And so, we held another Reception at the 2015 Congress, this time co-sponsored by<\/p>\n The Reception Invitation<\/strong> (shown here) is laid out in the RGME copyright font Bembino<\/strong>, with donated design layout according with our style principles, as expressed in our Style Manifesto<\/a> (now available in an illustrated version, updated for the Congress). This multilingual digital font is available for download, for FREE: Bembino<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Interesting combination for collaboration.\u00a0 The shared co-sponsorship emerged through a network of collaborations between individuals and organizations across the years.<\/p>\n Since 2006, the Societas Magica and the Research Group have co-sponsored Sessions at the annual Congress.\u00a0 Information about all those Sessions appears in our list of Co-Sponsored Sessions<\/strong><\/a>, with details of their programs and with the abstracts of many of their papers in our Congress Archive<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Since 2015, these Abstracts are also accessible through their Indexes By Author<\/a> and By Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since the early years of the presence of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence in Princeton, the Index of Christian Art has co-sponsored many of its Events, including Seminars, Workshops, Colloquia & Symposia<\/a>, both in Princeton and elsewhere. These collaborations are listed in our Events Archive<\/a>. To these Events and others, some of the staff of the Index has contributed, as speakers, moderators, participants, and advisers.\u00a0 The first of the co-sponsorships started already with the 1995 Symposium in the series of Annual Symposia on the Transmission of the Bible<\/a>.\u00a0 The tradition of collaboration continues to flourish from one Directorship of the Index to the next.<\/p>\n And so the combination of sponsors arose for this year’s Reception, continuing the new tradition for the Societas Magica and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, and introducing an opportunity for the Index of Christian Art to have a co-sponsored event at the Congress, during its year of transition between Directors.\u00a0 As a bonus, the Reception itself offered the opportunity to discover, in the conversations and questions, that some colleagues in the other organizations were engaged in research explorations that involved, or could involve, the resources of the Index, and vice versa.\u00a0 Nice!<\/p>\n The Reception gathered together Officers and Members<\/strong> of the Societas<\/strong>, Officers and Associates<\/strong><\/a> of the Research Group<\/strong>, new Friends and Volunteers<\/strong>, the Acting Director of the Index of Christian Art<\/strong> (also a Trustee of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence), and a number of subscribers of, visitors to, and potential subscribers to, its database.<\/p>\n Cause for celebration, indeed!<\/p>\n Solidarity<\/p><\/div>\n Greeting<\/p><\/div>\n We even had the opportunity to examine some original manuscript materials, brought by request.\u00a0 This pair of fragments, in Latin, was the earliest in date.\u00a0 We prepare a blogpost to report about its character.\u00a0 We like characters, letters included.<\/p>\n Photography by Mildred Budny and by David Sorenson<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n The success of this Reception, like last year’s, encourages us to hold a co-sponsored Reception also at the 2016 Congress Planning<\/a>. A room is booked and the time is assigned. Our co-sponsor is the Index of Christian Art<\/a> at Princeton University, now with a new Director and with plans to sponsor 2 Sessions of its own. Please join us if you can. All are welcome.<\/p>\n![\"Invitation](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RGME-Soc-Mag-Reception-2015-Full-Page-with-Fri-date-corrected-done1.png\")
<\/a>At the 2015 Congress, we continued the tradition of co-sponsoring a Reception.\u00a0 The tradition began with the 2014 Anniversary Reception, co-sponsored at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/strong> by the Societas Magica<\/strong> and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>, to celebrate the anniversaries of both organizations.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>The Reception gave the opportunity, with drinks, cupcakes, and conversation, to meet, greet, and thank the participants of our Congress Sessions over the years, as well as to admire the activities of our organizations, both individually and collaboratively, and to consider further courses of collaboration \u2014 sometimes unexpected, because customarily we might function as individual organizations, without being aware of the interests which our same colleagues may share. Only, perhaps, because, usually we focus upon the tasks in hand, and the sorts of specialities or themes which a given Session or Conference might call forth.\u00a0 And now we discover some other areas of keen interest shared between and across the collectives.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>Manuscripts, Even<\/h3>\n
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