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Initial C<\/em> of Concede<\/em>. Detail from a leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 15’, the ‘Beauvais Missal’. Otto Ege Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Photograph by Lisa Fagin Davis. Reproduced by Permission<\/p><\/div>\n

Words & Deeds<\/h1>\n

Actions Enacted, Re-Enacted & Restored<\/h3>\n

From Late-Antique Theater to the Legacy of Otto Ege
\nby way of, inter alia<\/em>, Saint-Denis and Gutenberg<\/p>\n

A Symposium of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/h3>\n

Friday & Saturday, 25\u201326 March 2016<\/span>
\n 106 McCormick Hall<\/span>
\n Princeton University<\/span><\/h4>\n

Sponsors<\/h4>\n

The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
\nThe Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
\nThe Index of Christian Art at Princeton University
\nJames Marrow & Emily Rose
\nBarbara A. Shailor
\nThe Samuel H. Kress Foundation
\nThe Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<\/h5>\n

We announce a Symposium to be held at Princeton University on 25 & 26 March 2016.\u00a0 Organized by our Director, Mildred Budny, this event launches our activities for 2016.\u00a0 Next in line come our Sessions and Activities<\/a>, both sponsored and co-sponsored, at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies in May.<\/p>\n

[Update: Now see the Symposium Report<\/a>, and the downloadable illustrated Program Booklet<\/a> with the Abstracts of Papers, set in RGME Bembino<\/a> and laid out according to our Style Manifesto<\/a>.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Themes & Variations<\/h3>\n
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Illustrated initial T<\/em> for Tobias<\/em> with Tobias and the Angel, on a leaf from ‘Otto Ege MS 44 (FOL 44)’, Volume I of a Lectern Bible made in Germany, Austria, or Bohemia, and dated 1507. Otto Ege Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Photograph courtesy Lisa Fagin Davis. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n

Our symposium engages with the realms of documents, seals, seal matrices, and other means of authentications or attestations, regarding deeds in material forms as well as deeds in action.\u00a0 Chronicles, biographies, and other narratives (both real and imagined) have their part in the story, too, along with illustrations of events and inscriptions in a variety of media.\u00a0 The interrelationship, or tensions, between words and events come into focus as well.\u00a0 The span for consideration welcomes a range of dates, languages, regions, materials, forms of activities, and interactions \u2013 harmonious or otherwise.<\/p>\n

Likewise, we address issues posed by objects which carry within the confines of their present borders most of the evidence, apparently, to reveal their purposes through words and\/or images.\u00a0 Such is the case, poignantly, given the vagaries of history (from whatever causes, natural or not), with fragments dispersed from former whole objects or groups of objects, from collections or sites to individual monuments.<\/p>\n

The sessions will focus on these and other predicaments, challenges, and opportunities.<\/p>\n

For example, some speakers focus on the complex achievements of the Abbey of Saint-Denis<\/a> in its creation of an exceptional identity.\u00a0 Others celebrate the research and discoveries facing the study and recovery of manuscript remnants from the collection of Otto F. Ege<\/a>, especially the trove newly acquired from his descendants at the Beinecke Library<\/a> of Yale University.\u00a0 Approaches to assessing, representing, and understanding the material evidence of manuscripts in digital forms are surveyed also in reports on new developments at The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Subjects for consideration range from the evidence for experiencing the theater in Late-Antiquity and the paradox of ‘deadly love’ in Western Christian Medieval liturgy, through amulets and sealed medieval deeds, to the lost Hortus deliciarum<\/em><\/a> (‘Garden of Delights’), the bronze doors of Abbot Suger<\/a> at Saint-Denis, and papal indulgences printed on the Gutenberg<\/a> press before the Gutenberg Bible<\/a>. A Round Table discussion will explore experts’ experiences and views about these and related issues.<\/p>\n

Speakers, Moderators & Panelists <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Charles E. Barber<\/a> (Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University)
\nElizabeth A.R. Brown<\/a> (The City University of New York Emerita)
\nMildred Budny<\/a> (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
\nSarah Celentano<\/a> (Art and Art History Department, University of Texas at Austin)
\nCelia Chazelle<\/a> (Department of History, The College of New Jersey)
\nRaymond Clemens<\/a> (Beinecke Library, Yale University)
\nGiles Constable<\/a> (School of Historical Studies Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study)
\nLisa Fagin Davis<\/a> (The Medieval Academy of America)
\nJessie Dummer<\/a> (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries)
\nCatherine Fernandez<\/a> (Index of Christian Art)
\nPaula Gerson<\/a> (Department of Art History, Florida State University Emerita)
\nBeatrice Kitzinger<\/a> (Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University)
\nGenevra Kornbluth<\/a> (Kornbluth Photography)
\nKarl F. Morrison<\/a> (Rutgers University Emeritus)
\nPamela Patton<\/a> (Index of Christian Art)
\nKatherine Philbin<\/a> (Simmons College)
\nDot Porter<\/a> (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies)
\nLynn Ransom<\/a> (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies)
\nHenry Schilb<\/a> (Index of Christian Art)
\nBarbara A. Shailor (Yale University)
\n<\/a>Alan M. Stahl<\/a> (Firestone Library, Princeton University)
\n<\/a>Thomas G. Waldman<\/a> (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania)
\n<\/a>Andrew Walker-White<\/a> (School of Arts and Science, Stratford University)
\n<\/a>Eric White<\/a> (Firestone Library, Princeton University)<\/a><\/p>\n

Times & Directions<\/h3>\n

The event is announced on the Current Calendar<\/a> of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University, with a Provisional Program. The updated Program can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sessions will take place in 106 McCormick Hall<\/a>, on the ground floor. On Friday, with breaks for coffee\/tea and lunch, the Sessions will run from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, followed by a Reception from 5:50 to 7:00 pm in the Index of Christian Art<\/a>, also located in McCormick Hall, on the lower floor.\u00a0 Lunch on Friday will take place in the 3rd Floor Lounge at McCormick Hall, at a charge of $10 per person.\u00a0 The Sessions on Saturday, with a break for coffee\/tea, will run from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm.\u00a0 All are welcome.<\/p>\n

Resources online for planning your visit to Princeton, including directions, public transportation, parking, and campus maps, appear here<\/a>. We look forward to seeing you.<\/p>\n

Please let us know if you will attend. You could Contact Us<\/a> via director@manuscriptevidence.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Exhibition<\/h3>\n

An accompanying exhibition, curated by Jessica Savage<\/a> (Index of Christian Art), will display newly selected materials from the archives of Charles Rufus Morey<\/a> at the Index of Christian Art<\/a>.\u00a0 It focuses on ‘Words & Deeds of Charles Rufus Morey at the American Embassy in Rome (1945\u20131950)’.\u00a0 Exhibition Notes will appear in the Symposium Program Booklet.<\/p>\n

The exhibition can be viewed during the open hours of the Index, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Mondays to Fridays, and during the Reception for our Symposium (5:30 to 7:00 pm on Friday 25 March).<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Thanks<\/strong><\/p>\n

We give thanks to the Hosts, Sponsors, Advisers, Organizer, and Contributors!<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Previews<\/h3>\n

As the Symposium approaches, we offer some background to highlight the subjects which speakers and panelists will address.\u00a0 First:<\/p>\n

A Note on the Otto Ege Connection<\/h4>\n
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The illustrated opening initial P<\/em> for Pauci<\/em>, with the scribal author Jerome, plus lion, on a leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 35’, made in France in the mid 15th-century. Otto Ege Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Liibrary, Yale University. Photograph by Lisa Fagin Davis. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n

Perhaps you have heard of the manuscripts collected by Otto F. Ege<\/a>? Are you wondering about the Ege Manuscripts and their dispersal? Welcome to the club!<\/p>\n

Several blogposts last year by Mildred Budny for our Manuscript Studies<\/a> blog offer case studies for some of them, as part of our on-going work of conservation, photography, and research.<\/p>\n