{"id":7813,"date":"2016-08-23T00:12:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2019-08-13T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:30:09","slug":"seminar-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts-july-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/seminar-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts-july-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (July 1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>3. &#8220;Technical Literature and Its Form and Layout<br \/>\nin Early Medieval Manuscripts&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7812 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg-208x300.png\" alt=\"Invitation to 'Technical Literature' Seminar on 13 July 1991\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg-104x150.png 104w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg.png 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts<br \/>\nThe Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge<br \/>\n(13 April 1990)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/7814\"><strong>Invitation<\/strong><\/a> in pdf.<\/p>\n<p>The previous seminar in the series considered<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/seminar-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts-september-1990\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCorpus Christi College MS 139&#8243;<\/a> A Twelfth-Century Historical Miscellany<br \/>\n(Parker Library, September 1990)<\/p>\n<p>[<em>First published on 22 August 2016<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be some informal presentations on aspects of the subject, followed by a general examination of various manuscripts.&#8221;\u00a0 Among them are volumes containing works by Martianus Capella, Alcuin, Aristotle, Boethius, Priscian, Bede, and others.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The speakers and their subjects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Marenbom<\/strong>:\u00a0 logical treatises<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vivien Law<\/strong>:\u00a0 grammatical works<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leslie French<\/strong>:\u00a0 mathematical texts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As promised in the invitation, we considered a variety of texts and layout at first hand.<\/p>\n<p>We examined:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100630160653\/http:\/\/parkerweb.stanford.edu\/parker\/actions\/manuscript_description_long_display.do?ms_no=206\" target=\"_blank\">MS 206<\/a> (collection of dialectical and theological texts)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100629041817\/http:\/\/parkerweb.stanford.edu\/parker\/actions\/manuscript_description_long_display.do?ms_no=153\" target=\"_blank\">MS 153<\/a> (Martianus Capella&#8217;s <em>De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii<\/em> and <em>De Martiano<\/em>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160430101753\/https:\/\/parkerweb.stanford.edu\/parker\/actions\/manuscript_description_long_display.do?ms_no=449\" target=\"_blank\">MS 449<\/a> (\u00c6lfric&#8217;s<em> Grammar<\/em> and <em>Glossary<\/em>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160430101753\/https:\/\/parkerweb.stanford.edu\/parker\/actions\/manuscript_description_long_display.do?ms_no=449\" target=\"_blank\">MS 144<\/a> (glossaries and fragments of Priscian&#8217;s <em>Institutiones Grammaticae<\/em>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100630125321\/http:\/\/parkerweb.stanford.edu\/parker\/actions\/manuscript_description_long_display.do?ms_no=221\" target=\"_blank\">MS 221<\/a> (Alcuin&#8217;s and Bede&#8217;s <em>Orthographiae<\/em>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100701123533\/http:\/\/parkerweb.stanford.edu\/parker\/actions\/manuscript_description_long_display.do?ms_no=352\" target=\"_blank\">MS 352<\/a> (Boethius&#8217; <em>De institutione arithmetica<\/em>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100629203028\/http:\/\/parkerweb.stanford.edu\/parker\/actions\/manuscript_description_long_display.do?ms_no=291\" target=\"_blank\">MS 291<\/a> (Bede&#8217;s <em>De temporum ratione<\/em> and other computistical texts)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100629172636\/http:\/\/parkerweb.stanford.edu\/parker\/actions\/manuscript_description_long_display.do?ms_no=260\" target=\"_blank\">MS 260<\/a> (musical texts)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6497 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Front Covers for Volumes I &amp; II of 'Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: An Illustrated Catalogue' by Mildred Budny, with the title of the publication and the gold-stamped logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, co-publisher of the volumes\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>[<em>Note:<\/em>\u00a0 In time, all but one of these manuscripts came to figure in the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\">Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> (2 volumes, 1997) emanating from the long-term, integrated research work on selected Anglo-Saxon and related manuscripts at The Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.\u00a0 (The stages of the research work are recorded, for example, in the Annual Reports to the Leverhulme Trust, described in our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\">Publications<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The manuscripts are:<\/p>\n<p>MS 206 = <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\">Budny<\/a> Number 16<br \/>\nMS 153 = <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\">Budny<\/a> Number 7<br \/>\nMS 144 = <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\">Budny<\/a> Numbers 6 and 56<br \/>\nMS 221, Part I = <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\">Budny<\/a> Number 15<br \/>\nMS 352 = <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\">Budny<\/a> Number 20<br \/>\nMS 291 = <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\">Budny<\/a> Number 49]<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Invitations were sent to:<\/p>\n<p>David Wilson, Mildred Budny, Tim Graham, Leslie French, Christine Fell, R.I. Page, Vivien Law, John Marenbon, Charles Burnett, Patrick Wormald, Malcolm Godden, Donald Bullough, David Ganz, Simon Keynes, Catherine Hall, and Christopher Page.<\/p>\n<p>Present:<\/p>\n<p>[[<br \/>\nDavid Wilson, Mildred Budny, Tim Graham, Leslie French, Christine Fell, R.I. Page, Vivien Law, John Marenbon, Charles Burnett, Patrick Wormald, Malcolm Godden, Donald Bullough, David Ganz, Simon Keynes, Catherine Hall, and Christopher Page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7812 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg.png\" alt=\"Invitation to 'Technical Literature' Seminar on 13 July 1991\" width=\"582\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg.png 582w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg-104x150.png 104w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Technical-Literature-Seminar-13-July-1991-Invitation.-with-borderjpg-208x300.png 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>The next Seminar considered <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/workshop-on-medieval-manuscripts-october-1991\/\">\u201cThe Production, Make-up and Handling of Medieval Manuscripts\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n(Parker Library, October 1991).<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3. &#8220;Technical Literature and Its Form and Layout in Early Medieval Manuscripts&#8221; In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (13 April 1990) Invitation in pdf. The previous seminar in the series considered \u201cCorpus Christi College MS 139&#8243; A Twelfth-Century Historical Miscellany (Parker Library, September 1990) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,7,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12115,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions\/12115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}