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<\/a>In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts<\/a>\nThe Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
\n(12 October 1991)
\nInvitation<\/strong><\/a> in pdf.<\/p>\n
The previous Seminar in the series considered (A Workshop on “The Production, Make-Up and Handling of Medieval Manuscripts”<\/a> An earlier Seminar considered a related theme: *****<\/p>\n The Invitation explains the plan, reports the speakers and their subjects, invites discussion from the participants, and sets out a provisional list of manuscripts available for consultation.<\/p>\n The subject will be:\u00a0 sixteenth-century transcripts of Anglo-Saxon texts.\u00a0 Those of us engaged in editing Anglo-Saxon texts find them an important source for our subject.\u00a0 They appear within a number of manuscripts at the Parker Library, in the hands of Matthew Parker<\/a>, others within his circle and other scholars and antiquaries.<\/p>\n Simon Keynes will speak about his examination of the manuscript transmission of Asser’s Life of King Alfred<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Patrick Wormald will address the patterns of transmission and recovery of vernacular legal texts.<\/p>\n We hope that other members of the seminar will contribute to the discussion from their own experience with sixteenth-century or Anglo-Saxon sources.<\/p>\n As for the original sources, “manuscripts will be available for examination as a focus for discussion.” \u00a0 Among them:<\/p>\n “Other manuscripts may also emerge as they occur to us in the course of the session.”<\/p>\n Holding an axe at rest and a rolled scroll at the ready. Statue of King Alfred the Great in the Market Place at Wantage, Oxfordshire. Photograph by Steve Daniels via Wikipedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n Invitations sent to:<\/p>\n David Wilson, Mildred Budny, Christine Fell, R.I. Page, Patrick Wormald, Simon Keynes, Tim Graham, Leslie French, Patrick Collinson, Nigel Wilkins, Catherine Hall, Della Hooke, Robin Alsten, Nigel Ramsay, Bill Stoneman, Malcolm Godden, Stuart Lee, and Nicholas Vincent.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n The next Seminar in the Series considered<\/p>\n A later Seminar considered a related theme:<\/p>\n
\n“Technical Literature and its Form and Layout in Early Medieval Manuscripts”<\/a>
\nParker Library, July 1991<\/p>\n
\nintervened on 5 October 1991.)<\/p>\n
\n“Sixteenth-Century Interventions in Anglo-Saxon and Related Manuscripts”<\/a>
\nParker Library, April 1990<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n“Corpus Christi College MS 383:
\nAn Anglo-Saxon Legal Codex of the Late Eleventh or Early Twelfth Century”<\/a>
\nParker Library, November 1991<\/h3>\n