***** The Reports in Our Annual Reports (1989–1994) Some interesting manuscript structures included. Anyway, this report tells a little of How It Was. If, as more years go by, and you come, perhaps, to see what those who came before you might have had to encounter, endure, and, perhaps, overcome, in order to pursue some goals that seemed worth seeking, and if you might come to revise your disdain, contempt, or, at best, disinterest, then, please, let us know. And who continue to pay dearly for the chance to continue to contribute in some or any way. Slow, but you who laugh and dismiss, please remember, when or if you manage to grow old, there were some before you who held a refined sense about how we Stand in the Now.
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Now, finally able to prepare the report for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and its website, I resume the process of recording more of our history, from the Analogue to the Digital Ages. A couple of years ago, when searching online for information and updates about that project, I found several links both from that time and from its results. We also wonder at the absence now (September 2016) of much trace readily upon the World Wide Web of much of anything concerning all that work and effort. (That would qualify as a “Prequel”.) For this Report, we focus upon the work then. That connection or association goes farther back into the history of manuscript studies and participation in the workshops or seminars of other organisations in Southern England (London and Oxford especially) well before the formation of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence or even the centring, for a while, upon the manuscript materials at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Always glad to celebrate the work of manuscript studies, from wherever the dedication may emerge.Īdmiration for, and Interest in, that Surveyįrom the beginning, when we learned of Jenny Sheppard’s interest in the project, we wished to support that aim however possible. Thus we may assess the Group’s activities both for its own research projects and in support of others’. ‘Census of Western Medieval Bookbinding Structures to 1500 in British and Irish Libraries’, Journal of the Society of Archivists, 13:1 ( 2009), pages 29–30Ī worthy project, and we are glad to have witnessed stages in its creation.Īs part of the work now of recording the early history of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence for our website, we enter the Archives, survey their range, and report some of their materials.‘Describing Medieval Binding Structures: Experiences of a Census-Taker’, Rare Books Newsletter, 57 (Winter 1997), 57–70.Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1992, edited by Linda L. “Some Twelfth-Century Monastic Bindings and the Question of Localization”, in Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production.Some milestones along the journey, recorded in publications by Jennifer M. A list of her published works, including reports about this project, can be found here: Sheppard, Jennifer Mary.
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(Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, Bodleian Library, 1997). Among the results of that aim was the publication of her detailed study of The Buildwas books: Book production, acquisition and use at an English Cistercian monastery, 1165-c.1400. Sheppard of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, became a large-scale project for identifying and recording the corpus of Medieval Binding Structures to A.D.
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Preserved in the British Isles Plus Continuing LinksĪt early stages, members of the Research Team both at the Parker Library (from 1989–1994) and in its 5-year Leverhulme Trust Research Project (1 October 1989 – 30 September 1994) participated in the discussions and some in-house research which, among other contributions, explored the ground for a survey of medieval binding structures in the British Isles.
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(1989–1990) for the Census of Medieval Binding Structures to A.D.