Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
- Come join us this Saturday at 1pm EST for our next Episode in "the Research Group Speaks" series, Ep. 22: "Encounters with Local Saints and Their Cults: Traces in Prose, Poetry, and Relics” manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/episode...
- We invite you to join our 2026 Annual Appeal. Donations of any amount can directly support the work and mission of our nonprofit educational organization powered principally by volunteers, supported by your donations. We give thanks for your support. manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-an...
- Congratulations for all our contributors to the successful RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments this past weekend! They shone with expert reports of discoveries, projects, and work-in-progress about fragments in manuscript and early-printed forms. Hurray! manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
- See you all soon!
- Up next: manuscriptevidence.org//wpme/2025-r... "Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books", 21-23 November (hybrid at Princeton and online). Experts, students, collectors, lovers of books look at fragments. Join us!
- Up next: manuscriptevidence.org//wpme/2025-r... "Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books", 21-23 November (hybrid at Princeton and online). Experts, students, collectors, lovers of books look at fragments. Join us!
- In this article rebooting the @ransomcenter.bsky.social's series on Not Even Past, @utaustin.bsky.social English Ph.D. student Kōan Brink writes about a surprising find in the gutters of a new acquisition: "The Chopped-Up Second Life of a Coverdale Bible." notevenpast.org/primary-sour...
- Happening this Friday!
- Next Week: We invite you all to the RGME 2025 Autumn Symposium, "Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Books: From Page to Marketplace and Beyond". This event will be held online October 17-19; more details and registration found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
- Next Week: We invite you all to the RGME 2025 Autumn Symposium, "Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Books: From Page to Marketplace and Beyond". This event will be held online October 17-19; more details and registration found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
- #lists We admire Michael Hensley's work on book lists. He spoke about it for our 2025 Spring Symposium, and we are eager to learn more. #historyoflibraries
- With the start of September, we mention the CFP deadline of 15 September for your proposals for our sessions at #kazoo2026 ( #2026icms ) and #imc2026 at Leeds. manuscriptevidence.org/2026-interna...
- #kzoo2026 CFP: this year the RGME is co-sponsoring 5 sessions at next year's ICMS- more details and portals for submissions on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in...
- CFP: the RGME is sponsoring a session for #imc2026 called "Manuscripts at Play and as Play: Temporalities and (Re)Configurations as Reading Methods". Send us your proposals! manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in...
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- Restorations, with thanks to our Associate, Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social
- More Is More, Wayback Machine Style for British Library Online, Hindsight Included. With thanks to our Associate, @carinr.bsky.social
- Join us on Monday online for the next RGME Friends' Meeting. "Food for Thought" = Fairy Tales and Cookbooks. We explore realms of imagination and nourishment, as we look at books for a lifetime/lifeline and prepare our Community Cookbook. Interested? See manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/meeting...
- Two exceptional manuscripts from the collection of Museum Plantin-Moretus are officially recognized as Flemish Masterpieces! These rare and irreplaceable works now receive special protection from the Flemish government. 🎉 /1 #earlymodern #rarebooks #medievalmanuscript #bookhistory 💙📚📜
- This is Day 1 for RGME sessions at the #2025imc. Great sessions! We give thanks to organizers, speakers, panelists, advisers, audiences in-person and online, and the IMC staff. manuscriptevidence.org/2025-interna...
- The next installment of the DMSI visits the University of Leeds in time for the 2025 IMC! You can still register for it. Well worthwhile!
- With thanks to the IMC! #IMC2025
- #IMC2025 is fast approaching, and we are very excited this year to be sponsoring four sessions as well as a roundtable. We'll see you there! A detailed overview of the session programs are found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-in...
- #IMC2025 is fast approaching, and we are very excited this year to be sponsoring four sessions as well as a roundtable. We'll see you there! A detailed overview of the session programs are found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-in...
- Greetings for the summer solstice!
- We thank Dana Delibovi for her thoughtful blogpost on translations of Boethius in English through the ages.
- More Is More, Scientific Style, Manuscripts in Switzerland Included.
- Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science! What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA? Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog
- Have a Look! The next episode for our series for "The Research Group Speaks" happens online on Saturday 21 June. We explore "Learning to Look". manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/episode...
