The Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop is a forum for informal discussion on medieval script and scribal practices, and on the presentation, circulation and reception of texts in their manuscript contexts. Each workshop focuses upon a particular issue, usually explored through one or more informal presentations and general discussion. All are welcome.

Friday 28 April 2017, 2-4pm, Faculty of English (West Road), Room SR24

Analyzing scribal technique: the perspective of a practitioner

An informal workshop on scribal techniques in the writing of the formal book-script, littera textualis, in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, led by the scribe, Paul Antonio, focusing upon examples from the composite music manuscript, the Montpellier Codex (Montpellier, Bibliothèque de Médecine, H 196).

Friday 5 May 2017, 2-4pm Faculty of English (West Road), Room SR24

Late-medieval manuscript dissemination

Dr Phil Knox (Trinity College, Cambridge; Faculty of English) ‘Tracking manuscripts of the Roman de la rose in late-medieval Britain: approaches and problems’

Friday 12 May 2017, 2-4 pm Cambridge University Library (Milstein Seminar Room), 2-4pm

Analyzing parchment and binding structures: the perspective of a conservator

An informal workshop on parchment and binding structures of medieval manuscripts in the University Library, led by Edward Cheese, informed by his observations while working on these manuscripts as a conservator.

Convenors: Teresa Webber, Orietta Da Rold, Suzanne Paul, Sean Curran and David Ganz

For further details, email mtjw2@cam.ac.uk

Monday 30 January, 12.30-2

Milstein Exhibition Centre/Seminar Room, University Library

A guided tour of the Cambridge University Library exhibition ‘Curious Objects’, in the company of lead curator Jill Whitelock, followed by discussion.

Places are limited–please email jes1003 to reserve.

Monday 6 March, 12.30-2

Milstein Seminar Room, University Library

‘The Medical Book in the Nineteenth Century: From MS Casebooks to Mass Plagiarism’
A workshop led by Sarah Bull, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, HPS

Wednesday 19th October, 12-30-2, Board Room, Faculty of English

Matthew Symonds (University College London/CELL) will introduce the Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe Project and the new Digital Bookwheel (http://www.bookwheel.org/viewer/)

Wednesday 16th November, day symposium

‘Scribal Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe’ (Trinity Hall/Magdalene)

Convenors: Dr Alexander Marr and Professor Sachiko Kusukawa

A workshop organised by project members from Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science and Making Visible: The visual and graphic practices of the early Royal Society. 

Speakers include Professor Peter Stallybrass, Dr Jonathan Gibson, Dr Jan Loop, Dr Angus Vine and Dr Andrew Zurcher.

Wednesday 30 November, 12.30-2, Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington St

A guided tour of the Fitzwilliam exhibition ‘Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts’, in the company of the curator Dr Stella Panayotova.

Places are limited–please email Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003) if you would like to come.

The Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop is a forum for informal discussion on medieval script and scribal practices, and on the presentation, circulation and reception of texts in their manuscript contexts. Each workshop focuses upon a particular issue, usually explored through one or more informal presentations and general discussion. All are welcome. Easter Term meetings will take place in the Milstein Seminar Room, Cambridge University Library between 2-4 PM.

Friday 6 May 2016.

Dr. Irene Ceccherini: ‘The Network of Cursive Handwriting: Late Medieval Italian Notaries, Merchants, Scribes and Scholars between Documents and Books’

Friday 20 May 2016.

Dr. Katya Chernakova: Title To Be Announced.

Dr. Eyal Poleg: ‘The Late Medieval Bible’

Friday 27 May 2016.

Professor David Ganz: ‘When is a ‘Script’ not Several Scribes?’

For more information, see the attached poster.

Convenors: Teresa Webber, Orietta Da Rold, Suzanne Paul, Sean Curran and David Ganz. For further details, email Orietta Da Rold (od245@cam.ac.uk)

Thursdays at 5 pm

28 April–Current Med/Ren MPhil students will discuss their textual studies projects.

Venue: Milstein Seminar Room, CUL

12 May–Ian Gadd (Bath Spa), ‘Errant commas, absent pages, and shifting typos: the strange bibliographical world of Jonathan Swift’s English political works’

Venue: Keynes Room, CUL

Seminars in the History of Material Texts

Thursdays at 5 pm

4 February–Kate Kennedy (Oxford), ‘Appealing for Release: Ivor Gurney’s ‘mad’ asylum letters’

Venue: Milstein Seminar Room, CUL

18 February–Mina Gorji (Cambridge), ‘Lyric and Ephemera: Rossetti’s Sing-Song’

Venue: S-R24, Faculty of English

3 March–James Mussell (Leeds), ‘Moving Things: Replication, Mediation, and Serialisation in Charles Dickens’s Mugby Junction‘

Venue: S-R24, Faculty of English

Seminars in the History of Material Texts

Thursdays at 5 pm

15 October–Discussion of Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 45/3 (2015), ‘The Renaissance Collage’

Venue: Milstein Seminar Room, CUL

This special issue is available online at http://jmems.dukejournals.org/content/current

29 October–Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University), ‘Listening readers and the visible voice’

Venue: S-R24, Faculty of English

12 November–Catherine Ansorge (University Library), ‘Ink and gold; how the Islamic manuscripts came to Cambridge’

Venue: Milstein Seminar Room, CUL

26 November–Vittoria Feola (University of Padua/University of Oxford),  ‘The Bartolomeo Gamba Project – or, the London-Paris-Padua book trade connection, 1600-1840′.

Venue: Milstein Seminar Room, CUL

Seminars in the History of Material Texts

Thursdays at 5.30 pm, SR-24 (second floor), Faculty of English, 9 West Rd

30 April–Jaclyn Rajsic (University of Cambridge)

‘The Rolling Text: using space in royal genealogies, c. 1300-c. 1450’.

14 May — Stacey McDowell (University of Cambridge)

‘Keats’s Reading’

All welcome.

Seminars in the History of Material Texts

Thursdays at 5.30 pm, SR-24 (second floor), Faculty of English, 9 West Rd

22 January– William Zachs (University of Edinburgh)

‘Authenticity and Duplicity: Investigations into Multiple Copies of Books’ NB This session will be held in the Milstein Lecture Room, University Library, and will start at 5 pm.

5 February — Victoria Mills (University of Cambridge)

‘Travel Writing and Tactile Tourism: The Tauchnitz Edition of The Marble Faun’

19 February — Leslie James (University of Birmingham)

‘Transatlantic Passages: journalistic technique and the construction of a black international in West African and Caribbean colonial newspapers’

All welcome.

A series of three seminars, on Wednesdays at 5pm in GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road.

This series will discuss the practices and principles of editing nineteenth-century literary works. Hosted jointly by the Centre for Material Texts and the Faculty of English, it includes classes on different types of editions and their specific editorial challenges.

Wednesday 21st January

Some Varieties of Editing

Prof. Dame Gillian Beer (Clare Hall)

Wednesday 4th February

Working with Manuscripts: Examples from W. B. Yeats and Gerard Manley Hopkins

Dr Catherine Phillips (Downing)

Wednesday 18th February

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry: Editing a Variorum Edition

Prof. Nora Crook (Anglia Ruskin)

All welcome.