2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium (IN PERSON): Workshop 1 of 2 (21 November)

By invitation, this special 2025 Autumn Colloquium brings the RGME tradition of hybrid events to Special Collections at Princeton University.

THIS REGISTRATION PORTAL is for Attendance IN PERSON on Friday afternoon 21 November 2025, for one or two (repeated) Workshops on Fragments at Special Collections. Space is Limited. (For ONLINE Attendance, see below.)

Note: Given the different venues, and the combination of IN PERSON and ONLINE formats for HYBRID COMPONENTS, there are different Registration Portals for Online Attendance.

• See our RGME Eventbrite Collection of Events for this Colloquium:
  https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/rgme-colloquia-4710273

2) Friday Afternoon 21 November (at Special Collections, Firestone Library, Princeton University)
3) Friday Reception (at Princeton Univerity)

THIS REGISTRATION PORTAL is for Attendance IN PERSON on Friday afternoon 21 November 2025.
Please see our other portal to register for Attendance ONLINE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-break-up-books-make-up-books-online-tickets-1287377804669

Plan for the Workshops

With the presentations and related activities planned for this event, "Break-Up Books" meet "Make-Up Books". The special Workshops are designed to compliment the sessions devoted to explorations of the phenomena of widely dispersed remnants of dismembered manuscripts and other written materials scattered at the hands of Otto F. Ege (1888-1951)and other biblioclasts, for a variety of purposes more and less laudable.

The sessions showcase work being done in various centers and by many individuals on these materials, as part of long-term, laborious, significant, and sometimes dispersed research, which seeks to identify, reclaim, and insofar as possibly, virtually reconstrict the originals and place them in context. The Workshops exhibit some original materials in Special Collections of Princeton University Library, guided by Eric M. White, Sheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts.

We invite you to choose one of the two Workshops, which form two sittings with the same or similar materials. Workshop 1 at 1:30-3:00 or Workshop 2 at 3:30-5:00 pm EST (GMT-5).

After the Workshops, there follows a Reception hosted by the Friends of the Princeton University Library (for which there is no charge).

THIS REGISTRATION PORTAL IS FOR WORKSHOP 1 IN PERSON.

For Registration for WORKSHOP 2 IN Person (3:30-5:00 pm EST), see its portal:

Registration/Donation

If you wish to attend only one of the Workshops during the entire Colloquium, we ask a nominal fee to help defray our RGME expenses in organizing them and providing their hybrid access. There is no charge for attending the hosted Reception which follows the Workshops, generously hosted by the FPUL.

When you register, we ask if you might please add the Eventbrite handling fee for the transaction, as a contribution to the RGME's costs for this event.

We also encourage you to consider adding a Voluntary Donation in support of the RGME, a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization principally powered by volunteers and your contributions. Your donation may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent provided by law. Our low overheads mean that your donations directly support our operations and activities.

Thank you for your support and your interest in the Colloquium. We look forward to welcoming you.

Information

On this event, see:
https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-on-fragments/

Image:

Princeton University Library, 7927, recto.Test sheet with patterns, sketches, and pen-trials. Northern Italy, circa1400.