Mission & Activities Log in Archives Featured Posts Mission Principles and Practices The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence exists to apply an interlinked comprehensive approach to manuscripts and texts in other forms through the ages. Our work began on medieval Western European manuscripts and early modern printed books in specific collections but over the years our research work and our mission have expanded to embrace a wider body of written and other sources from the Antique world to the present. Manuscripts and Other Evidence The Research Group considers these and many related materials simultaneously as carriers of text archaeological artefacts works of art layers of history and monuments of culture. The Group seeks to examine record and analyze the evidence of these witnesses of history life thought art and culture and to set their testimony in context.