On Friday, March 22, 12:00 – 13:30 EDT (via Zoom), Nicholas Herman (Lawrence J. Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts at SIMS), will introduce BASIRA, a web-based open-access database of depictions of books and other textual documents in the figurative arts between approximately 1300 to 1600 CE. More information and registration details are available at The Schoenberg Institute events .

Note: on Monday, 18 March at 17:00-18:00 (CET) Zofia Załęska from Siglum will talk about the BASIRA project during an online presentation in Polish.

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