SIGLUM has been founded to carry out comprehensive research into manuscripts. It aims to promote the study of manuscripts and the development of different manuscript cultures through the ages. Our group was set up by a team of philologists in 2020 but it soon attracted other scholars, including historians, art historians, conservators, chemists, experts on the history of the book and paper production, linguists, literary critics, cultural experts, musicologists, archivists and librarians. Our research projects embrace manuscripts from different geographical and cultural regions and include both, early sources as well as contemporary handwritten documents. We share the passion for manuscripts and we recognize the need to study them in their manifold aspects and in an integrated way – as carriers of texts, works of art, monuments of culture, heritage of the past and material objects. The manuscripts we study come from various collections, such as Warsaw University Library, the National Library in Warsaw, departmental libraries and many other archives in Poland and abroad.
SIGLUM is an inclusive group, open to new people, projects and areas of research. We would like the manuscript studies to be a vital part of the academic universe. We hope that everyone who has thus far worked independently will join us so that SIGLUM can become a prominent research unit at the University of Warsaw. If you want to join us let us know by sending an email to siglum@wn.uw.edu.pl.
Call for applications for a winter course on Handwritten Text Recognition of Medieval Documents, including 3 Zoom online sessions (NOV 8 and 22, DEC 6) and a 3-day workshop in Vienna (DEC 18–20), is open until 15 September. The course will focus on applying textual transcription via Transcribus to Caroline Latin, late medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, Medieval Czech, Medieval German, and Syriac. For further details, see the poster below and the IMAFO website.
Call for papers is now open for the 4th Interdisciplinary Conference on Bookbinding Studies „Gothic in Poland and Europe”, organised by the Department of Print and Digital Media at the Institute of Information and Communication Research UMK/NCU in collaboration with the Provincial Public Library – Copernican Library in Torun, University Library in Torun, District Museum in Torun, State Archives in Torun and Diocesan Museum in Torun. The conference will take place on 13-14 December 2024 in the Old Town Hall in Toruń. Abstracts can be submitted by 1 November 2024. Further details and an application form are available from the conference website.
We kindly invite you to a two-day conference and workshop on the 11th-century N-Psalter from England. The conference, co-organised by the University of Warsaw and Leiden University, will take place on 4-5 September 2024 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. More details and a link to the registration form can be found at the conference website: Medieval Fragmentology. Conference programme is given below.
