Between the 4th and 6th of September, 2024, several Siglum members took part in a conference ‘Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter, which focused on the current research into a long-lost medieval psalter from England. In this ongoing project, we have been looking for answers to the oldest questions of philology which center around the proper arrangement and content of a text and also the historical development of language. To do this, we have been aided by state-of-the-art research methods which include digital reconstruction as well as physical and chemical analyses of ink, pigments and parchment. Research […]
On 25 October 2024 at 18.00 CEST (12.00 EDT), dr Suzette van Haaren (Ruhr-Universität Bochum & 2023-2024 SIMS Visiting Research Fellow) will give an online lecture on Modelling the Middle Ages: VisColl as a Digital Tool for Manuscript Research in the Schoenberg Institute’s Online Lecture series. Dr. Suzette van Haaren will present the results of her research on using the VisColl tool in the study of early books. She will talk about the daily research practices of manuscript professionals in digital environments and how this works affects the way that they look at their research objects. For further details and […]
The last meeting in 2024 seminar cycle Meetings with the Psalms and Psalters will take place on Thursday, 17 October 2024, at 18:00 on Zoom. Our guest speaker, Dr Sophia Dege-Müller (Hamburg University) will talk about Ethiopian and Eritrean psalters. Meeting participants can register via this link: go.nd.edu/f087f5 (a very simple process in which we are supported by the Nanovic Institute at the University of Notre Dame, US). For further details on the series, see the Nanovic Institute website.