Textus et Pictura V will take place on 11-13 April 2024 at the Nikolaus Copernicus University Library in Toruń. This year, the focus is on book-blocks, collections and miscellanea. Some sessions and lectures are in English (see the poster below). The conference is co-organised by the Department of Fine Arts UMK, the University Library in Toruń and the Institute for the History of Science, Polish Adacemy of Sciences.
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. .
Following the online webinar Chaucer Here and Now (March 14), the Bodleian Library will present medieval manuscripts from its collection during an online lecture ‘The hooly blisful martir for to seke’. Manuscripts with Chaucer’s pilgrims. The meeting will take place on Monday 25 March 2024 at 4.30–5.30pm (GMT). The archivists, Dr Alison Ray (St Peter’s College) and Dr Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library), “will explore the new iconography that developed after Thomas Becket’s murder, the impact of his death on Oxford’s religious houses and how Canterbury became a significant pilgrimage destination”. Booking information is available at the Bodleian Library events.