Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts SIGLUM extends an invitation to a lecture by Dr. Dmitry Bondarev, entitled “Islamic manuscript cultures of West Africa”. The lecture will take place on April 30 2024, at 2:15-3:45 CET via Zoom. To register for the meeting, please contact us at siglum@wn.uw.edu.pl. Dr. Dmitry Bondarev will talk about the manuscript tradition of pre-colonial West Africa, almost unknown outside specialised circles. The manuscripts in question were made in Muslim intellectual and religious centers located in today’s Chad, Nigeria, Mali, Guinea and Senegal. In addition to Arabic, the manuscripts contain texts of various length in […]
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.
A collaborative volume Bon and Naxi Manuscripts, edited by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and Charles Rumble, which is the result of workshops at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures in 2016-2022, was published by De Gruyter in 2023. This is ‘the first primarily object-based study on the cultural history and technology of books from the Tibetan Bon and Naxi Dongba traditions’ which ‘discusses the relationship between text and image, writing materials, and the historical and archaeological context of the manuscripts’ places of origin.’ (CSMC news). The volume is available as open access and can be downoalded from the publisher’s website.