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.
We are happy to invite you to a hybrid lecture “The art of bookbinding: micro-CT analysis of book structures — the case of Mary Stuart’s prayer book” by prof. Chiara Mazzocchi (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw) on Wednesday, 11 December 2024, at 5:00-6:30 pm. The meeting (in-person) will take place at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, room 2.62. To register for the Zoom meeting, please send an email to: siglum@wn.uw.edu.pl.
International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England extends an invitation for The Kemble Lecture 2024 by Prof. Elaine Treharne, Stanford University on ‘Mundane Matters: Early English Manuscripts, 700-1200, and the Aesthetics of the Ordinary’. This hybrid event will take place on Thursday 28 November 2024, at 5.30 pm (GMT). To register for the Zoom meeting, please go to: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkc-Cvpj0oEtUMQvyEigMkaGnX3pTgShSN
We are pleased to invite you to an online lecture by Prof. Jakub Kubieniec (Institute of Musicology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków) on behalf of the Project Team “The Early Music in Central Europe: Collaborative Research, Migrating Sources, Transregional Connections.” The meeting will take place on Thursday, December 5, at 4:00 p.m. To register for the meeting, use this link
