Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts SIGLUM extends an invitation to an online lecture by Prof. Anna Wojtyś (University of Warsaw), entitled Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe: text, manuscripts, and traps for the translator. The meeting will take place on 28 May 2024 at 17:00-18:30 CET via Zoom. To register for the meeting please contact us at siglum@wn.uw.edu.pl. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe is a text that earned him the title of “the first technical writer in English” (Basquin 1981: 19). The treatise is assumed to have been written with great clarity, which is consistent with the assumed reader being a boy of the “tendre age of .x. yer.” Hence, the presence of repetitions, similes, explication, […]
Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts SIGLUM extends an invitation to an online lecture by Prof. Anna Wojtyś (University of Warsaw), entitled Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe: text, manuscripts, and traps for the translator. The meeting will take place on 28 May 2024 at 17:00-18:30 CET via Zoom. To register for the meeting please contact us at siglum@wn.uw.edu.pl.
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.
A webinar on the themes of Chaucer Here and Now will take place on Thursday 14 March 2024 at 5pm–6pm GMT (6pm-7pm CET) via Zoom. Professor Marion Turner will talk about manuscripts and printed books from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first and discuss some of the ways in which readers of Chaucer have responded to and reimagined Chaucer’s works. The webinar will feature some of the Bodleian’s treasures shown under the visualiser. This event takes place online via Zoom. Tickets are free, and booking is required via Bodleian Library events.