Penn State University Press has published a book by Elina Gertsman – The Absent Image. Lacunae in Medieval Books (2021). The monograph discusses the notion of horror vacui and explores how medieval authors responded to the problem of space.
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS), University of Pennsylvania Libraries has announced the ‘14th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age‘. The conference will take place on 17-19 November 2021 via ZOOM. Registration is required (link below). For further details on the programme, see SIMS and below.
School of Advanced Study at the University of London has announced a call for papers for an ERC Cultivate MSS project conference The International Trade in Pre-Modern Manuscripts 1890-1945 and the Making of the Middle Ages. The conference will take place in September 2022. More information on the poster.
Paul Needham (Princeton University Library) will give a series of lectures on the origins and history of the Gutenberg Bible. All the lectures will take place in October at the Bodleian Library (Oxford) and online. The event is open to all and free of charge. Information on dates and registration to the online meetings is available at the Bodleian Library website: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/the-lyell-lectures-2021