The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series presents regularly scheduled lectures related to the study of premodern manuscript books and global manuscript culture by scholars at all levels from Penn and around the world. Started in 2021 as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, the series offers a virtual space for students, scholars, and citizen scholars to come together to hear about and discuss the latest research in manuscript studies.
Peter Stokes discusses the possibilities and challenges of applying machine-learning technologies to transcription of potentially millions of images of digitized premodern manuscripts.
Lynn Ransom, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, and L. P. Coladangelo, Kent State University, introduce the new Digital Scriptorium Catalog, an online linked open data platform for creating a national union catalog for premodern manuscripts in American collections.
Andrew D. Turner, Senior Research Specialist, Getty Research Institute, delves into controversies and investigations surrounding the earliest known Mayan manuscript.
Meagan Allen of the Science History Institute considers the questionable authenticity of a work often attributed to Roger Bacon – the Epistola de secretis operibus artis et naturae et de nullitate magiae using paleographical analysis.
Yasmin Faghihi, Head of the Near and Middle Eastern Department at Cambridge University Library and the editor of the online union catalog for manuscripts from the Islamicate world FIHRIST, discusses the problems and potential of name authorities in manuscript research.
Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies 2022-2023 Visiting Research Fellow Dr. Federico Botana reveals the secrets of the trade in medieval manuscripts found within the card index file of the Italian bookseller Leo S. Olschki (1861 - 1940).
Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Director of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford and Professor of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscript Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, will discuss and demonstrate the Hebrew Palaeography Album, a new online tool to study medieval Hebrew writing practices.
Medieval rolls are notoriously difficult to represent online. In this lecture, Lisa Fagin Davis and Dot Porter will show medieval rolls recently published in Digital Mappa, a new digital publishing tool that centers the image and enables the annotation and linking of both images and text.
From some curious habits by scribes of late Middle English manuscripts, Professor Daniel Wakelin shall argue that scribes were sometimes not interested in, or were even vexed by, the material form of texts.
This lecture will discuss some of the issues relating to the digitization of manuscript rolls, focusing on a fifteenth-century genealogical roll produced during the Wars of the Roses, the Canterbury Roll.
This lecture centers on the historiography and future of Italian manuscript illumination with the goal of suggesting new methods of attribution and assessment for art historians, dealers, and collectors.
In this talk Tara Andrews will present some of the features and puzzles of the manuscript tradition of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, give us glimpses into the history of the developing Armenian diaspora.
In this talk, Professors Akbari and Gillespie offer an overview of their research findings, lessons learned from the pandemic, and upcoming exhibition of Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads.
Imre Galambos gives a talk on the wider context of Chinese manuscripts, connecting them with non-Chinese scribal cultures of Central Asia.
This lecture offers two perspectives on early twentieth century American collection of British rare books and manuscripts.
This talk will begin by revealing a stunningly beautiful and previously unknown detached miniature from a royal Book of Hours created by the court artist Jean Bourdichon around 1498.
In this lecture, creators Dot Porter, SIMS founding member and Curator of Digital Research Services, and Alberto Campagnolo, book conservator and adjunct professor at the University of Udine, will present a new version of the online collation modeler VisColl.
This talk explores how experience—natural knowledge from the sensorium—was translated into science—understanding natural laws and causation—in both the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages.
This lecture will explore the history of the Monastery and its association with manuscript production and manuscript ownership, and how the library holdings reflect the presence of Christians from several different language traditions. A special focus will be on the recent work of the Sinai Palimpsests Project.
Image above: Detail from LJS 242 Basis grammatice, fol. 9v