Nieuws over handschriften en oude drukken
29 January 2013
On April 12, the publication of Ina Kok, Woodcuts in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries will be celebrated in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, with a conference on ‘Illustrating the Early Printed Book’ .
21 January 2013
A call for papers has gone out for a two-day conference New Bounde: New Scholarship in Early Modern Binding, to be hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, 15-16 August 2013.
16 January 2013
Until May 5, 2013, Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp shows a selection of 40 of its illuminated manuscripts, among them the Wenceslas Bible and the Carmen Paschale. More information on the museum’s website .
20 December 2012
(Click here for a PDF version, without illustrations) Ed van der Vlist has compiled another invaluable list of recent publications in the fields of palaeography and codicology: BAGNOLI, Martina, & Kathryn Gerry, The medieval world. The Walters Art Museum. Baltimore/London, The Walters Art Museum/Giles, 2011. 216 pp., 200 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-904832-96-6. $ 45 / […]
30 October 2012
Charlotte Denoël of the Département des Manuscrits at the Bibliothèque nationale de France announces that their file of some 170.000 bibliographic references on medieval manuscripts in Latin, Greek and vernacular languages has been converted to an electronic format, and that these records have now been added to the catalogue entries of the relevant manuscripts. They […]
11 June 2012
Nieuw in het lijstje ‘Links’ in de rechtermarge (no pun intended …) van dit scherm is die van de Stichting Boek & Wurm. Deze stichting is opgericht in 2010, maar bij veel collega’s in het boekenvak nog niet bekend. Boek & Wurm beheert een fonds dat financiële steun kan bieden aan bibliotheken, musea, archieven, overheidsinstellingen […]
Next year, the Gruuthuuse-manuscript will be thecentre piece of an exhibition to be held in the Bruggemuseum-Gruuthuse, 22 March-23 June 2013. The theme of the accompanying international congress is The Gruuthuse Manuscript. Literature, Music, Devotion around 1400, organized jointly by Bruggemuseum-Gruuthuse, the Royal Library at The Hague, and Radboud University Nijmegen. Proposals for papers may […]
The Institute for Art History in Vienna (Pächt-Archiv/Forschungszentrum für Buchmalerei) is organizing a conference on illustrated epics with the title Res gestae – res pictae. Epen-Illustrationen des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts, Internationale Tagung des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Wien. This conference will take place from 28 February to 2 March 2013 at the Department […]
11 January 2012
Op donderdag9 februari 2012, vanaf 15:00 uur, organiseren de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden een themabijeenkomst over alba amicorum. Meer informatie is H I E R te vinden.
7 January 2012
27.I.2012 : Books and their readers in Anglo-Saxon England: a manuscript colloquium (Leiden, Universiteit Leiden). Here is the p o s t e r of the colloquium, and here are the a b s t r a c t s of the papers to be presented.