Category Archives: Announcements

The Book History Colloquium at Columbia University, open to any discipline, aims to provide a broad outlet for the scholarly discussion of book history, print culture, the book arts, and bibliographical research, and (ideally) the promotion of research and publication … Continue reading →

La ‘Chronique’ de Théophane : sources, composition, transmission. Un workshop international (Paris, Collège de France, Institut d’études byzantines & UMR 8167). — http://www.orient-mediterranee.com/IMG/pdf/Theophanes_2012_-_POSTER_-_FR.pdf

Prato, Cattedrale, 4.-16.IX.2012 : “La Parola, la Via, i Secoli. Il viaggio della Bibbia di Marco Polo”. – http://www.fscire.it/ ; http://eventi.fscire.it/it/futuro/

Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 28.VIII – 11.XI.2012 : The art of devotion in the Middle Ages. – http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/devotion/  

The aura of the word in the early age of print (1450-1600). International conference (Brussel, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten) – http://www.auraoftheword.ugent.be/

Bologna, Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio, 8.V. – 1.IX.2012 : ‘Ars Medicinae’. I libri dei medici dell’Università di Bologna. –http://www.archiginnasio.it/mostre/arsmedicinae.htm

Late Medieval English Scribes is an online catalogue of all scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in the manuscripts of the English writings of five major Middle English authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Trevisa, William Langland and Thomas Hoccleve. … Continue reading →

The Bibliographical Society in conjunction with the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the publication of an important new online reference work for book history. The British Armorial Bindings Database, begun by John Morris and continued by Philip Oldfield, … Continue reading →

Paris, Institut National du Patrimoine and Centre Culturel des Irlandais, 3-7 and 10-14.IX.2012 : Identifying and recording bookbinding structures for conservation and cataloguing and the history of European bookbinding 1450-1830, Ligatus Summer School 2012. –http://www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool/node/add/application

5.-11.VIII.2012 : Fourteenth international congress of medieval canon law (Toronto, University of Toronto). —  http://medieval.utoronto.ca/events/ICMCL/Congress_program.pdf