The Medieval Manuscripts Seminar meets at Senate House, University of London. Unless otherwise stated Seminars take place in the Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, accessed through the Palaeography Room, at the University of London Library, starting at 17.30. Seminars are open all. To attend online please register here.

Autumn 2025

25 November, Phoebe MacIndoe, University of St Andrews, Mind the Gap; how manuscript silence speaks volumes AND Cecilia Sideri, University of Warwick, A paper war: the manuscript tradition of Roberto Valturio’s De re militari

21 October, Kathryn Gerry, Bowdoin College, Guthlac and the Great Outdoors: exploring the exterior scenes of BL Harley Roll Y 6

30 September, Manuel Munoz Garcia, Durham University, Pieces of the Past: The Small Fragment folder in the Rosenthal Collection at Keio University

Past Seminars

Spring 2025

11 February, Jaakko Tahkokallio, University of Helsinki, Fragments from Swedish Parish Churches, c. 1100-1525.

11 March, Francisco Álvarex López, University of Salamanca, The Importance of Being a Host: New Medieval Fragments from the Libraries of Exeter Cathedral and the University of Salamanca.

25 March, Ana de Oliviera Dias, University of Oxford, Many Scripts, Many Scribes, Many Ways: The Production of Relic Labels in the Early Middle Ages.

Autumn 2024

15 October, J. D. Sargan, University of Georgia, Trans Theory as Method in Manuscript Studies online only. To request a zoom link please join our mailing list.

12 November, T. J. Webber, University of Cambridge, Punctuation and the Aural Dimension of Latin Texts in the Middle Ages.

3 December, Colleen Curran, University of Galway, Early Medieval Breton Manuscripts: An Introduction to BretPal.

Spring 2024

30 January, Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Towards a Historiography of the Colophon, online only book here for the zoom link.

5 March, Richard Gameson, University of Durham, The Identification of Inks and Pigments: How, when, where, and why?

19 March, Hannah Morcos, University of London, Jean Masson and his Medieval Manuscripts

Autumn 2023

3 October, Christopher de Hamel, Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Manuscript Fragments from Oxford and Canterbury. NOTE THIS SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN ROOM G35 on the ground floor of Senate House and booking is essential.

14 November, *Early Career Researcher Double Bill* Francesca Pontini (University of Stirling and British Library, Digraphism in George Buchanan’s Letters and Marginalia, and Anna-Nadine Pike (University of Kent), ‘Medieval’ Approaches to Early-Modern Script and Books, Through the Manuscripts of Esther Inglis (1570/1-1624).

28 November, Erik Niblaeus, University of Cambridge, Law and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Augsburg. CHANGE OF DATE this seminar will now take place on 6 December in room G35 on the ground floor of Senate House.