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Announcements and News
- Attend the in-person workshop entitled Exploring Handwritten Text Recognition for Manuscript Studies with the recipients of the 2025–2026 Graduate Student Research Fellowship: Priyamvada Nambrath and Eleanor Webb. February 25 2026 3:00–5:00PM, Kislak Center, Vitale II Rm 623, 6th Floor.
- Register for our upcoming SIMS Online Lecture, “One sober tint”: Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts and the Problem of Color (Siân Echard, University of British Columbia), Friday, March 13, 2026 12:00–1:30PM EST (via Zoom).
- Register for our upcoming SIMS Online Lecture, Grid as Ground (Hanna Vorholt, University of York), RESCHEDULED for Friday, April 17, 2026 12:00–1:30PM EST (via Zoom).
- The Fall 2025 issue (Vol. 10.2) of Manuscript Studies is now available in Diamond-level Open Access via Project Muse, as are all previous issues.
- SIMS is excited to announce the following Visiting Research Fellows for the 2025–2026 academic year: Ali Noori (Fordham University), Hanno Wijsman (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes), and Emanuele Scieri (University of Glasgow).
- Discover BASIRA, the Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art database, a new digital resource for book history hosted by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. Enter the database or visit the project website to learn more.
- Join us every Thursday at 12:00PM Noon EDT / 5pm BST for Coffee with a Codex (via Zoom; registration required).
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March 3, 2026
Bookbinding Workshop: LJS 419 and Parchment Bindings
A workshop to make our own versions of MS LJS 419, a 15th century herbal from Penn's collection.
- 5:00pm - 7:00pm
- Kislak Center Vitale II, Rm 623, 6th Floor
Open to the Public
- Workshop
March 5, 2026
Coffee with a Codex: Alphabetized Psalms in Hebrew
On March 5, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 720, Marcus Hartig's alphabetization of the Hebrew Psalms, in his 1876 manuscript.
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm
- Online
Open to the Public
- Workshop
March 12, 2026
Coffee with a Codex: Commentaries on Aristotle by Albertus Magnus
On March 12, curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 482, a 13th century copy of commentaries on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica, by the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus.
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm
- Online
Open to the Public