Wednesday 13 April 2016

8.30 - 10.00: Registration

Will take place in front of Lecture Hall 22-0-11 at the Faculty of Humanities, Building 22, University of Copenhagen Amager, Njalsgade 126.

10.00-12.00: Session 1

Chair: M. J. Driscoll

M. J. Driscoll, Arnamagnæan Institute: Words of welcome

Beeke Stegmann: The intended and unintended traces of a collector: Studying the history of Arnamagnæan manuscripts based on accompanying slips

Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson: Latin manuscript fragments related to Iceland

Tim Padfield, Morten Ryhl-Svendsen, Poul Klenz Larsen, Mette Jakobsen and Lars Aasbjerg Jensen: The climate control of the Arnamagnæan manuscript vault

Margit Smith: The dreaded Lepisma saccharina

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-15.30: Session 2

Chair: Philip Lavender

Flavio Marzo: Active, supportive and flexible: The evolving role of book conservation in digitisation projects: The British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership Digitisation Programme

Alberto Campagnolo, Dot Porter, Doug Emery and Dennis Mullen: Virtually disbinding codices: The visualization of the construction of codex textblocks

Lynn Ransom: The New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts project: An update

Jessica Dummer, Doug Emery and Dot Porter: OPenn and its place in the digital humanist’s landscape

David Cooper, Athanasios Velios and Nicholas Pickwoad: An online catalogue of the manuscripts of the monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai

15.30-16.00: Break

16.00-18.00: Session 3

Chair: Anne Mette Hansen

Michaelle Biddle: Conserving Africa’s Islamic manuscript heritage

Nil Baydar: The history of a book hospital: Management of manuscript conservation in Turkey

Marco di Bella and Nikolas Sarris: The conservation of a 15th-century large parchment ms of Gädlä säma ‘tat from the monastery of Ura Mäsqäl: Further conservation experiences from Easty Tigray, Ethiopia

Abigail Quandt: The purple codices: A report on current and future research and conservation treatment projects

18.00-19.00: Reception in the foyer of Building 27