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
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
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