Unless noted, all meetings are in the Memorial Room, The Queen’s College, 5.15pm 7 May (2nd week) — Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar: Shaahin Pishbin (Queen’s) & Thomas…

On Thursdays in Weeks 2, 5, and 8, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm Memorial Room, The Queen’s College, Oxford The Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar is a new initiative…

Dating to the fourth century BCE, the 2500 bamboo slips housed at Tsinghua University rank amongst the most significant global manuscript collections. Containing texts that reflect on a wide…

The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) is pleased to invite Oxford-based researchers to participate in the workshop Forgotten Libraries to be held at The Queen’s College (Oxford)…

New directions in the study of written artefacts from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages. Organised by the Crafting Documents project (AHRC-DFG) and co-sponsored by the Centre for Manuscripts…

On behalf of Sebastian Dows-Miller Call for Survey Responses: Enabling Digital Research on Manuscript Catalogue Data A DiSc-funded project within the Bodleian Libraries is working to transform the Bodleian’s TEI-encoded…

The week before Christmas, a small delegation from the CMTC went to Nanjing, China, to attend the formal launch of the Centre for the Study of Excavated Manuscripts. The…

Book launch – Selena Wisnom’s The Library of Ancient Wisdom (with Emma Smith)  When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon…

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