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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The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, is offering a fixed-term (non-renewable) Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text for candidates who hold, or are close to completing, a doctorate in…

The Centre hosts the following lecture on Wednesday 5th February at 5.30pm in the Memorial Room, Queen’s: Dr Elizabeth Frood (Oxford), ‘An unexpected script for an unexpected text: the…

Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group – Hilary Term 2025 Fridays 5 pm (unless otherwise stated)   Week 1, 24 January, 15:00             Balliol Historic Collections Centre Visit Previous experience…

The Centre hosts the following two speakers on Tuesday 18th February 2025 at 5.15pm in the Memorial Room, Queen’s: 1. Dr Riccardo Montalto (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico…