The  University Library in Toruń, the Faculty of Fine Arts of theNicolaus Copernicus University and the Old Book Studio of the Institute of the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw cordially invite you to the scientific conference Textus et pictura V. Book block - collection - miscellanea. Medieval Book as a Collection, which will take place on April 11-13 this year in the auditorium of the Nicolaus Copernicus University Library (ground floor).

The initiators of this cyclical forum, integrating researchers of medieval manuscript heritage from various disciplines - historians and art historians, bibliologists, codicologists, conservators of monuments, philologists and paleographers, were prof. Monika Jakubek-Raczkowska from the Department of Monument and Museum Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University, and Dr. Marta Czyżak from the Special Collections Department of the University Library in Toruń. This nationwide conference forum, heading towards increasing internationalization, has set itself the goal of confronting scientific perspectives, discussing the results of monographic research, presenting current development research projects and creating conditions for methodological reflection on research aspects, valuation, and conservation priorities.

The subject of the conference will be the medieval manuscript code, treated as an integral whole. A block of parchment pages bound in leather is a carrier of writing and various types of decorations, which in turn carry content, meanings and aesthetic values. The reflections will focus on thematic groups and include content analysis and palaeography, codicological analysis, structure and binding of the book, fate, state of preservation and protection of the manuscript heritage, as well as analysis of artistic forms and iconography of illuminated codices, musicological and liturgical problems, musical palaeography and libraries. and collections.

Conference programme

 

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