The Jerusalem guestbook of Miryam and Moshe Ya’akov Ben-Gavriêl is a small object of only 200 pages – yet it opens doors to more stories than a single researcher can uncover. Sebastian Schirrmeister wants to use new digital techniques to explore this microcosm and link it to larger bodies of knowledge. On 23 January, he...

A TV documentary spotlights the spectacular case of the ‘Mummy Book’ – the supposedly oldest codex fragment in the world, found in Graz in 2023. It also shows the investigations of the object at the CSMC, which play a crucial role in clarifying the open questions surrounding the ‘Mummy Book’.

For our Mobile Lab, the turn of the year 2024/2025 was marked by tour de force through northern Italy. In changing formation, the team spent several weeks in Venice and Verona, examining a series of spectacular objects in famous museums and libraries.