Events

Digital Lunch Seminar Series

The Container Lab Mission to Analyse Palm-leaf Manuscripts

Giovanni Ciotti, Marina Creydt, and Nathali Holz

Palm-leaf manuscripts represent one of the world’s most significant and numerous forms of handwritten artefacts. However, their material properties have hardly, if at all, been studied systematically. A team from the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding...

The Kairouan Manuscript Project at CSMC: Zooming In on Parchment Decay

Salt, humidity fluctuations and microorganisms: a study on the degradation of the parchment manuscripts from Kairouan

R. B. Davidson MacLaren, Claudia Colini, Agnes Weiß

Written artefacts made from parchment are an important part of our cultural heritage. Since the collagen structure of parchment can deteriorate under...

The Circulation and Influence of Traditional Law in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: The Compilation and Printing of Hoàng Việt luật lệ in Late Imperial Vietnam

LIAO Xiaoying (EPHE, Paris)

The most important legal code of Vietnam’s Nguyễn Dynasty (1802–1945), the Hoàng Việt Luật Lệ (The Laws and Regulations of Imperial Vietnam), was promulgated in 1812. Written in Classical Chinese, it has been...