Manuscripts as Witnesses to the Cultural Contexts and Material Conditions of Textual Transmission: The MsPhys Project

Professor Dr Shari Boodts (Radboud Institute for Culture and History, Radboud University

Medieval manuscripts are an inexhaustible source of information about the past. By their very nature, they facilitate, even encourage, modifications from copy to copy, providing a distinctive...

Lecture 6/7

Isabelle Ratié:

Reading, Writing, Philosophising in Medieval India

Digital Lunch Seminar Series

Milk, Brain, Blood: Proteinaceous Substances of Animal Origin Used in Tibetan Manuscript Production. A Case Study of Khams Brygyd Volumes from the Oslo University Library Collection

Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and Małgorzata Grzelec

The process of religious manuscripts production in Tibet concerns various raw materials of local origin used in their production, primarily...

Tuesday, 16 June 2026, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm CEST
CSMC Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, room 0001 (pavilion)

Wednesday, 17 June 2026,  9:00 am – 5:00 pm CEST
DESY Campus Flash Seminar Room (building 28c)

When diverse fields collaborate on projects involving unique objects, establishing a complementary methodological framework and shared terminology are essential. This is particularly vital in...

For over two millennia, the Psalms have served as a source of devotion, identity, and artistic inspiration across cultures and traditions. While their textual traditions are relatively well studied, the extent of the Psalms’ rich material and visual heritage—transcribed on parchment, carved in stone, woven into textiles, and integrated into diverse media—has never been fully investigated. This...

Digital Lunch Seminar Series

Computational Visual Cataloguing: A Case Study of Rilke’s Notebooks

Sandra Richter and Hussein Mohammed  

This talk presents a case study on Rainer Maria Rilke’s notebooks. In this work, page-level and word-level attributes, such as orientation, colour and writing implement, are detected and linked to specific locations. This process yields “computational visual...