Researchers from the CSMC and its partner institutions, the Matenadaran in Yerevan (Armenia) and the Kekelidze Center in Tbilisi (Georgia), came together for a major workshop to discuss their recent work on dating and provenancing manuscripts from the region and their plans for future collaboration.

The production of each written artefact is connected to a series of decisions about which materials to choose and which techniques to use to craft them. A new Occasional Paper provides an overview of a dynamic new research field at the UWA Cluster of Excellence that investigates material choices.

Together with the National Library of Israel (NLI), UWA has digitised the estates of important Jewish-German intellectuals. These archives as well as further material can now be accessed online remotely for the first time.