Call for nominations is now openCSMC Announces J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2023

22 November 2022

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With the J. P. Gumbert Dissertation Award, the CSMC honours the best doctoral thesis defended in 2022 that contributes to any aspect of the study of manuscripts and other written artefacts. We now welcome nominations.

The CSMC is happy to announce the third edition of the J. P. Gumbert Dissertation Award. The successful dissertation contributes to any aspect of the study of manuscripts and other written artefacts from fields such as art history, history, codicology, epigraphy, material sciences, palaeography, or philology. Its research focus can be on any period or region. Included in the award is a prize money of 5,000 Euro and fellowship for a research stay at CSMC.

The winners of last year's J.P. Gumbert Award were Mallory E. Matsumoto (Sharing Script: Development and Transmission of Hieroglyphic Practices among Classic Maya Scribes) and Madalina Toca (Letters from Pelusium. Studies in the Reception, Formation, and Historicity of the Isidorian Epistolary Corpus). 

Johan Peter Gumbert (1936-2016) was Professor and Professor Emeritus of Western Palaeography and Codicology at Leiden University from 1979 to 2001, and an expert on Latin and Dutch manuscripts. As a frequent guest at the Universität Hamburg, he was associated with the CSMC from its very beginning as well as with the COMSt-Network (Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies).

More information on the conditions of the award and how to make a nomination is available here. The deadline for nominations is Friday, 31 March 2023, 12:00 pm CEST.