Individual Research Projects
Independent Research Projects (IRPs) are specialised disciplinary-oriented projects on doctoral, postdoctoral and professorial levels. They often focus on individual writing cultures, even specific written artefacts.
Annotation Practices in German 20th Century Actors’ Scripts: The Boy Gobert Estate
Arabic Music Theory and Music in Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
Archival Practices in Ancient Iraq
Beyond Text: Books as Social Artefacts in Early 19th-Century Damascus
Compiling and Updating Databases of Judicial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century China
Dynamics in the Production of Aristotle’s Manuscripts of Ethics, Logic, and Natural Philosophy
Generative AI for Revealing Palimpsests
Knowledge Transformation and Strands of Notation
Mass Spectrometric Proteome Analysis of Written Artefacts
Measurements of Paper Components
On the Path of Ioannes Rhosos’ Quill
Personal Record-keeping among Medieval Islamic Scholars
Prayer, Protection and Plant Medicine
Reading the Scholarly Archive in the Pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East
Reconstructing the Library of Dabra Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos
Scribes and Scribal Practices in the ‘Timbuktu Archive’
Sheep’s Liver as Written Artifact and the Oracle Lore
Tangible Politics: The Transmission of Dante Alighieri’s Monarchia (ca. 1350–1559)
The Cultural History of Uyghur Literacy in Light of Multilingual and Multiscriptual Manuscripts
The Use of Parchment in Arabic Manuscripts of the Early Islamic Centuries
Valuating Handwriting in East Asia in the Digital Age
Zoroastrian Scribes and Scribal Practices During the Safavid Period (1501–1722)
The Textual and Material Transmission: An Investigation into the Manuscripts of Plato’s Theaetetus
