Programme

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Organiser and Chair: Jochen Hermann Vennebusch (Universität Hamburg)

• Karin Becker (Universität Hamburg)
  Text Within and Surrounding the Psalms in Medieval Psalter Manuscripts
• Sheila Blair (Boston College)
  Three Strategies for Filling Space in Manuscripts Made in the Islamic Lands
• Jonathan Bloom (Boston College)
  Filling Space in Arabic Script Epigraphy
• Jochen Hermann Vennebusch (Universität Hamburg)
  Leaves, Busts, Letters. Filling Space in Inscriptions on Medieval Bronze Baptismal Fonts

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Organiser, Chair, and respondent: Sara Chiarini (Universität Potsdam / Universität Hamburg)

• Leah Mascia (Universität Hamburg)
  Pseudo-Scripts and Invented Signs: The Ritual Use of Writing in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt
• Barend ter Haar (Universität Hamburg)
  The Extra-linguistic Use of Written Signs in Chinese Religious Practice
• Nikolai Grube (Universität Bonn)
  Unseen Writing: Maya Hieroglyphic Texts Invisible to the Human Eye

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Organisers: Markus Friedrich, Konrad Hirschler (Universität Hamburg), Daisy Livingston (University of Durham)
Chair and Respondent: Daisy Livingston (University of Durham)

• Paolo Sartori (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  Like an Image in a Rearview Mirror: Vernacular Ethnography and Archival Blind Spots in Khiva
• Maura Dykstra (Yale University)
  Paper Trace: The Production, Destruction, and Transmutation of Archival Texts in Late Imperial China
• Markus Friedrich (Universität Hamburg)
  “Useless Documents” – And Why Still Preserve Them? Early Modern Europeans and Their Ideas about Different Stages of Archival Preservation

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Organisers: Dorothea Reule, Denis Nosnitsin (Universität Hamburg)
Chair: Denis Nosnitsin (Universität Hamburg)
Respondent: Katrin Janz-Wenig (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg)

• Alessandro Bausi (Universität Hamburg)
  The Essential of Cataloguing
• Ralph Lee (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies / Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge)
  Encoding Catalogues: The EMIP Project
• Daria Elagina (Universität Hamburg)
  William Wright: A Victorian Scholar in the Digital Age

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Organiser: Szilvia Jáka-Sövegjártó (Universität Hamburg)
Chair: Márton Vér (Universität Hamburg)

• Jay Crisostomo (University of Michigan)
  Cuneiform Bilingual Vocabularies, the Foundations of Ancient and Modern Scholarship
• Antonio Manieri (University of Naples L’Orientale)
  The Kangoshō Genre and the Beginnings of Japanese Bilingual Lexicography (7th–8th Centuries)
• Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest)
  Hand-Written Sino-Mongol Bilingual Vocabularies

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Organiser and Chair: Michael Höckelmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

• Alexei Ditter (Reed College, Portland)
  What We Learn from Looking at Layouts: Construction and Design in Tang Dynasty (618– 907) Entombed Epitaphs
• Jessey J.C. Choo (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)
  Black Squares and Scratch Marks— Materiality and the Interpretation of Medieval Chinese Mortuary Epigraphy
• Michael Höckelmann (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  Contested Memory: The Many Afterlives of Gao Lishi

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Organiser, Chair, and Respondent: Nuria de Castilla (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)

• Alya Karame (Collège de France, Paris)
  Beyond the Role of Ibn Muqla: Writing as a Cultural Vehicle
• Zohra Azgal (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
  Learning, Transmission and Prestige: The Manuscript Tradition of a Handbook of Qur’anic Textual Variants
• Adeline Laclau (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
  From Mamluk Barracks to Sultans’ Libraries. A Case Study on an Original Production of Manuscripts in the 15th-Century Egypt

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Organiser and Chair: Eva Wilden (Universität Hamburg)

• Nicole Brisch (Universität Hamburg)
  The Philology of Sumerian Literary Texts
• Aaron Butts (Universität Hamburg)
  Intersections between Philology and Manuscript Studies: An Ethiopic Case (EMML 1939)
• Giuseppe de Gregorio (University of Bologna)
  Philology vs. Manuscriptology? Examples of Interactions from Greek Manuscript Studies

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Organiser and Chair: Hussein Mohammed (Universität Hamburg)

• Hussein Mohammed (Universität Hamburg)
  Pattern Analysis for Written Artefacts
• Ralf Möller (Universität zu Lübeck)
  Data Linking Supported by Generatitive AI
• Mickaël Coustaty (Université de La Rochelle)
  Complex Computational Analysis of Historical and Administrative Documents

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Chair: Ralf Möller (Universität zu Lübeck)

• Eleni Bozia and Angelos Barmpoutis (University of Florida)
  Originals, Copies, and Digital Reproductions: Reembodying the Written Artefact
• Metoda Peršin (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Potmarks in the Bronze Age Lebanon: The Lebanon Potmark Database as a Medium for Understanding the Visual Communication in the Levant
• Paul Dilley (University of Iowa)
  Introducing the “Global Writing Cultures” Resource
• Dîlan Çakir (Freie Universität Berlin) und Alex Holz (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach)
  Studying Born-Digital Artefacts in a Literature Archive. Friedrich Kittler’s Born-Digital Estate

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Chair: Michael Kohs (Universität Hamburg)

• Arianna d’Ottone (Sapienza – University of Rome)
  Challenging Texts: Encrypted Qurʾans in the Arabic-Islamic Manuscript Culture
• Murtaza Shakir (Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah)
  Conversing with the Inverse: Contextualizing the Inverse Calligraphy in the Ṭirāz of the Era of the Fatimid Imām al-Mustanṣir billāh
• Antonina Tetzlaff (Warburg Institute, London / Universität Hamburg)
  "aiutando l’arte con le parole"? – Evaluating Writing as a Visual Component of Images in the Italian Renaissance Art Theory

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Chair: Kaja Harter-Uibopuu (Universität Hamburg)

• Fiona Phillips (University of Oxford)
  Karian Writing. Analysing What Survives and Glimpsing What Was Lost
• Daria Kohler (Kondakova) (KU Leuven)
  Inscription as a Mode of Literary Publication in Greek and Roman Antiquity
• Alex Rodriguez Suarez (Independent Researcher)
  Reading the Religious Soundscape: The Epigraphy of Jerusalemite Bells
• Rafał Wieczorek (University of Warsaw)
  A New Analysis of Wood and Inscription from the Berlin Rongorongo Tablet

Venue: ESA B (Main Building)
Chair: Hanna Wimmer (Universität Hamburg)

• Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge)
  Continuities and Innovations: Approaches to Text and Paratext in the Medieval Book

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Organiser and Chair: Kristopher W. Kersey (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Edward Kamens (Yale University)
  Sūtra-copy Fragments (shakyōgire) in Calligraphy Albums (tekagami): Desecration, Preservation, and Ontological Shift
• Akiko Walley (University of Oregon)
  Seeking Gods’ Autographs: Inclusion of “True Hands” by Deified Individuals in Tekagami
• Kristopher W. Kersey (University of California, Los Angeles)
  Codex Redux: Grounding the Poetics of Collage in the Collected Poems of Ise (Ise-shū, Japan, ca. 1112 CE)
• Mary Gilstad (Yale University)
  Reading Tekagami as Anthology: Totality vs Constituency

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Organisers: Tina Bawden (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and Karin Gludovatz (Freie Universität Berlin)
Chair: Tina Bawden (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

• Jana Lambeck (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Stitches in Time: Added Material in a Late Medieval Psalter: Hamburg, Cod. in scrin. 149 (13th–15th Centuries)
• Tina Bawden (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  Eclectic Modes? The Art of Collecting in Illuminated Manuscripts c.1000
• Aden Kumler (Universität Basel)
  Moneta Sacra: Counterfactual Numismatics in Carolingian and Ottonian Illuminated Manuscripts

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Organiser and Chair: Markus Fischer (Universität Hamburg)

• Martin Etter, Riccardo Cameli Manzo (DESY P02.1), Zsombor J. Földi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Szilvia Jáka-Sövegjártó (Universität Hamburg)
  Powder X-ray Diffraction: Pilot Study on Clay Tablets
• Sylvio Haas (DESY P62), Patrick Huber (DESY / Technische Universität Hamburg) and Agnieszka Helman-Ważny (Universität Hamburg)
  Investigating Paper Components with Small- and Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS/WAXS)
• Patrick Huber (DESY / Technische Universität Hamburg), Giovanni Ciotti
  (Universität zu Lübeck) and Laura Gallardo Dominguez (Technische Universität Hamburg) Multiscale Material Characterisation of Asian Writing Supports

Venue: ESA W 121 (ESA West)

• Thomas Emanuel Balke (Universität Heidelberg)
  Materiality and Context: Aspects of a Physical Practice of Cuneiform Accounting in Third-Millennium Mesopotamia BC
• Elisa Barney Smith (Luleå Technical University / Boise State University) and Karen Wadley (Boise State University)
  Document Processing Tools for Analysis of Historia Scholastica
• Daria Elagina (Universität Hamburg)
  Seals in Ethiopia and Eritrea: New Data and New Approaches
• Tom Gheldof (KU Leuven) and Marta Fogagnolo (University of Bologna)
  An Innovative Approach in the Study of Ancient Written Artefacts: the ENCODE Project
• Seyed Abdolreza Hosseini (Allameh Tabataba’i University)
  Pounce and the Innovation of Emād’s Rasm-al-Mashq [Calligraphic Writing Booklets]
• Jialong Liu (Leiden University / KU Leuven)
  Away from the Capitals: A Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Tang Public Inscriptions (618–907)
• Gregor Meinecke (Universität Hamburg)
  Collectors of Scripts. Andrea Mantegna and Bernardo Parentino at the Court of Isabella d’Este
• Nina Niedermeier (Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venedig)
  From Handwriting to Printing and Back – Illuminated Ester Scrolls as a Hybrid Medium
• Denis Nosnitsin (Universität Hamburg)
  Manuscript Making Photographed: Scribes and Their Work as They Appear in Early Photographs from Ethiopia and Eritrea
• Anne Peiter (Université de la Réunion)
  Manuscripts under the Ashes. On the Survival of Written Testimonies of Murdered Prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp
• Christian Brockmann, Stefano Valente, Louiza Argyriou, Daniel Deckers, Alessandro Musino, Eva Wöckener-Gade (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg / Universität Hamburg)
  Presenting a Multi-Layered Manuscrip

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Chair: José Maksimczuk (Universität Hamburg)

• Penelope Faithfull (Universität Wien)
  A Layout by Any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet…? The Importance of Layout and Format in Roman Military Verse Inscriptions
• Clark Bates (University of Birmingham)
  Materialising Unity: Catena Manuscripts as Imperial and Ecclesial Reform
• Ali Mashhadi Rafi (Farhangian University of Alborz)
  Key Indicators for Identification of the Manuscripts of Persian Epistolography Handbooks from Safavid Era (1501–1722)

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Chair: Alessandro Bausi (Universität Hamburg)

• Ettore Morelli (Universität Basel)
  The Writing of the Shades, and of Tlali and Tsekelo Moshoeshoe: Speaking, Engraving, Drawing, and Writing in Lesotho and Cape Town, 1858
• Serena Ammirati (Roma Tre University)
  Orality and Writing: From Antiquity to the Present Day, through the Eyes of the Paleographer
• Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona)
  Manuscript Culture in the Early Modern Age: Challenges to the Notion of a Paradigm Shift
• Lorenzo Lastilla, Serena Ammirati, Paolo Merialdo (Roma Tre University)
  How Explainable Is Automatic Hand Identification? A Case Study

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Chair: Agnieszka Helman-Ważny (Universität Hamburg)

• Michele Cammarosano (University of Naples L’Orientale)
  Wax Boards in Context. History, Technology, and Philosophy of the Neverending Manuscript
• Elena Hertel (Universität Basel)
  Material Traces of Manuscript Use and Reuse in Ancient Egypt: The Heterogeneous Papyri from Deir el-Medina
• Tom Lorenz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
  Recycling vs Modification: Modes of Palimpsestation in Icelandic Manuscripts
• Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
  In Search of the Common Writer in the Modern Era: Unorthodox Genres, Improvised Materials

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Organiser: Claudia Sode (Universität zu Köln)
Chair: Martina Filosa (Universität zu Köln)

• Alessio Sopracasa (Sorbonne University / CNRS - UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Paris)
  Creating a Sigillographic Search Engine for Byzantium: Preliminary Results
• Maria Teresa Catalano (Universität zu Köln)
  Advantages and Limits of RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) Applied to Byzantine Sigillography
• Martina Filosa and Claudia Sode (Universität zu Köln)
  A Research-Based Digital Teaching Infrastructure for Auxiliary Disciplines: The Case of Byzantine Sigillography
• Victoria Eyharabide (Sorbonne University, STIH Laboratory), Béatrice Caseau (Sorbonne University, CNRS - UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Paris), and Lucia Maria Orlandi (CNRS - UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Paris)
  Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Byzantine Seals (BHAI)
• John McEwan (University of Saint Louis)
  From Archives to Archaeology via Machine Learning: Dating Medieval Seal Matrices Using Archival Catalogue Data

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Organiser, Chair, and Respondent: Katrin Janz-Wenig (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg)

• Sarah Deichstetter and Maria Theisen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  Uncovering the Medieval Bookbinding of Klosterneuburg Abbey. Written Sources and Cover Decorations
• Viviana Elisa Nicoletti (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Patrick Layton (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien)
  Recovering the Methodology and Materiality of the Books of Kosterneuburg Abbey. Cover Description and FTIR-Spectra

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Organiser: Cécile Michel (CNRS, Paris / Ethics Working Group at UWA)

4:30 pm – 4:40 pm Introduction by Konrad Hirschler

4:40 pm – 5:30 pm First Roundtable: “The Researcher” moderated by Jost Gippert

Heba Abd El Gawad (Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

Corinne Flacke (Programme Director for Humanities and Social Sciences
at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Alessandro Bausi (Universität Hamburg)

5:40 pm – 6:30 pm Second Roundtable: “The Artefact” moderated by Cécile Michel

Fackson Banda (Head of UNESCO’s Documentary Heritage Unit)

Mariachiara Esposito (Seconded National Expert at the Cultural Policy
Unit of the European Commission)

Donna Yates (Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and
Criminology at Maastricht University)

6:40 pm – 7:20 pm Third Roundtable: “The Data” moderated by Davidson MacLaren

Michael Popham (Digital Preservation Analyst at the Digital Preservation Coalition and Former Head of Digital Collections and Preservation at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library)

Simon Tanner (Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at King’s College London)

Catherine Walsh (Director of Cataloging at Hill Museum & Manuscript Library)

7:20 pm – 7:30 pm Conclusion by Michael Friedrich

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Organiser and Chair: Ondrej Škrabal (Universität Hamburg)

• Anna Marie Krüger (INGRID project, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
• Mia Gaia Trentin (DigiGraf Project, The Cyprus Institute)
• Rebecca R. Benefiel (Ancient Graffiti Project, Washington and Lee University)
• Holly M. Sypniewski (Ancient Graffiti Project, Clarkson University)
• Jona Schlegel (Project INDIGO, Universität Wien / Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für archäologische Prospektion und virtuelle Archäologie)

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Organiser: Claudia Colini, Eliana Dal Sasso (Universität Hamburg)
Chair: Claudia Colini (Universität Hamburg)

• Kristine Rose-Beers (Cambridge University Library)
  Following Threads: Materiality as an Indicator of Provenance in Islamic Bookbindings
• Elodie Lévêque (Sorbonne University)
  The Emergence of Bookbinding as a Specialized Craft in the 12th-Century France
• Eliana Dal Sasso (Universität Hamburg)
  Egyptian Witnesses: Late Antique and Early Mediaeval Egyptian Society in the Light of Its Bookbinding Tradition
• Anna Gialdini (Bruno Kessler Foundation Library, Trento)
  "Greek covers" and Turkish Leather: Economic Value and Practical Knowledge in Early Modern Italian Bindings

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Organiser and Chair: Franz Anton Cramer (Universität Hamburg)

• Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak (New York University)
  Signed, De-Signed, Consigned. Documentary Access as Re-Mediation (Western Europe, 8th–13th Centuries CE)
• Ulrike Hanstein (Kunstuniversität Linz)
  Inscriptions, Inventories, and Instructions in VALIE EXPORT’s Archive
• Roberta Zollo (Universität Hamburg)
  The Paradox of the porbuhitan Corpus of Manuscripts: Hidden to the Colonial Establishment in the Past, Forgotten by the Batak People in the Present

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Organiser and Chair: Weitian Yan (Indiana University)

• Amy McNair (University of Kansas)
  From Epigraphic to Decorative: Xu Sangeng and the Divine Omen Stele
• Lei Xue (Oregon State University)
  Calligraphic Walls: Constructing Inscribed Spaces in Early Modern China
• Xiao Yang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
  Image, Sutra, and Miracles: Buddhist Rock Carving of Bishui si in Mianyang
• Pinyan Zhu (Kent State University)
  Performative and Duplicable: Inscribed Buddhist Texts at the Longmen Grottoes

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Organiser: Szilvia Jáka-Sövegjártó (Universität Hamburg)
Chair: Olivier Bonnerot (Universität Hamburg)

• Chapane Mutiua (Centros de Estudios Africanos, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane)
  The Role of Paratext in a Multilingual and Multiliteracy Context of Portuguese Mercantile Imperialism
• Floris Bernard (Ghent University)
  Scribal Colophons in Manuscripts Across the Medieval Mediterranean
• Leah Mascia (Universität Hamburg)
  Cultural and Religious Identity in Roman Egypt: Texts and Paratexts in a Funerary Context

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Organiser: Matthieu Husson (Université PSL-Observatoire de Paris, SYRTE, CNRS)
Chair: Divna Manolova (Université PSL-Observatoire de Paris, SYRTE, CNRS)

• Emmylou Haffner (Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes, CNRS/ENS)
  Written Artefacts and Mathematical Research
• Matthieu Husson (Université PSL-Observatoire de Paris, SYRTE, CNRS)
  Scientific Manuscripts as a Device to Shape Traditions and Epistemic Collectives: Blank Spaces, Hands and Temporal Scales of Production in MS Escorial O II 10
• Anuj Misra (University of Copenhagen)
  Drawing Lines on Paper: Modernity, Mathematics, and Materiality in Sanskrit Manuscripts

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Organisers: Zsombor J. Földi and Albert Dietz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Chair: Albert Dietz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

• Albert Dietz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  Inscriptions as Images. Placement and Use of Seal Inscriptions as Pictorial Elements
• Zsombor J. Földi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  One’s Own Seal. The Manufacture of Cylinder Seals and the So-Called “Drafts” of Seal Inscriptions
• Stylianos Aspiotis (Universität Hamburg), Jochen Schlüter (Museum der Natur Hamburg-Mineralogie, Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels), Frank Hildebrandt (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg), Boriana Mihailova (Universität Hamburg)
  Non-destructive Material Characterization by Raman Spectroscopy: the Example of Cylinder Seals

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Organisers: Michael Kohs, José Maksimczuk, Thies Staack (Universität Hamburg)
Chair: Thies Staack (Universität Hamburg)

• Olivier Bonnerot and José Maksimczuk (Universität Hamburg)
  An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Greek Manuscript Vat. Reg. gr. 116 (Manuscript Studies, Textual Criticism, Ink Analysis)
• Kuniyoshi L. Sakai (Tokyo University)
  Better Brain Use by Writing on Paper than on Tablet or Smartphone
• Laura Vermeeren (University of Amsterdam)
  Yearning for Rice Paper: Chinese Calligraphy in the Digital Domain

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Organiser: Matthieu Husson (Université PSL-Observatoire de Paris, SYRTE, CNRS)
Chair: Emmylou Haffner (Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes, CNRS/ENS)

• Arilès Remaki (ERC Philiumm, CNRS)
  Genetic Method on Tabular Practices: How to Think about the Writing of Tables?
• Divna Manolova (Université PSL-Observatoire de Paris, SYRTE, CNRS)
  On How Scientific Manuscripts Make Readers Move: A Discussion of Scripts, Lines, and Colours in Byzantine Astronomical Diagrams
• Scott Trigg (Université PSL-Observatoire de Paris, SYRTE, CNRS)
  Manuscript Diagrams as Tools of Reasoning in Islamicate Astronomy

Venue: ESA O 221 (ESA East)
Chair: Uta Lauer (Universität Hamburg)

• Silpsupa Jaengsawang (Universität Hamburg)
  Printed Anisong Manuscripts in Luang Prabang: How Handwritten Additions Create Uniqueness
• Yeogeun Kim (Kyungpook National University)
  Calligraphy or Marginalia in the Visual Narrative of a Korean Buddhist Romance, Kuunmong
• Yousry Elseadawy (Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies)
  The Reception of Kalīlah wa-Dimnah Approached through Their Manuscript Notes
• Rebecca Sturm (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach)
  Between Literature and Performance. Stage Scripts as Written Artefacts

Venue: ESA H (Main Building)
Chair: Alba Fedeli (Universität Hamburg)

• Christiane Czygan (Orient-Institute Istanbul)
  The Agency of the Hamburg Divan Manuscript by Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent (1554) and Its Readership
• Lucia Raggetti and Marianna Marchini (University of Bologna)
  The Stage Magic of Writing. Written Artefacts for Entertainment and Deception in Arabic Technical Literature
• Nazlı Vatansever (Universität Wien)
  On Categorization of Ottoman MTMs: Criteria, Method, and Practice
• Hagit Nol (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
  The (un)Forgotten Dipinto Texts of Early Islam: Chronology and Distribution

Venue: ESA W 221 (ESA West)
Chair: Marco Heiles (Universität Hamburg)

• Alessandro Musino, Stefano Valente, Eva Wöckener-Gade (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg / Universität Hamburg)
  Crossroads of Knowledge in Greek Lexicographic Manuscripts: Exploring Mutual Interactions between the Etymologicum Gudianum and the Etymologicum Genuinum
• Direk Hongthong (Kasetsart University, Bangkok)
  Old Seed in Different Soil: Evolution of Khmer Didactic Literature Entitled “Cpāp’ Kram” in Thailand
• Susana Torres Prieto (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute)
  Travelling Books: From Archive to Canon in Kyivan Rus’
• Eloise Wright (Ashoka University)
  Fixed in Space: Mobility and Renewal in the Interpretation of Stele Inscriptions in Dali, Yunnan