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5000+ Titles from the Academy Library in Cluj on USTC

Over 5000 titles of books printed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from the collection of the Academy Library in Cluj are now inventoried by the Universal Short Title Catalogue. On the initiative of Prof. Adrian Papahagi, several students from the Babeș-Bolyai University compiled a concordance of library shelfmarks and USTC call numbers, thus putting…

Cambridge student’s internship at CODEX

Between 12-15 July 2026, Ms Angelina Moroșan (Peterhouse College, Cambridge, BA in History) completed an internship at our centre. In the first week of her stay, Angelina attended our summer school and gave a paper on her experience with manuscript fragments at the Perne Library in Cambridge. In the second internship week, she catalogued manuscript…

12-18 July 2026: CODEX hosts International Summer School in the History of the Book

On 12-18 July 2026, CODEX hosted an international summer school in Cluj. Eight tutors from Budapest, Cluj, Paris, Prague and Vienna, and sixteen students from Cambridge, Cluj, Dublin, Paris, Prague, and Vienna spent a week in Cluj and Alba Iulia studying medieval manuscripts and early modern printed books. There were courses on Greek Palaeography, provenance…

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