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On Friday, February 5th 2021, at 2 pm CET (3pm Romanian time), Adrian Papahagi will give a conference on the tradition of Boethius in the Early Middle Ages: HIC MAGIS PHILOSOPHICE QUAM CATHOLICE LOQUITUR:Latin and Vernacular Traditions of Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae in the Early Middle Ages The conference is organised by the ERC NeoplatContinue reading “Boethian Manuscripts in the Early Middle Ages”

By December 2020, eleven manuscript fragments from the Library of the Romanian Academy in Cluj have been digitised and described on Fragmentarium. Check them out here! Fragmentarium, based at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), “enables libraries, collectors, researchers and students to publish images of medieval manuscript fragments, allowing them to catalogue, describe, transcribe, assemble andContinue reading “CODEX contributes to Fragmentarium”

Congratulations to CODEX member Andreea Mârza on her new book: a rich and fascinating exploration of the life and activity of Imre Dániel, the librarian of the Catholic bishop of Transylvania, Ignatius Batthyány, at the end of the eighteenth century. The book can be ordered on the publisher’s site.

On 23 October 2020, the members of the FRAGMED project presented their work in progress in a press conference held on Zoom. So far, eleven manuscript fragments from the Library of the Romanian Academy in Cluj have been restored, described and published online on the Fragmentarium site.

On 8 October 2020, Dr Adrian Papahagi gave a paper on “Liturgy and Private Devotion in Medieval Transylvania” at an international conference held in Bratislava and online. THE IMAGE OF PIETY IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS IN SLOVAKIA AND IN EUROPE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE 8th-9th October 2020, University Library in Bratislava, Klariská ul. 5, 811 05 Bratislava DAYContinue reading “Conference on Liturgical Manuscripts in Bratislava”

Within the FRAGMED project sponsored by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, Dr Adrian Papahagi gave a lecture on “Identifying, describing, digitising, and conserving fragmenta codicum“. The lecture was attended by the staff of the Library of the Romanian Academy in Cluj on 16 September 2020.

We are so glad that the reference works we published are available in the world’s leading libraries. Above: Vocabularul cărții manuscrise next to other codicological vocabularies on the shelves of the Palaeography Reading Room, Special Collections, Senate House Library, London. Below: Manuscrisele medievale occidentale din România: Census, at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.

Browsing through ancient folders, we discovered the poster of our first project – long before this site was created. We thought we’d share it here.

The first group of medieval manuscript fragments from the Library of the Romanian Academy in Cluj included in the FRAGMED project have been restored by the team led by Dr Alexandru Știrban at the National Unity Museum in Alba Iulia. The teams from Cluj (Dr Codruța Cuceu, Dr Bogdan Crăciun, and Dr Adrian Papahagi) andContinue reading “Manuscript fragments from Cluj restored in Alba Iulia”

On 24-25 October 2019, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is organising in Milan a conference entitled Tradizioni e istituzioni religiose nello spazio culturale italo-romeno tra Medioevo e prima età moderna. Dr Adinel Dincă is giving a paper on “Utrumque ius nella Transilvania tardo medievale”.

CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY 10 Anniversary edition, celebrating 100 years of English Studies at the University of Cluj PANEL ON ‘ALFREDIAN TEXTS AND CONTEXTS’ SPONSORED BY THE ‘CODEX’ CENTRE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25th 11:30-13:00 | Sala Popovici, Facultatea de Litere Moderator: Adrian Papahagi Jay Paul Gates (City University of New York) – The Alfredian Prose Psalms andContinue reading “Alfredian Texts and Contexts Conference-Programme”

On Wednesday, 23 October 2019, Professor Susan Irvine (University College London) will be lecturing on the Old English poem The Wanderer. The lecture will start at 12:00 in room Shakespeare, at the Faculty of Letters.

Congratulations to CODEX member Cristiana Papahagi for her excellent edition and translation into Romanian of the Old French epic Chançun d’Willame (London, BL Add. MS 38663, s. XII). The book is available from the publisher, POLIROM.

Check out the article on medieval calendars co-authored by CODEX member, Cristian Ispir within a project hosted by the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. https://www.bl.uk/medieval-english-french-manuscripts/articles/medieval-calendars

Our latest publication will be presented at the Faculty of Letters of the Babeș-Bolyai University. The three authors, CODEX members Andreea Mârza, Adinel Dincă and Adrian Papahagi will be joined by Prof. Corin Braga, the dean of the Faculty of Letters, and Prof. Alexander Baumgarten, the director of Polirom’s Biblioteca medievală series. Friday, March 29,Continue reading “The Census of Medieval Manuscripts presented at UBB Cluj”

On 14 March 2019, Dr Adinel Dincă gave a paper on “Bibles and Bible Translations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Transylvania” at a workshop entitled Translation Theory and Practice in the Later Middle Ages: the Bible and Beyond. The event toook place at Oriel College, Oxford.

On 20 March 2019, Adrian Papahagi is giving a conference on Western medieval manuscripts in Romania. The latest publication of CODEX will be presented by Professors Eugen Munteanu and Florin Crîșmăreanu from the University of Iași. The event moderated by Dr Rodica Pop will be hosted by the Central University Library, and will start atContinue reading “Conference and book presentation in Iași”

We are happy to announce the publication of the first census of Western medieval manuscripts in Romania. The volume, produced by CODEX members Adrian Papahagi, Adinel Dincă, and Andreea Mârza, describes 515 items — many of them for the first time. The volume has a rich system of indices, including authors and texts, provenance (placesContinue reading “A Census of Western Medieval Manuscripts in Romania”

The Stadtbibliothek Trier organised a conference on the deluxe liturgical books produced at the Court School of Charlemagne. Dr Adrian Papahagi spoke about the Lorsch Gospels (Alba Iulia, Batthyaneum Library, MS II.1 & Vatican, Pal. lat. MS 50), the last product of the group. The conference programme was: Mittwoch, 10. Oktober Nachmittags: Gelegenheit zu FührungenContinue reading “Manuscripts of Charlemagne’s Court School”

On 27 August 2018, Dr Adrian Papahagi gave a conference entitled “Itinera codicum: Über Handschriftentransfers zwischen Österreich und Siebenbürgen (14.-18. Jh.)” at the Institute for Medieval Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in Vienna.

On 16 March 2018, Dr Max Baker-Hytch (PhD Oxford) will be holding a conference on The Authenticity of Biblical Manuscripts at the Faculty of Letters. All welcome. LE: The conference has drawn a large student audience. Thank you all for your involvement.

On October 6th, 2017, the members of the CODEX centre involved in the TE 1795 project gave papers to the sixteenth conference of bibliology organised by the Library of the Romanian Academy, Cluj. Dr Adinel Dincă talked about dating and loocalising the Altemberger Codex; Dr Adrian Papahagi discussed the decoration of liturgical manuscripts from medievalContinue reading “CODEX members at bibliology conference in Cluj”

On Wednesday, 12 October 2017, Professor Hans Sauer (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich) will be lecturing on the most important Old English poem at the Faculty of Letters (Room Shakespeare, 10 am).

Between 27 February and 10 March 2017, Dr Adrian Papahagi taught a course of Codicology in Rome. Students from Austria, Norway, Romania, Spain and the United States, enrolled in the Diplôme Européen d’Études Médiévales (DEEM) learnt how to describe medieval manuscripts. We spent a week working with manuscripts at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma,Continue reading “Codicology Course in Rome”

Adrian Papahagi gave a paper on the “Lost Medieval and Renaissance Libraries of Transylvania” at a conference on Medieval and Renaissance Lost Libraries organised at the University of London, Senate House, on 12 July 2014. The research was supported by a grant from the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania (GTC 34019/2013). LE: The conference paperContinue reading “Conference about lost medieval libraries”

In its first congress, held in Paris in 1953, the Comité International de Paléographie Latine decided to produce an international codicological vocabulary. The task was assigned to Denis Muzerelle, who published his Vocabulaire codicologique in 1985. An Italian version, enriched by many additions, was published by Marilena Maniaci in 1996, and the landscape was completedContinue reading “The Codicological Vocabulary in Romanian”