Secondments
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Medieval Medicine in the Margins: A Secondment in Cambridge
My name is Karolina Szula. I am a PhD candidate in Literature Studies at the University of Wrocław and work in the Manuscript Department of the University Library in Wrocław.…
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The Objective Was Clear: Hunting for Old Czech Glosses in the Land of the Moa
During our travels across Australia and New Zealand, we suffered an acute overdose of omnipresent, gorgeously illuminated French and Flemish books of hours. Pretty pictures are nice, but after several…
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“Seek, and thou shalt either find, or fail.”
A seminar on medieval manuscripts was held at the University of Otago in Dunedin. The seminar concluded with a paper by Michal Kovář on the attribution of the early modern…
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Report from my PAMELA Stay at the Stift Klosterneuburg
The PAMELA stay at the Stift Klosterneuburg cannot be reduced to a single topic. The experience unfolds through different layers: the materiality of manuscripts, the craft of manuscript digitization, the…
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Chasing the Ars Moriendi at Klosterneuburg
This summer at Klosterneuburg Stift, I have been doing a little bit of everything. I traced the presence of Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl’s texts in the library’s rich manuscript collection (a…
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PAMELA Research Visits to Klosterneuburg and Vienna
The research visits to Klosterneuburg and Vienna were undertaken to strengthen collaborations with leading conservation and research institutions, exchange knowledge on current conservation practices, examine collections, and support ongoing study…
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A Paper Trail from the Priestly Ordination to a Defective Latrine
Sometime after the 9th of June 1426, a canon from Klosterneuburg wrote a note in one of his manuscripts: I was ordained to the priesthood on the day following Cathedra…
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Report on Secondment at Chorherrenstift Klosterneuburg
My secondment at Chorherrenstift Klosterneuburg took place from 21 March to 20 April 2026. During my stay, I divided my time between work on the PAMELA project and research for…
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The Layers of Age: A Secondment in Prague
From 8 February to 8 March 2026, Maria Theisen (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research, Vienna) spent her PAMELA secondment in Prague, working with colleagues at the National…
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Specialist Training in Papyrus Conservation at Heidelberg
In February 2026 Alice Evans and Lindsay McPherson, conservators at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK, travelled to Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany, as part of the PAMELA project to…