Programme
Day 1
August 1st
Registration 9:00 - 9:15
9:15 - 9.45
Introduction
Introduction and agenda
What is palaeography?
A history of palaeography: then and now
9:45 - 10:30
Part 1: The Late Roman period
Materials: papyrus and parchment
Capitals and minuscules
Uncial and half-uncial
Break 10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 12:15
Part 2: The Early Medieval period
Codicology 101
Script varieties of the early Middle Ages
A look at Insular, Visigothic and Beneventan scripts
IIIF & Digitisation: the Durham Gospels
Lunch 12:15 - 13:15
13:15 - 14:45
Part 3: The script of the Carolingian world
The Carolingian Renaissance
The characteristics and evolution of the Caroline minuscule script
Late Caroline? Pre-Gothic? A transitional period
Break 14:45 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:00
Fragmentology and Annotations
Working with fragments and collections: Fragmentarium.ms and fragment collections at Keio University
Digital annotations: Archetype & IIIF
Q&A 16:00 - 16:30
Day 2
August 2nd*
13:00 - 14:30
Part 1: Caroline & Gothic Textualis materials
Hands on: Caroline minuscule materials from Keio University Library
What is Gothic? Key characteristics
Gothic Textualis: Northern & Southern
Hands on: Textualis materials from Keio University Library
Break 14:30 - 14:45
14:45 - 16:00
Part 2: Gothic Cursiva & Hybrida and Humanistic materials
Gothica Cursiva, Hybrida & Semihybrida
Introduction to Humanistic script
Hands on: Cursiva/Hybrida and Humanistic materials from Keio University Library
Q&A 16:00 - 16:30
*We will be working with materials from Keio University Library on Day 2 of the workshop. Photography of the materials is allowed only for personal use in research.