There are encounters that are measured not in hours, but in questions. On January 14, 2026, the visit of the 11th-grade students from “George Barițiu” High School in Cluj-Napoca, accompanied by their philosophy and social sciences teacher, Ioana Ciovârnache, to the exhibition “FRAGMED – A Transylvanian Puzzle: Reconstructing Medieval Culture from Manuscript Fragments” was such […]
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There are moments when the past no longer remains a simple lesson from a textbook, but becomes an almost living breath, a whisper that can be heard if one learns how to listen. We invite you to experience such a moment during a guided tour of the exhibition FRAGMED – A Transylvanian puzzle: reconstructing medieval
A group of students from “George Coșbuc” National College in Cluj-Napoca enjoyed a remarkable cultural experience on a day when they had the privilege of exploring the fascinating world of medieval manuscripts. Within the exhibition FRAGMED – A Transylvanian puzzle: reconstructing medieval culture from manuscript fragments, organized at the Library of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca
We invite you to embark on a captivating journey through time, where each parchment leaf conceals an untold story of medieval Cluj. Throughout January 2025, the Library of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch, Cluj-Napoca Branch, welcomes you on a fascinating journey into the past, offering guided tours of an exceptional exhibition of medieval manuscripts and
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We are delighted to invite you to a unique cultural experience within our exhibition of medieval books and manuscripts! Throughout January 2024, we invite you to join our bibliophiles for a series of guided tours designed to explore our fascinating exhibition of manuscript fragments reused in the 16th–17th centuries in the old schools of Cluj.
As they were restored at the National Unification Museum, Alba Iulia, the manuscript fragments were digitized, described and published on the Fragmentarium website (click on the image below). During the project, 32 classification files related to the manuscripts restored through the project were drafted. These requests for the classification of these manuscripts in the National
Event date: Monday, January 19 this year, time slot 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Event location: Romanian Academy Library, Cluj-Napoca Branch About the event Four representatives of the Old Books National Conservation and Restoration Center within the Alba-Iulia National Unification Museum, whose activity is dedicated to the identification of the factors of damage to objects
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On the 14th of November 2022, within the exhibition, the second demonstrative workshop of medieval calligraphy on paper and parchment was organized. The facilitator of the workshop, one of Romania’s best medievalists, shared the workshop participants some introductory elements of Latin Paleography, and, thereafter, he initiated them into the various writing styles used in the
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Event date: Monday, November 14 this year, time slot 8:30 – 11:00 Event location: Romanian Academy Library, Cluj-Napoca Branch With a solid medievalist training obtained as a former foreign student of the École Normale Supérieure and a scholarship holder of The Warburg Institute-London, Maison française d’Oxford and New Europe College-Bucharest and benefiting from a doctorate
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On October 7, 2022, another important event marked the exhibition activity of our project. In a public event with a large audience organized by the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch, respectively at the opening of the most important scientific event organized by the Project Promoter, a presentation of the collection of the 21 restored and exhibited
