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DEMONSTRATIVE WORKSHOP FOR BOOK BODY AND BOOK BINDING RESTORATION

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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DEMONSTRATIVE WORKSHOP OF MEDIEVAL CALLIGRAPHIC WRITING ON PAPER AND PARCHMENT

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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WORKSHOP FOR THE PRESENTATION OF PARCHMENT PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

Perfect successor of a long tradition of parchment production and processing, dating back to the beginning of the 14th century, Lucreția Miu, one of the very few masters of this increasingly rare craft in an age dominated by digital technologies, will coordinate two demonstration workshops in the framework of the exhibition organized within the project

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OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION AT MAIHAUGEN MUSEUM IN LILLEHAMMER

Bjerkaker LearningLab, together with the Maihaugen Museum in Lillehammer, invites you to participate to the opening of an exhibition organized within the international project entitled “FRAGMED – A Transylvanian puzzle. Reconstructing medieval culture from manuscript fragments” developed in partnership with the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch (Romania) and with the National Union Museum, Alba-Iulia (Romania). The

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OPENING OF THE IN SITU EXHIBITION “A TRANSYLVANIAN PUZZLE: RECONSTRUCTING MEDIEVAL CULTURE FROM MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS”

Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 4:00 p.m Library of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch M. Kogălniceanu Street, no. 12-14 Thanks to the FRAGMED project – “A Transylvanian puzzle: reconstructing medieval culture from manuscript fragments of codices”, financed by SEE Grants 2014 – 2021 within the RO-CULTURE Program, implemented by the Ministry of Culture – Project Management

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Staff training

One aim of the FRAGMED project is to train the staff at the Romanian Academy Library in Cluj. The librarians will be initiated into studying fragments of medieval manuscripts.  Thus, assoc. prof. Dr. habil. Adrian Papahagi (UBB-Cluj) held monthly training sessions with Dr. Bogdan Crăciun, head of Old Book Department at the Library. Project funded

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Manuscript at Batthyaneum Library in Alba Iulia, Fragments in Cluj

Three fragments of an old manuscript are kept inside some volumes at the Academy Library in Cluj. At a certain point, they are reunited with the mother book, which is kept at Batthyaneum Library in Alba Iulia. The event was filmed in late August.  (Next, one may watch a section from a documentary, displayed in

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Manuscript from Oradea found at Győr, Fragments in Cluj

Last week Adrian Papahagi was on the roads in Hungary and Austria. He was on the track of the medieval manuscripts originated from Transylvania and Crișana.  The researcher from Cluj even made a documentary film. Next year it will be presented at the opening of an exhibition that displays restored fragments due to FRAGMED project

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Report on Fragments at the Romanian Academy Library, Cluj–Napoca Office

The report deals with various methodological issues regarding the description of fragments from medieval manuscripts: text identification; date and location of fragments; recovery of original pages or bifolia (measures, paging, volume number, illustration and additional material); the origin, the location and the liturgical use; identification of fragments coming from the same manuscript (membra disjecta) that

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