Posted September 9, 2026 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
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2026 Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the DS Membership will be held on Friday, September 18, 2026 in person in Rochester, NY, and online, hosted jointly by DS members University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology. To learn more about the meeting, and to register to attend (both online and in-person), please follow this link.
A working agenda for the 2026 meeting can be found here.
ICMS 2027 Call for Papers
On behalf of Digital Scriptorium and the Peripheral Manuscripts Project, please note the following CFP for a sponsored session at the 2027 International Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 13-15, 2027.
Call for Papers:
Manuscript Collecting in North America: Considering the Means, Motives, and Opportunities
Sponsored by Digital Scriptorium and the Peripheral Manuscripts Project
Regional and national efforts have recently increased the discoverability of the numerous medieval manuscript holdings found in North American collections. Such projects have made more–and better–data about North American manuscripts, revealing complex histories of manuscript circulation on this continent. We invite papers that consider the many motivations that drove collectors, booksellers, and institutions to acquire and trade manuscripts, including economic, political, and social factors relating to the dispersal of libraries and collections in Europe and the Middle East, and the less savory aspects of the trade such as book-breaking, theft, and graft.
Abstracts can be submitted via this link: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8428
Deadline for submission is September 15, 2026.
New Blog Post
In this month’s blog post, DS Fellow Kelly Tuttle does some investigation into similar stamps occurring across Persian manuscripts in DS collections. The impetus for this closer look was one of several Eureka Grant funded projects happening at DS member institutions. Check out her blog post here!