Events

An exhibition focussing on the writing culture of the Toba-Batak has been jointly curated by the Museum am Rothenbaum – Kunst und Kulturen der Welt (MARKK) and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC). Remarkable is the wide range of manuscripts and other written artefacts the Batak have produced. The exhibits include manuscripts made of tree bark, bone and bamboo as well as...

Dr Peter Zietlow (Hamburg): Identifying colourants - Non- and minimal-invasive analysis of pigments and dyes

Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau (Orléans): Colours on French local maps from 14th to 16th century

Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in whatever manuscript cultures and that they are composed of discrete elements, the issue of cohesion of these elements is a general and even universal one. Every manuscript culture has therefore developed physical devices to keep writing surfaces together and these devices can be generally categorized under binding. Like other features of manuscript...

Speaker: Roberta Zollo (Hamburg).

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Professor Dr Carla Lois (Buenos Aires): Latin American Independencies and Challenges for the “Yellow Spanish America”. The political use of colours in world maps in the 19th century.

Dr Nadja Danilenko (Hamburg): Color-coding the Islamic world. How the maps in the Book of Routes and Realms (10th c.) transformed during its transmission

Jun.-Prof. Dr Hanna Wimmer (Hamburg): 'Till we found a sea of green': Colour in medieval maps

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Professor Kam Wing Fung (Hongkong): Colours in East Asian Celestial Charts and Cartographical Maps

Drs Martijin Storms (Leiden): The meaning of colours on early modern property maps

Jun.-Prof. Dr Stephanie Zehnle (Kiel) : German Paper, Islamic Colours? African Maps of Cameroon

Éloi Ficquet, a scientist from the EHESS will give a lecture during a meeting of the"Field E: Archiving Artefacts" group.

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Dr Anna Boroffka (Hamburg) : Green pearls and blue waves: On the iconography of water in early colonial maps from Mexico

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Nick Millea (Oxford): From paint to pixels: pigment analysis on the medieval Gough Map of Great Britain

A workshop hosted  by David Holm and To Lang Nguyen

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A workshop by the Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts"

In this workshop we will examine and interpret the traces of archives and archival practices that survive in extant documentary corpora from the pre-modern Islamicate world. We will bring together scholars working with original documents in various languages and scripts (Persian, Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian) to...

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