In addition, there might be further handling conventions if photographing material. Normally, written permission does not need to be sought if it is for personal research, but if you plan on uploading material to CENDARI and making it public (‘publishing’), contact the staff to confirm that you can have permission to do this, as it might fall under copyright rules and permissions and payment for publication might be needed. As always, check with the reading room staff before photographing any material. Many libraries and archives now allow personal photography of material for research purposes.
These rules might include the use of weights or ‘snakes’, cotton gloves for certain items, a ban on all ink pens even for taking personal notes, boxes for unbound material, or special regulations for opening rolls, maps or large items. Research if possible before visiting the institution, and always ask for either copy of their handling rules or a verbal explanation.
Medieval manuscripts research archive#
She has published on various aspects of her research and is currently working on a substantial study on diagrams and on a book on the medieval reception of Plato’s Timaeus and Calcidius’s Commentary on the Timaeus.The researcher, depending on the availability of their sources, will either transcribe material in situ in the reading room of the archive or library in question.Īll archives and libraries will have strict conventions for handling manuscript material. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and her research has since focused on the cognitive aspects of the manuscript folio, the nature of visual thinking, the visualising of philosophical and scientific concepts and the use of diagrams in medieval manuscripts of ancient and medieval philosophical and scientific texts. She has previously held research positions at the University of Cambridge, at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the Warburg Institute in London, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at the Collegium Budapest. The case studies focus on a smaller group of ancient and medieval philosophical and scientific texts over a longer period of the Middle Ages in order to examine the development of ideas and the conceptual adaptations to new intellectual environments and new audiences.Īnna Somfai teaches history and philosophy of science, medieval codicology and Latin palaeography at CEU and specialised courses at the Palaeography Summer School at London University.
It explores within this setup the concept and practice of visual thinking as an alternative to textual analysis, the connection between texts and diagrams and the nature and use of diagrams and diagrammatic reasoning.
The talk discusses a cognitive approach to the structure and layers of the medieval manuscript page layout as the immediate environment for the transmission of texts and images with broader implications for late ancient and medieval writing and reading practices. It also provides an opportunity through the examination of glosses for the study of individual reader reactions. Medieval manuscripts being handmade provide a physical and intellectual insight into the process of gradual change in the relationship between texts and their readers. The broad context of the talk is the transmission and reception of ancient and medieval philosophical and scientific texts within the physical framework of medieval manuscripts.
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