INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE «WEST EUROPEAN MANUSCRIPTS AND CHARTERS FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD IN SAINT PETERSBURG COLLECTIONS. RESEARCH, CATALOGIZATION AND DIGITIZATION» (SAINT PETERSBURG, 19-22 SEPTEMBER 2019)

In September 2019, Saint Petersburg hosted an international conference on Latin paleography and diplomatics, organized by Saint Petersburg Institute of History (Russian Academy of Sciences) and German Historical Institute Moscow. The conference venues included Saint Petersburg Headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg Institute of History, and the State Hermitage Museum. About a half of the talks were held by Russian scholars, another half by paleographers from other European countries. The papers can be divided into three groups. The first one comprised presentations regarding Western European manuscripts kept in Saint Petersburg, as well as related codices or fragments from other places. A second group of papers considered charters and juridical codices. In the third group, running and recently terminated paleography-related projects from Western Europe were presented. Also, the participants discussed the perspectives of joint Russian-European projects concerning the study of manuscript fragments, as well as restoration and digitization of earliest Western European charters kept in Saint Petersburg Institute of History. Besides, the participants enjoyed four exhibitions of manuscripts, specially prepared at the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian National Library, Archives of Saint Petersburg Institute of History, and the Hermitage.

Latin paleography, codicology, diplomatics, manuscripts, charters