The Peripheral Manuscripts Project and Digital Scriptorium have joined forces to organize the following session at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, to be held May 14-16, 2026, in Kalamazoo, MI, and we are looking for submissions!
Medieval Manuscripts in North America, and How They Got Here
Recent regional digitization and description initiatives and national cataloguing efforts have increased the discoverability of medieval manuscript holdings in North American collections. Such projects have made more–and better–data about such manuscripts available, revealing complex histories of manuscript circulation on this continent. This session invites papers that explore the provenance histories of these items or collections and how those histories have shaped manuscript research in the US and Canada over the past century. We also welcome papers that present histories of rare book dealers and/or auction houses or that trace the collecting habits of individuals or institutions in North America.
Abstracts are due by September 15, 2025, and can be submitted here.
Questions can be directed to Elizabeth Hebbard (ehebbard@iu.edu), Sarah Noonan (snoonan@saintmarys.edu), and/or Lynn Ransom (lransom@upenn.edu)
Publishing in the Archives Profession 