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IMC 2026: Sessions

Session 1035: Digital Medieval Studies, I: Digital Approaches to Manuscripts

Wednesday 8 July 2026, 09:00-10:30

Sponsor:Digital Medievalist / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Organisers:Delphine Demelas, Digital Humanities Research Institute, University of Southampton
N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:Laura Morreale, Independent Scholar
Paper 1035-aTracing the Transmission of De Ordine ac Positione Stellarum in Signis
(Language: English)
Doris Magdalena Vickers, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1035-bStudying Textual Articulation and Navigational Aids: A Quantitative Approach for Long Durée Studies
(Language: English)
Janne van der Loop, Abteilung Buchwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1035-cScribal Detection and Profiling in St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 389 and Cod. Sang. 390
(Language: English)
Kyrie Bouressa, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media & Technology (CIRMMT), McGill University
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1035-dEpistolary Echoes: Digital Pathways into the Materiality of Manuscript Letters and Calligraphic Rubbings from Song China
(Language: English)
Lik Hang Tsui, Department of Chinese & History, City University of Hong Kong
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

The Digital Medieval Studies sessions bring together scholars interested in applying computational tools to medieval studies. The first session focuses on a variety of digital approaches to manuscript studies. Vickers provides a systematic analysis of the textual history of De Ordine ac Positione Stellarum in Signis, a ninth-century star catalogue in Latin, utilising both traditional and computational methods. Van der Loop offers a quantitative framework to examine the arrangement and frequency of paratextual elements in manuscripts and printed books such as paragraph marks and running titles through a case study of the Institutiones Iustinianae. Using two manuscripts from the St Gall Stiftsbibliothek collection, Bouressa discusses a digital methodology for detecting scribal changes in musical manuscripts, demonstrating how digital tools can assist in detecting patterns in musical scripts, production networks, and the circulation of musical knowledge. Tsui examines how digital tools enhance the systematic study of letters from the Song period (960–1279) in imperial China, offering new insights into their material features such as brushwork, seals, and paper textures.