The Balkan History Association, “Jan Stanislav” Institute of Slavistics in Bratislava and Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe (Ceraneum), Department of Slavic Philology at the University of Łódź invite you to submit papers referring to:

• material aspects of Cyrillic manuscripts (paleography, codicology, problems of catalogue description, early watermarks, binding, digitalizing process in the 21st century);
• visuality: illuminating and decoration (initials, head-pieces, borders, end-pieces, paragraphs, script as specific visuality);
• textuality (intros and colophons, maniculae, culture of reading, writing and early printing, text and image);
• migrations and collections (manuscripts’ change of place during their owners’ travels, wars and conflicts, collecting movements of the 19th-20th centuries, scientific expeditions, auctions, modern libraries, today’s collections of Cyrillic manuscripts);
• fragmentology (separation and damaging of codices, fragments in bindings, separated fragments, hypothetical and digital reconstruction of manuscripts).