The National Library of Norway, in collaboration with CODICUM project, organizes a heritage science seminar on the materiality of medieval manuscripts and book fragments. The seminar will highlight recent advances in heritage science and provide opportunities to discuss methodological challenges. 

Among the earliest material witnesses to Christianity in Scandinavia are fragments of missals and other liturgical books: missals, lectionaries, and other manuscripts used in ecclesiastical and monastic settings. These fragments provide unique evidence, not only for transmission of texts and liturgical practices, but also for the early networks during the formative centuries of the Scandinavian Church. These early networks and their books  will be explored more closely in this conference.