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. Bringing together researchers, conservators, and heritage scholars, the event explores how parchment, pigments, and inks can reveal new insights into the production and use of books in the Middle Ages. 

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.