Ligatus Summer School 2026

Rome, Italy

Week 1 (21 - 25 September): European Bookbinding 1450-1830

Week 2a (28 – 30 September): Linked Data for bookbinding description

Week 2b (30 September – 2 October): Eastern Mediterranean Bookbinding Structures

Symposium: 20 years of bookbinding studies - the contribution of the St Catherine's Monastery Library survey

provisional programme - registrations to open soon

Saturday 26th Sep 2026

Istituto Centrale per la Patologia degli Archivi e del Libro
Via Milano 76, 00184 Rome - Italy

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Rome, Italy
Technical University Graz
Vienna and Graz, Austria
Maurits Sabbe library
Leuven, Belgium
University of Barcelone courtyard
Barcelona, Spain
Athanasios Velios teaching the second week of the summer school
Dublin, Ireland
Image of a monitor symbolising online summer school
Online
Corona virus icon indicating cancelled summer school
Dublin, Ireland
Group photo of participants from week two
Krems, Austria
Group photo from week 2
Athens, Greece
Group photo from week 1 outside Norwich cathedral
Norwich, UK
Group photo at the National and University Library
Lisbon, Portugal
Group photo - second week
Zagreb, Croatia
Participants of the first week outside the building of the National Archives of Slovenia.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Surveying manuscripts at Carolina Rediviva
Uppsala, Sweden
Athanasios Velios and Georgios Boudalis with their workshop participants
Paris, France
Group photo outside the icon museum
Venice, Italy
Group photo
Wolfenbuttel, Germany
Group photo - Museum of Byzantine Culture
Thessaloniki, Greece
Group photo
Volos, Greece