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Bookbinding Studies

State of the Art and Prospects for New Research

Centre International de Codicologie’ 2025 Study Day

DiploMA (Ecole Française de Rome) – CaReMe (PDR FNRS)

Brussels, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) – Panorama Room (6th Floor)

November 28th, 2025

  9:00          Welcoming

  9:20  Introductory Remarks by Sara Lammens, Director General of KBR and Baudouin Van den Abeele, President of CIC

  9:40  Lieve Watteeuw (KULeuven), “The Impact of Book Restoration on the Study of Medieval Bookbindings: Historic and New Challenges”

10:00  Alberto Campagnolo (KULeuven) and Élodie Lévêque (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), “Traces of craftsmanship: Skins and structures in Cambrai’s Medieval manuscripts”

10:30  Coffee Break

11:00  Élodie Lévêque (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Jérémy Delmulle (CNRS/IRHT), “The Co3Dicology project: Building on six decades of French Medieval bookbinding research” 

11:20  Matthieu Pignot (UNamur) et Lucien Reynhout (KBR/ULB), “Les reliures à la loupe: apport des nouvelles techniques d’imagerie à l’étude des fonds de livres médiévaux de la Forêt de Soignes”

11:40  July Van Malderen and Tatiana Gersten (KBR), “Oldest Medieval Bindings in KBR: When One Book Structure Hides Another”

12:00  Nicholas Pickwoad (University of London), “Cataloguing and describing bookbindings. The ideal world meets practical reality”

12:30  Lunch Time

14:00  Karin Scheper (Universiteit Leiden), “Studying Manuscripts made in Islamic Lands: A Young Discipline in Development”

14:20  Mirjam Foot (University of London), “Decorated Bookbindings of the   Renaissance”

15:00  Guided Tour of the KBR Museum

16:30  Closing Drink

Free of Fees – Registration Mandatory

Please register by email at scriptorium@kbr.be before November 10th

For further information:

Alberto Campagnolo KULeuven, History of Church and Theology alberto.campagnolo@kuleuven.beLucien Reynhout KBR, Manuscripts and Rare Books lucien.reynhout@kbr.be