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.be | Lucien Reynhout KBR, Manuscripts and Rare Books lucien.reynhout@kbr.be |









