Established in 2016, in the picturesque city of Lugano (in Switzerland's southernmost Italian-speaking canton), in line with the Swiss Federal Act on the Promotion of Research and Innovation (RIPA), and with its own Statutes and Regulations, RECEPTIO is an independent, non-commercial research centre under private law (run by the International Philological Society), whose members do not receive any pecuniary benefit from their research activities.

The centre is committed to research in the field of Philology and Codicology. The level and quality of RECEPTIO's projects is comparable to that of research carried out by higher education research centres.

Our research centre has been organising annual seminars on codicological topics since 2019, attracting students and experts from all over the world. For the academic year 22-23, we are organising a seminar on:

Fragmentology

Medieval and Renaissance manuscript fragments can be an extremely interesting source of research and teaching. Our centre is particularly concerned with reconstructing entire Books of Hours from individual leaves for sale and auction at well-known antique galleries and auction houses. This webinar aims: - to bring together experts from around the world in the history of fragmentology, - to discuss and exchange strategies for finding and describing fragments, - and to present case studies and methodologies of digital fragmentology to students and all interested parties.

Papers can be presented in English, French, Spanish and Italian. Applications in one of these languages will be accepted until the deadline to inforeceptio.eu

The seminar will be held via Zoom from November 2022 to June 2023.