13 DECEMBER (Friday)
8.00 – 10.00 participant registration
10.00 – 10.30 welcoming the participants
10.30 – 12.30 Session I – introductory: Gothic bindings as a subject of research
10.30 – 10.55 dr Ewa Chlebus (Centrum Studiów Mediewistycznych KUL, Poland), The tegumentologist’s research-workshop: how to study Gothic bindings?
Session II: Collections of Gothic bindings
10.55 – 11.20 dr Jacek Tomaszewski (Polski Instytut Studiów nad Sztuką Świata, Poland), Medieval manuscript bindings in the collections of the National Library in Warsaw. Characteristics of the collection and outline of the research issues
11.20 – 11.45 dr Iryna Kachur (Lwowska Narodowa Naukowa Biblioteka Ukrainy im. W. Stefanyka, Ukraine), Gothic incunabula bindings from the collection of the W. Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine
11.45 – 12.10 Jolanta Sztuchlik (Książnica Cieszyńska, Poland), Gothic bindings in the library of Father Leopold Jan Szersznik
12.10 – 12.30 discussion
12.30 – 13.30 lunch
13.30 – 15.30 Session III, part 1: Phenomena – masters – works
13.30 – 13.55 Marzena Kamińska (Archiwum Państwowe w Toruniu, Poland), Medieval notebook, or wax tablets from the collection of the State Archives in Toruń
13.55 – 14.20 dr hab. Arkadiusz Wagner, prof. UMK (Instytut Badań Informacji i Komunikacji UMK w Toruniu, Poland), The pomegranate pattern in late Gothic bookbinding ornamentation
14.20 – 14.45 dr Joanna Milewska-Kozłowska (Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie, Poland), Pin bindings – book feet from the turn of the 15th and 16th c.
14.45 – 15.10 dr Radosław Franczak (Wydział Historii UAM w Poznaniu, Poland), Bookbinder of the tools with the „symbols of the four evangelists”. Characteristics of the Poznań workshop at the end of the Middle Ages
15.10 – 15.30 Discussion
15.30 – 16.00 coffee break
16.00 – 17.00 time off & preparation for the opening of the exhibition
17.00 Gregorian chant recital performed by Gregorian Schola Liquor Pacis under the direction of Father Maciej Kępczyński
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opening of the exhibition at the District Museum in Toruń entitled Gothic book bindings from the 13th – 16th centuries in the Toruń collections
18.30 banquet
14 DECEMBER (Saturday)
9.00 – 11.00 Session III, part 2: Phenomena – masters – works
9.00 – 9.25 dr Michał Muraszko (Instytut Badań Informacji i Komunikacji UMK w Toruniu, Poland), Bindings from the Cracow workshop of Monogramist IC
9.25 – 9.50 dr Miroslav Mysák (Muzeum umění Olomouc, Czechia), From Gothic to Renaissance: book binding in Brno at the turn of the 15th and 16th c.
9.50 – 10.05 Aleksandra Wajnert (Biblioteka Raczyńskich, UAM w Poznaniu, Poland), The pearl of Hungarian bookbinding art in the collection of the Raczyński Library in Poznań (announcement)
10.05 – 10.30 Andrea Vilcsek (National Széchényi Library, Budapest, Hungary), Hungarian Gothic bookbindings
10.30 – 10.55: discussion
10.55-11.25 coffee break
11.25 – 13.25 Session IV: Iconography of Gothic bindings
11.25 – 11.50 dr Arkadiusz Adamczuk (Biblioteka Uniwersytecka KUL, Poland), Gothic bindings in medieval and Renaissance painting and graphics. Iconographic reconnaissance
Session V: Gothic after Gothic
11.50 – 12.05 Monika Paś (Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Poland), Plaster copies of book bindings in the collection of the National Museum in Cracow (announcement)
Session VI: The conservation and monument studies perspective
12.05 – 12.30 Barbara Sciardi (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Italy), Study and minimum intervention of a very damaged gothic binding – BNCR, 204.7.G.22 (Leuven, 1568-1573)
12.30 – 12.55 mgr Barbara Gmińska-Nowak (Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania PAN, Zespół Interdyscyplinarnych Badań nad Antropocenem, Poland), dr hab. Juliusz Raczkowski, prof. UMK (Instytut Konserwatorstwa i Zabytkoznawstwa, Poland), Non-invasive dendrochronological studies of board covers as a tool for dating bindings and contributing to the studies perspective recognition of codices
12.55 – 13.15: discussion
13.15 – 13.30: PSummary of the proceedings and farewell to the conference participants
13.30 mini-lunch