On 10 and 11 May, 2023, the Archiepiscopal College of Veszprém hosted the Sixth Scriptorium Conference. The scientific forum was organised by the Archdiocese of Veszprém, the Archiepiscopal College of Veszprém, the Veszprém Archdiocesan Archives, the National Catholic Collection Centre, the Department of Classics of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, and the Moravcsik Gyula Institute of the Research Centre for the Humanities. The central theme of the meeting was manuscript research, with a special focus on manuscripts of the ecclesiastic realm.

The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies was represented this year by five of our researchers.

The presentations of our colleagues were as follows:

Eszter Csontos: The familial and professional network of a 16th-century Persian scribe

Zsuzsanna Csorba: Glosses in the Arabic manuscript tradition: lessons of a medical work

András Mércz: Codicological curiosities of a newly discovered 13th-century manuscript with Pauline connection

Gyöngyi Oroszi: Lost in the ocean of stories: Characteristics of the manuscript tradition of the Thousand and One Nights and some issues of its scrutiny

Mónika Schönléber: In the pursuit of lost folios, or where does the Kitāb al-futūḥ begin?

The program of the conference is available here, while the Hungarian summaries of the presentations are published here.