On January 15, 2025, MARBAS steering committee member Helmut Reimitz co-organized an exchange workshop on the study of medieval manuscript cultures with the Institute of Medieval Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at the Charles University of Prague in Vienna. In the first session, the…

William (Will) Noel, the John T. Maltsberger III '55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University Library (PUL), passed away on April 29, following a tragic accident in Edinburgh, Scotland earlier in the month. Will helped shape the field of early book history and brought the subject of medieval manuscripts to hundreds of thousands of people. His immense impact on the world of special collections grew with each day’s energetic work. A visionary leader and scholar, and champion for open access, Will's influence on his colleagues and on Princeton's special and distinctive collections will continue to shape the way scholars and the public interact with Princeton's treasures for generations. 

Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, professor of Near Eastern studies and history, has been awarded the 2022 Haskins Medal by the Medieval Academy of America for her book “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue.”

Information: A Historical Companion, new volume co-edited by Anthony Grafton, has been published by Princeton University Press.

This collaborative volume traces the evolution of human approaches to gathering, storing and processing information…

Impagination: Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication, an interdisciplinary volume on codicology, philology and material culture co-edited by Anthony Grafton, has been published by De Gruyter publishing.

Marina Rustow, a founding member of MARBAS, successfully applied for $150,000 from the NEH Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities program on behalf of MARBAS. Of 81 submitted proposals, MARBAS is one of only 5 projects to receive funding.