Rare Book School 2026

Reposted with permission of The RBS Programs Team at the University of Virginia

Greetings from Rare Book School! Dive into the world of book history with a Rare Book School course this summer! Our five-day intensive courses on the history of manuscript, print, and digital materials will be offered online and in person at the University of Virginia and our partner institutions.  Among our forty-six courses, we are pleased to offer several pertinent to those studying medieval texts. The following are a few of the upcoming RBS offerings:

• M-10: Introduction to Paleography, 800–1500, taught by Lisa Fagin Davis (Executive Director of The Medieval Academy of America) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

• H-195: Transmission of the Bible from the Beginnings to 1500, taught by Peter Toth (Cornelia Starks Curator of Greek Collections at the Bodleian) at Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

• H-25: Fifteenth-Century Books in Print & Manuscript, taught by Paul Needham (Scheide Librarian Emeritus at Princeton University) and Eric White (Scheide Librarian at Princeton University) at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

• M-60: Researching Medieval Manuscripts: From Cataloging to Cultural History, taught by David Rundle (Senior Lecturer in Latin and Paleography at the University of Kent) at Oxford University in Oxford, UK.

• M-65v: From Poggio to Mabillon: The Study of Latin Manuscripts in the First Age of Print, taught by Anthony Grafton (Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University) online.

• M-70. The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts, taught by Heather Wolfe (Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

• M-20: Seminar in Western Codicology, taught by M. Michèle Mulchahey (Leonard E. Boyle Chair in Manuscript Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Please feel free to browse all of our upcoming courses by visiting our course schedule: https://rarebookschool.org/schedule/. Course applications should be submitted no later than 17 February to be considered in the first round of admissions decisions. We will review applications received after this date on a rolling basis. Visit our website at www.rarebookschool.org for course details, application instructions, and past student evaluations. Contact us at rbsprograms@virginia.edu with any questions. Please share with interested colleagues, students, and friends. We hope to see you at Rare Book School soon! With kindest regards,   The RBS Programs Team at the University of Virginia