I'm delighted to announce the publication of the first article in the project 'A Partial Survey of Continental Scribal Centres Writing Caroline Minuscule, c. 700 – 1000', run by the Network for the Study of Caroline Minuscule (NSCM), at http://litteracarolina.upenndigitalscholarship.org/survey-project/scribal-centres. The article on Werden, by Max Schmitz, is now available to download under a CC BY-NC-CA license. It brings together a full list of the fragments and manuscripts written in Caroline minuscule associated with the scribal centre at Werden to c. 1000, all searchable on our online database, making it a valuable resource. A full introduction to the project is also downloadable; it is recommended that you read this first, as it contains important information about the structure of the articles.

Forthcoming articles will cover Freising, Metz and Lorsch. Several scribal centres are still unassigned, and expressions of interest for these are welcome; please visit the website for more details.

Our grateful thanks go to APICES for the J.M.M. Hermans grant, which funded this project.

In addition to the survey project, the NSCM website now offers a brief guide to Caroline minuscule script, as well as a blog series on European research libraries, written as a guide to visiting and working in these libraries by researchers who have travelled there in person. These may be of particular interest to students and early-career scholars.

Best wishes,

Anna Dorofeeva

carolineminuscule@gmail.com