The editors of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania are pleased to make the following announcements:

• The Fall 2017 issue is out! A list of contents and article abstracts are available here: https://mss.pennpress.org/current-issue-abstracts
• The Spring 2018 special issue will be devoted to the Galen Palimpsest Project. Don’t know what this project is? Subscribe to find out!
• We are seeking submissions for the Fall 2018 issue and beyond. Peer-reviewed articles for Fall 2018 are due soon (next week at the latest), but non-peer reviewed Annotations can be submitted up to February 1, 2018.  
• Thanks to a generous agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press, all Articles and Annotations in Manuscript Studies are made available on an open access basis after one year from the date of publication. Articles and Annotations from the 2016 Spring and Fall issues are now available for downloading and sharing on Penn’s Scholarly Commons repository. To access the pdfs, go to: http://repository.upenn.edu/mss_sims/

Manuscript Studies brings together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. This peer-reviewed journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those that explore the potential of new ones. We publish articles that engage in a larger conversation on manuscript culture and its continued relevance in today’s world and highlight the value of manuscript evidence in understanding our shared cultural and intellectual heritage. Studies that incorporate digital methodologies to further understanding of the physical and conceptual structures of the manuscript book are encouraged. A separate section, entitled Annotations, features research in progress and digital project reports.

For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org. For direct inquiries, please don't hesitate to contact the editors at sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu .