The international conference "Syriac Manuscripts. New Perspectives on Codicology and Philology", will take place on February 6 and 7, 2026, organized by SYRIACA – Association for the Study of Syriac Heritage, in collaboration with several European academic institutions.
The conference offers an up-to-date and interdisciplinary reflection on the Syriac manuscript tradition, with particular attention to codicology, paleography, and philology of texts, bringing together historical, material, and textual approaches. The two-day conference will bring together some of the leading international specialists in Syriac studies from European universities and research centers.
The Pontifical Oriental Institute will host the first day of the conference, Friday, February 6, 2026, in the Aula Magna. The sessions will focus on, among other things, Syriac paleography, manuscript structure, scribal practices, the historical contexts of text production and transmission, as well as case studies from Iraq, the Mosul area, and the East Syriac and Chaldean world.
The second day, Saturday, February 7, 2026, will take place at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) and will focus specifically on textual criticism, the manuscript tradition of major Syriac authors (including Bar 'Ebroyo and John of Apamea), as well as the liturgical transmission and reception of texts in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
The conference represents an important opportunity for scholarly encounters and interdisciplinary dialogue, of interest not only to scholars of Syriac language and literature, but also to those studying the history of Eastern Christianity, philology, liturgy, patristic theology, and manuscript tradition.
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Participation is free and open to all.