The series Studies in Manuscript Cultures (SMC) publishes monographs and collective volumes studying handwritten artefacts. It publishes research from disciplines such as art history, codicology, computer vision, epigraphy, history, material analysis, palaeography, and philology.

SMC encourages comparative approaches without regional, linguistic, temporal, or other limitations on the objects studied. It contributes to a larger historical and systematic survey of the role of written artefacts in ancient and modern cultures and in so doing, provides a new foundation for ongoing discussions in cultural studies.

SMC volumes are published Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. All proposals for the series will go through a peer review process. Further information on the series can be found here:
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/smc.html