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The Association Française pour l'Histoire et l'Etude du Papier et des Papeteries (AFHEPP) and the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM-CNRS/ENS) are jointly organising a one day conference which will take place in Paris on 13 October, 2023. This conference is part of a series of annual events (since 2014) dedicated to paper as a medium of thought and/or transformed material. 

BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE PORTUGAL: EXHIBITION | September 19th, 2023 - January 6th, 2024 | Exhibition room - Level 3 | Free admission. Musicological source criticism wanders along the path of the marks left by music through its authors, agents and producers. The paper and its types, the watermarks, the staves, the handwritings of composers and copyists, the papermakers, the Counts of Redondo, all intervene in the MARCMUS project (CESEM, NOVA FCSH). 

BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE PORTUGAL: INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM | September 19th, 2023 | 09:30am-5:00pm | Auditorium - Level 1. This colloquium will present some partial results of the work carried out throughout 2022 and 2023 and will mark the official launch of the MARCMUS project site.

Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare | Toscolano, Museo della Carta. Italy, September 6 - 8, 2023. The conference intends to bring together scholars, paper experts, conservators, curators, and others who work in watermark research or are interested in this topic. It will contain sessions with lectures, a guided tour through Verona and the Biblioteca Capitolare, and an excursion to Toscolano at the Lake Garda.

The XIV edition of the International Congress on the History of Paper in the Iberian Peninsula, entitled Paper, the bond between cultures: Arab, Jewish and Christian, will be held in Toledo on April 26, 27, 28, 2023. The MARCMUS project will be represented with the paper MARCMUS – For the creation of a Music Paper and Handwriting Centre (18th and 19th centuries).