Antonia Foggia and Ada Migliazza, predoc researchers in SP 1 (Coordination Project), took part in the Summer School INtegrating TRAditional and Digital Approaches in Manuscript Studies (INTRADAMS), held at the University of Milan from 8th to 19th June 2026, in collaboration with the Department of History and Cultures of the University of Bologna and the University of Rochester (New York).

Over two weeks of lectures and hands-on exercises, the programme combined the traditional disciplines of manuscript study (palaeography, codicology, diplomatics and philological-textual analysis) with the digital and scientific methods now transforming the field: multispectral imaging of writing surfaces, non-invasive diagnostics, image processing, and the digital cataloguing of manuscript fragments and palimpsests. Course contents were developed together with leading institutions in the field, including the Biblioteca Trivulziana and the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, and the programme included study visits to the Capitulary Archive of Vercelli and the Capitulary Library of Verona, where participants worked directly with original manuscript heritage.

The competences acquired in Milan, from the digital capture and processing of manuscript images to the principles of digital cataloguing and critical editing, feed directly into the work on the digital platform of the SRA Neo-Latin in the Modern World. By strengthening the dialogue between traditional manuscript scholarship and digital infrastructures, this experience lays a concrete foundation for the further development of the platform and for future collaboration with major projects and institutions in the field.