* Outline:

- Codicology as a science, its theoretical and practical aspects
- Manuscript as a medium of book culture
- Excursion generally focused on manuscripts (including illuminations)
- Handwritten culture of the European Middle Ages, new function of manuscripts in the Early Modern Era
- Manuscript culture in the Czech Lands in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era
- Libraries and readership in the middle ages
- Anatomy of a manuscript book
- Manuscript book in terms of content
- Copy specific features of manuscript books (provenance, bookbinding)
- Excursion focused on copy specific features of manuscript books
- Decoration in the manuscript book
- The most important manuscript libraries in the world and their history
- Manuscript collections in the Czech Republic and their history