Giovanna Murano is an expert in paleography and codicology, who has specialized in the history of the medieval universities and their books. Among her more than forty books and articles are Opere diffuse per exemplar e pecia (Turnhout, 2005), Copisti a Bologna: 1265-1270 (Turnhout, 2006), Autographa I.1: Giuristi, giudici e notai (sec. XII-XVI med.), a cura di G. Murano e G. Morelli (Bologna, 2012) and I consilia giuridici dalla tradizione manoscritta alla stampa, Reti medievali, 15, 1 (2014), pp. 241-277.
