Fragmentarium

Work lately. Potential 17th c damage to 16th c recycle of 11th c martyrology.

U.K. team unlocks medieval mysteries via optics A combined multispectral imaging-led approach is bringing to light ancient artifacts discovered in the U.K.

Love applied tech stories like this, from Laser Focus World: "The team is using a blend of multispectral imaging and 3D modeling to recover lost text in a 13th-century manuscript fragment they discovered hidden in the binding of a 16th-century archival register." #history #imaging

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Today’s #FragmentFriday is Ms. Codex 1162, a single sheet of parchment from an undated medieval liturgical text used to cover late 16th century lecture notes on Aristotle’s Parva naturalia.

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Antiphon for Saint Peter in Messine notation, from a fragment now in Stuttgart. https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-nv2q/7528/60907

Antiphon for Saint Peter from a fragmented antiphoner from Northern France, now at the BnF. https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-6dhw/3153/34525

Mass introit for Petri ad Vincula, from a page of the Beauvais missal in Albany, NY https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-jfyx/2850/32642

Another BnF fragment; this one seems to have been re-used to bind some legal proceedings in June of 1687. https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-5z5i/3650/37891

this #fragmentfriday is the feast of St. Peter's Chains! it's what links these four fragments together.

Fragments from classical authors are rare! MS of Seneca's Letters 64 & 65 (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2855). The connection with Fragm. 1622 was not noticed.
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Something new to catalogue

Averroes, Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics: fragment from a MS of the Latin translation by Michael Scot (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1091)
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Have a digital stroll through the Cathedral Library of Esztergom (HU): codices (www.bibliotheca.hu/digitalis/ko...) and fragmenta (bibliotheca.hu/fragmenta/in...)!

🚨Important Gottschalk of Lambach update! 🚨(because I know there is literally nothing more important to you than the work of an Austrian Benedictine monk who lived 850 years ago). Here he is offering his work to us across the centuries:

#Illuminated #Manuscript reused as portable altar decoration! #Fragmentarium

Hinterer Buchspiegel des Bandes Inc 293, „De modo perveniendi ad veram et perfectam Dei et proximi dilectionem“. Darauf verleimt ein Teil einer älteren Pergament-Handschrift: Dante Alighieris „De Monarchia“.

Foto einer Büste von Dante Alighieri im Rokoko-Saal der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek. Im Hintergrund verschwommene historische Bücherregale.

Im hinteren Buchspiegel finden wir das Fragment einer Pergament-Handschrift: Ein Auszug aus Dante Alighieris „De Monarchia“, versehen mit Glossen am Rand:

Several staves of music containing Alleluia chants for the Saturday after Easter. The A of Alleluia is blue on the upper line and red several lines later; between them is a decorative H, for "Haec," in black and red. The notes have distinctive shapes: descending notes have a wiggle and a straight descending line, sort of like a right-angled 7, while many ascending neumes look a bit like a backwards L. You could probably play some sort of Chant Tetris with them.

some lovely German chant notation in this noted missal now in Toronto but originally from Würzburg (aka Herbipolis aka Plant City) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

Exhibit no. 3: I also got to see the single leaf from Boethius's De institutione arithmetica with Old Irish glosses.
This fragment was only discovered in the 1940s & edited by Martje Draak. It is therefore not in the Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus & very little known. (Sorry for the botched photo.)
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What a week we've had studying #fragmentology at Rare Book School! And since I wouldn't ask my students to do something I wouldn't do myself, here's MY final project: a fully discoverable @fragmentarium.bsky.social record of my Gottschalk bifolium! fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-i...

Over 300 medieval #manuscripts from the collection of the Cistercian Abbey of Stams now digitised.
Thanks for sharing, @buecherwurm99.bsky.social!

#medievalsky

Thumbnails of manuscripts images of the Keio university collection of Medieval Western Manuscripts! Including fragments of Aristotelica and Dutch books of hours.

Western Medieval Manuscripts (and fragments) @keiouniversity.bsky.social (Japan)! Enjoy a few spare minutes and browse this remarkable collection! Something for everyone's taste and interest!
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Just acquired this antiphonary leaf, featuring the Office of St Lawrence, it’s mounted in stained glass.

Have you ever seen a manuscript fragment reused like this? I’d love to hear from others who’ve encountered similar examples.

#manuscriptfragments #antiphonary #bookhistory #stainedglas

Day 2 at Rare Book School: Binding fragments! I was clearly very excited today, not only about this early Beneventan fragment but the fact that I successfully toggled from the laptop projector to the overhead camera. 🧵

IMC 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS: MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS. Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), Durham University. Building on the success of Medieval Fragments at the IMC 2025, we would like to invite expressions of interest for 2026. Fragments,ever present across a great number of materials, are unique and tantalising windows to the past. Surviving as insertions in later textiles, in later buildings or as parts of bindings in manuscripts, fragments offer us layers of meaning: what were they, originally? What was their original purpose? And their later purpose? How have they survived? We understand fragments as physical pieces of any material. Some suggested topics are: - Manuscript fragmentology: collections of or individual fragments; selling and acquiring fragments; palaeographical and codicological analysis of fragments. - Any medieval fragments: Including but not limited to archaeological, architectural, textile, manuscript and incunabula fragments from anywhere within the medieval period. - Meaning, lives and usage: reconstructing the original object; the meaning of the original and of the fragment; original and later life and use of the fragment. - Methodology: Methods and techniques to work with fragments, manuscript or otherwise, including digital methods and digital projects. Please send us a short abstract (c. 300 words) and CV to Dr Manuel Muñoz García (manuel.munoz-garcia@durham.ac.uk) no later than September 15. We look forward to hearing from you!

No rest for the wicked! We’re now reciving expressions of interest @imems.bsky.social for our session(s) at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 on MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS.

Have a look at our CfP, and do get in touch with any proposals or questions. Also, please share if you can!

e-codices is hiring, see bottom of webapps.unifr.ch/newsletter/c... 📚

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📢 On Thursday 31 July, Dr Joseph Mason will be
joining us to introduce our new exhibition, Sing
Joyfully.

He will talk about a newly discovered piece of
medieval polyphony found in Lambeth Palace Library’s
foundational printed collections.

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The cross-carpet and Chi-Rho pages in St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang 51, pp 6-7; © Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

Today we’ve turned a new illuminated page in the Irish Gospels of St Gall (Cod. Sang. 51).
Explore the beauty of cross-carpets and Chi-Rhos in our latest blog, then see them in person at Words on the Wave
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

Medieval Manuscript Fragments: Cataloging & Discoverability | Rare Book School Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 20–25 July 2025 Format: in person, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA Fee: $1,495 The study of medieval manuscript fragments has developed into its own ...

Off to Charlottesville to teach a week-long #Fragmentology intensive @rarebookschool.bsky.social. There's nothing like RBS: a community of like-minded bibliophiles learning together for eight hours a day! It is invigorating and inspiring (& exhausting). Can't wait! rarebookschool.org/courses/libr...

We're hiring for e-codices. The position is modest, but, hopefully it'll be the start of something big.

www.unifr.ch/sp/en/open-p...

[F-d720] Anthology of Poetry (Fragment), Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Library, Z113 .E33 1900z, No. 8. A manuscript leaf mounted in a frame with a label "Anthology of Poetry". The leaf is in Persian. The caption says (in part) "This work is from a book containing the poems of three hundred poets. The manuscript is in a well-written Nastaliq script. This leaf has small decorative elements and ruled lines of washed gold and color. With amazing skill and perfection each of the fine hairlines in the border is exactly superimposed on the corresponding one of the reverse side, thereby insuring perfect register on both sides of this fine, transparent paper. In the Islamic world, calligraphy was the most important art and examples in this fine Nastaliq script is greatly honored. Beauty was more important than legibility. This script was usually reserved for writing poetry because of its great beauty. This slanting manner of writing gave it the name of hanging writing." Just to be clear: Admittedly, like the author of the description, I don't read Persian either, but the script seems to me eminently legible. Perhaps I'm just ignorant. If you have an opinion based on experience, please let us know.

Update on Fragmentology (www.fragmentology.ms ): the journal's back online. Submissions at the moment can be made directly to fragmentarium@unifr.ch. In other news, Wesleyan UL has published their Ege "Oriental" leaves. We're always happy for help decolonizing them. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-d...

Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

Studying #earlymodern #bookhistory, #rarebooks, or print culture? Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus & the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library offer unmatched treasures.

Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜

Obviously, we should group the articles together by ranges and make it really nice. Baby steps!
The Fragmentology team can always be reached at fragmentarium@unifr.ch

A screenshot of a page from the platform Fragmentarium showing an entry for the Online, Open Access Journal Fragmentology. In the top left is a thumbnail of the table of contents for Issue 1 (2018), with a CC-BY image rights statement below it. In the center is the title "Fragmentology (Electronic Journal) - Codex, with a list of the issues, and on the right, clipped is a summary of the journal. Please submit.

Update on the Fragmentology Journal: We were just informed that maintenance on the SOAP2 Platform will last through the end of the week. Never fear! This is just an opportunity to put all of Fragmentology in Fragmentarium: fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...

[F-pp5u] Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Don. B III 13: Iohannes Cassianus, De institutis coenobiorum (Fragment). A leaf with a single column of 23 lines in Rhaetian minuscule: it kinda looks like a Northern Beneventan. There is an ornate initial I.

#FragmentOfTheDay: This 8C Rhaetian survivor was recovered in Donaueschingen and is now in Stuttgart. Marina Bernasconi Reusser virtually reconstructs this John Cassian with leaves from Frauenfeld, Solothurn, and Sarnen: fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-p.... Have you seen other fragments? #fragmentology

Beautiful canon table with apostolic symbols

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 27270; Ingolstadt Gospel Book (Fragment); mid 9th century; Ingolstadt (?); p.14