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Forgotten Books and New Life to Old Pieces. Fascination of Fragments
A quick question for manuscript people: can you think of any other examples where a scribe/translator notes *per manum* 'by the hand of' with a little drawing of a hand - as below?
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Wow, there’s a lot going on in this StanfordUL binding fragment—once the pastedown & spine strengthener for a Book of Hours(?) belonging to Charles Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury. It’s comprised of a leaf from the Great Bible (different from EEBO version) & a medieval fragment I’m working on. Fab, eh?
07.05.2025 14:25 — 👍 68 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 2
Leather embossed book-cover of the incorporation of hammermen with a metal plaque of a crowned hammer.
pen and ink sketch of a tree in a 16th C manuscript.
pen and ink sketch of a sun and a fleur-de-lys in a 16th C manuscript.
Fragment of a 15th C musical manuscript showing in the binding of a late 16 C manuscript.
Hiding in the NLS with the Minute Books of the Perth Incorporation of Hammermen. Particularly interested in a useful note of a book binder and parchment-maker admitted..
But also delighted by the additions of papal oak & sun king(?) sketches...Oh and lovely reused fragments of an older musical MS...
There was a time when textbooks in higher education looked like this! Some manuscript waste from a copy of Petrus Helias, Summa super Priscianum (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Mus. ant. theor. F 22)
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Coming soon! Our 2025 RGME visit to Vassar College to see Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts, fragments, and cuttings, with presentations about new research plus a roundtable. Sunday & Monday 4-5 May. Hybrid. #medievalmanuscripts #fragmentology #manuscripts manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
01.05.2025 09:38 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
2) Sitting on a panel discussing my @rarebookschool.bsky.social Fragmentology course, its curriculum, and its goals (Sat. at 3:30, same room). rarebookschool.org/courses/libr...
04.05.2025 12:04 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A bit of Chronicles, and rubric for a ferial reading. Red initial infilled with a ghostly seraphim, and text is in a fine, black protogothic script. Bristol Archives A/C/M/4/4.
First (pieces of a) breviary from medieval Bristol discovered, and she's a beaut! (Kath Thompson with the find, I'm just the identifier heh)
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
Several strips from a breviary used in a binding of a 15th century copy of Albertus Magnus; liturgical texts for Philip and James and Walpurga. Currently in Hungary but apparently at one time at the monastery of Ochsenhausen in Germany. https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-dd16
Page from a missal, now in eastern Slovakia, used to bind archival documents. Liturgical texts for May 1 feasts inc. Philip and James, Walpurga, Sigismund. https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-u17w/7914/62940
happy May from these two ex-book bindings with texts for saint Walpurga
02.05.2025 15:59 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A Cohort of Crispy Quotations! The Manipulus Florum by Thomas of Ireland covers a broad array of Christian and classical authors, and this printed Cicero book (Marienbibliothek Halle, T 3.114 8°)
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Also nice: the Electronic Manipulus florum Project: manipulus-project.wlu.ca
a piece of parchment extracted from a binding: one side is mostly straight, the other has large flaps, or maybe teeth like a jack-o-lantern. Readings and chants for the fourth week of Lent are on the parchment, along with their identification in a more modern handwriting (possibly in blue ballpoint pen).
part of a missal (with musical notation but no staff lines) formerly used in a binding. chants and readings for the 4th week of Lent.
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"Carta marina, a wallmap of Scandinavia, by Olaus Magnus. The caption reads : A Marine map and Description of the Northern Lands and of their Marvels, most carefully drawn up at Venice in the year 1539 through the generous assistance of the Most Honourable Lord Hieronymo Quirino." High Resolution Version
What a get! A complete, Super High Definition medieval map full of both sea and land monsters! Worth looking at for HOURS. Carta Marina, a wallmap of Scandinavia, by Olaus Magnus, 1539. This is a test to see how much Bsky compresses it #medievalmap #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #seamonsters
17.04.2025 05:09 — 👍 42 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 3
The story of the Passion made a strong impression on the media that had it covered. Lectionary leaf from Lk 23 (@unihalle.bsky.social, AB 181161)
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2 équipes du @CRC_officiel, CRCC et ECR (@philharmonie) poursuivent leur collaboration: acquisitions XRF sur la guitare de Stradivari du musée de la Musique : après un fragment de parchemin du XVe, à suivre.. @echard_jp @skirsch10,M. Radepont, O.Belhadj
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Poster for a workshop by me on "Digital Approaches to Manuscripts" on 10 April 2025 at the University of Gdańsk, featuring digital images of manuscripts taken by me with a digital microscope under different lights.
Poster for a lecture by me on "The Fragmentary History of the Book: Insights from Remnants of Medieval Manuscripts" on 11 April 2025 at the University of Gdańsk, featuring a detail from Lawrence, KS, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS E282 which shows fragments from a parchment manuscript repurposed as separate sewing guards and primary tackets in another fifteenth-century paper manuscript.
I am at the University of Gdańsk and having the best time talking about #manuscriptstudies #digitalhumanities #bookhistory and #fragments! Grateful for the invitation by @emijami.bsky.social! ♥️📚💻 + It's snowing and there's a flamingo statue in front of the Faculty of History building!🦩
#MedievalSky
Charte sur parchemin très lacunaire et abimée
[Charte]
🔍Aujourd'hui, les Archives de l'Eure vous présentent ce fragment mutilé d'une charte de Philippe le Bel, confirmant le « privilège de faire faire tout le charbon nécessaire pour la forge de l'abbaye » de Mortemer à Lisors.
A young woman, July Van Malderen, standing behind a table with four very old bindings.
The oldest binding of the Low Countries, a Carolingian binding from the 10th century from Saint-Omers (now North of France, then Flanders). KBR Ms. 8380-9012, Liber pontificalis, 10th century.
Close-up of the endband of the binding in the previous picture.
A treasure binding from the 12th century. The binding is completely covered in gold- and silvercoloured metal, topped with large gems (polished white rock crystal) and enameled decorations.
A day of looking at bookbindings at the Royal Library of Belgium, hosted by July Van Malderen! Showing here some of the oldest bindings in the KBR, including the oldest binding from the Low Countries.
📜 📚💙 💎 #BookHistory
Today's #FragmentFriday started out as a 14th century collection of laws, statutes and ordinances of Città di Castello, in Umbria in Italy, but more things were added in the 16th & 17th centuries (Ms. Codex 91)
🔗: bit.ly/44gRcNT
Heavily rubbed leaves from a MS of Ambrosius' De mysteriis, a text connected to the teaching of the catechumens during Lent (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Fh 4396<a>)
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Photograph of text from a medieval document. It reads: 'Item paid to John Hardourode, Cologner (i.e., someone from Cologne) for a letter of payment ?? £70 sterling payable the 14th day of July the said year'.
#MedievalSky - a plea for some transcription help! Can anyone decipher the abbreviation circled in red? For context, it's a set of accounts from the 1490s, this entry dealing with a letter of payment (or bill of exchange) #medieval #Skystorians #palaeography
05.04.2025 09:38 — 👍 3 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
Noah's ark.
Noah's Ark
Parchment · 1 fragment · 1350 – 1375 CE · 155 x 158 mm
#FragmentOfTheDay #Fragment #MedievalSky #Parchement
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, Comites Latentes (Depositum des Historischen Museums Basel), CL 254
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Piece of medieval manuscript fragment with written text on it
Piece of medieval manuscript fragment with written text on it
Upper cover of the Plantin binding with gold tooled French geometric patterns and a medaillon in the middle
#Medieval manuscript fragment alert! Is anyone able to identify this piece of manuscript fragment recovered from this Plantin binding?
#bookhistory #earlymodern #rarebooks 📚💙 📜
A strip of parchment visible in the back of a book binding with a line of text in Latin
A perfect start to my time in Purdue University Archives and Special Collections: a little binding fragment!!! This strip of parchment comes from beautiful 12th-century missal with the Secreta visible on this line "Suscipe domine munera que pro filii tui" 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 #medievalsky #medievalmss
03.04.2025 17:12 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Here's the outside and inside of The Collection's front cover, a reused parchment sheet from a butchered Medieval manuscript. The end of the Middle Ages, as marked by Reformation, wasn't even a century back when Bureus kept the notebook.
#books #history
Reliure page d’antiphonaire
Reliure notes XvIe siècle
Manuscrit liturgique XIVe siècle
Manuscrit musical XVe siècle
Dans les collections de théologie protestante (les côtes D2), quelques volumes reliés avec des remplois de manuscrits sur parchemin, depuis la grande feuille d’antiphonaire jusqu’aux notes humanistes … quelques jolies lettrines en passant !
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The litany of the saints is among the most ancient and emotional Christian liturgical texts, dating in the West to at least the AD 400s. In a book of hours, the litanies is a list of saints’ names expressed in hierarchical order and individual rank. These names were recited rhythmically as invocations, followed each time by <em>Ora pro nobis</em> (Pray for us). In this way, saints were called upon by sinners seeking forgiveness and salvation. <br> <br>The <em>bas-de-page</em> (lower margin), features an ape hunting wild boars: both animals were symbolic of vice and lust. Perhaps deriving from a fable, the scene could be amusing or diversionary, but it was likely instructive for the medieval owner of the book.
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.13.a
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Prof Tuomas Heikkilä and Dr Tuuli Kasso presenting their project.
Prof Tuomas Heikkilä and Dr Tuuli Kasso presented their CHARM project for studying the parchment and pigments in medieval manuscript #fragments and documents from Finland and Sweden with #biocodicology methods in Helsinki Medieval Materialities and Intellectualities #MeMI workshop earlier this week.
28.11.2024 10:10 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Detail showing manuscript fragment used in a 16th century binding
The book that just keeps giving - it also has manuscript fragment guards front and back #Fragments #Manuscript
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Joyeux/Happy « Hug a Medievalist Day 2025 » !
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