Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fragmentology, aggregated by home.social.
I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.
Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com
#fragmentology #bookhistory #incunabula #medievalists #blog #research #nuntastic
Fully funded Ph.D-position in Medieval Manuscript Studies at the University of Helsinki open for applications, https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Doctoral-Researcher-in-Medieval-Manuscript-Studies/1350966857/
The position is as part of the ERC-funded CODICUM-project.
Boosts welcome!
A 3-year post-doc position in manuscript/fragmentology studies is now open at the University of Southern Denmark, https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/da/sites/CX_1001/job/3352/
The position is part of the CODICUM-project, https://www.codicum.eu/
Unser neues Datenrelease ist live! Neu hinzugekommen sind u. a. 182 digitalisierte Fragmente des Schlossmuseums Sondershausen, 679 Beschreibungen der @stabi_berlin und 223 Digitalisate der @bsbmuenchen.
Release Notes 👉 https://handschriftenportal.de/info/release-notes
#Handschriftenportal #Fragmentology #Fragmente #Handschriften #DH #manuscripts #digitalhumanities
The CODICUM-project just released its first dataset, https://zenodo.org/records/17287665
It comprises c. 23000 medieval manuscript fragments from Swedish collections. The fragments were typically "reused" as account-book covers in the first 100 years after the Reformation.
As part of the project this dataset will be not only updated but we will also create combined Nordic datasets in order to support research into literary and book-production networks.
Today at the "Hottest Medieval Summer School" (name given to it by our guest lecturer as temperatures soar above 35 degrees Celsius) the students did some #fragmentology, discovering at the end that 6 of them had portions of the same #medieval #manuscript – which had been re-used in the same book binding later on! The descriptions will hopefully be published on @fragmentarium #SummerSchool25
Do you work in a library, archive or museum in the Nordic region, and have come across medieval books or manuscript fragments that you suspect are not yet catalogued anywhere?
Or do you work outside of the Nordic region, and have come across medieval books or manuscript fragments that you suspect have a connection to the Nordics?
If so, the CODICUM-project would like to hear from you! Contact info at https://www.codicum.eu/get-involved
Boosts welcome!
Keyhole surgery on old books leads to discovery of medieval fragments
Here's where I saw it: https://phys.org/news/2025-01-keyhole-surgery-discovery-medieval-fragments.html
Here's the citation for the article they're discussing:
Thijs Porck et al, Medieval Fragments Revealed with FragmEndoscopy, Fragmentology (2025). DOI: 10.24446/h9ht
Here's the amazing YouTube video! https://youtu.be/39FMuUGuzZk?si=e7EpnXvLdmlz82n4
#archives #SpecialCollections #MedievalManuscripts #fragmentology
From next year we'll be part of a new research project focused on identifying #medieval literary networks in the Nordic countries. The analyses will be based on fragments of manuscripts aka #fragmentology.
Press (release in Swedish) at https://riksarkivet.se/nyheter-och-press?item=120883
e-codices Spring Update is now Live!
https://e-codices.ch/en/list/all/LastUpdate
#Manuscripts #Fragments #Fragmentology
Very cool that the oldest known Polish prose text is actually assembled from binding fragments. It really highlights the importance of #fragmentology, and the possibility of more treasures hidden inside early modern book bindings.
The manuscript is digitised at https://polona.pl/item-view/032eb921-7c51-4d0e-a9aa-deb98a51cb4e?page=7.
@histodons @medievodons #palaeography #medieval #history
Something fun from #Fragmentology no. 6 released at the end of 2023: Elizabeth Mullins finds some 9C quire guards in some incunables held in the UC Dublin Library and makes a genuine archaeological join with strips in Auckland https://doi.org/10.24446/oedi
Fragments.
Ridgefield collector discovers 800-year-old musical transcripts hidden in books
#Fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts #SpecialCollections
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/ridgefield-collector-discovers-800-year-old-musical-transcripts-hidden-in-books/3156095/
For those of you scoring at home, Fragmentarium passed 2500 documents in mid-December 2021. We doubled size in 20 months. #Fragmentology
How to do things with your old accounting records (an old roll of accounts repurposed as a flyleaf in the Cartulary of Lacock Abbey). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Fragmentology #Recycling
@bookhistodons @medievodons
It has been amazing to watch this research unfold @uiowa
A Hospital Visit Reveals Medieval Secrets Hidden in Books #medievalManuscripts #SpecialCollections #Libraries #Fragmentology
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/science/medieval-books-hidden-manuscripts.html?smid=url-share
ICMS online!!
The virtual & hybrid talks from the International Congress of Medieval Studie are now online.
EG "Sex Magic and You: Experimental Ritual, Mythical Innovation and the Study of Medieval Religion" by Marla Segol
If you prefer a milder talk, I immodestly suggest Session 190 -- Manuscripts of the Phillipps collection - #Fragmentology. Toby Burrows on Bliss MSS, a team from USC, & my paper on PJ Caron, "The Villainous Librarian of Arras, France" circa 1816.
A (much-faded) fragment of a Corpus Iuris Civilis (France, c.1250–1300) rescued from a binding, and now held by the University of Victoria. #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Fragmentology
@bookhistodons @medievodons
A leaf from a manuscript of #Aristotle rescued from a binding, and now held by University of Victoria Special Collections (France, 13th century). #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #Fragmentology
@bookhistodons @medievodons
Sixteenth-century practice of the three Rs: reduce, #reuse, #recycle. #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #Fragmentology #BookHistory
@bookhistodons @medievodons
A little bit of fine detail from University of Victoria’s Special Collections. #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Fragmentology #macro
@bookhistodons @medievodons
Announcing the publication of the 226th #OpenAccess digital edition in the #OldEnglish Poetry in Facsimile project.
For the 1st time, the Paris Psalter version & Junius 121 fragment (w/ Latin glosses & Middle English revisions by the Tremulous Hand!) of Psalm 101 are edited together.
See it here: https://oepoetryfacsimile.org
That's now 17,965 lines / 58% of the OE poetic corpus edited to digital facsimile.
Manuscript >≠ Text
#manuscripts #DigitalHumanities #fragmentology #medieval @medievodons
Are you interested in #fragmentology? This week's #imfmpod is for you! @[email protected] and I had a great time talking to @[email protected] of @[email protected] about a couple of fragments from his personal collection, the ethics of collecting, and Ohio!
Last night I invented a new scientific procedure, which I call the Way Forward Rescue Method (all rights reserved for the next 20 years). Rather than reassemble manuscripts that were sold and dismembered in recent years, it focuses on manuscripts that are still intact and included in upcoming auctions (especially those with detailed catalogues written by expert consultants). Without revealing all the secrets of my new method, I can promise that it is highly efficient and teachable and should allow a graduate student under my guidance to produce a well-funded open-access digital edition in just 5-10 days, and without having to visit eBay even once.
Seriously: all literary and historical scholars, not just medievalists, should keep an eye on auctions that include manuscripts and try to obtain as much information and as many images as possible of interesting lots. This includes correspondences, which are likely to be dispersed by dealers.
@BraveInnovationist
To be fair, #receptiogate is a wild outlier - which is of course why it has drawn so much interest.
#codicology and especially #fragmentology are highly collaborative, highly engaged disciplines. They are extremely poor choices for anyone considered a plagiarism-fueled scam, precisely because we read the papers and care what they say.
Introducing the Cambridge University Library Additional Fragments Project or Three Lessons in #Fragmentology (blog post by Marie Turner)
#Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23644
Waste not, want not! Rescued from the binding of a book, this recycled fragment of a #medieval #manuscript was split down the middle, then mended with stitches in bright white thread—a beautiful contrast with the scruffy #parchment and faded ink. #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #Fragmentology #Repairs @bookhistodons @medievodons @bsbmuenchen
Medieval mark-up in a fragment of a Liber Sextus manuscript (with bonus #parchment damage). #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Fragmentology #LegalHistory #Law @bookhistodons @medievodons
In a rare instance (ba dum tiss) of timely insight, I've changed instances to #hcommons before making too many posts! I suppose reintroductions are in order.
I'm a PhD candidate studying the sociology and structure of the #RareBookTrade specifically focusing on #manuscripts , #fragmentology , and #bookbreaking. Here's hoping those tags fill up more! My background is in #materiality and #ManuscriptStudies, and I'm a private librarian by day. Part of #medievodons and #BookHistodons. I mostly post about #HeritageCrime of various forms, plus some photographic experimentation (and cats, of which I have two).
Pleased to meet you all!