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Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments: https://fragmentarium.ms
posts currently by William Duba.
@visithmml.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialFragmented Beauty—an exhibition on manuscript fragments, spanning over 1,500 years.
View online: hmml.org/programs/exhibitions/fragmented-beauty
Pictured: a Latin manuscript fragment used as binding waste, 12th/13th century. (HMML 00658: https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/520714)
@fragmentarium.bsky.socialJust up on fragmentarium.ms : 68 spectacular fragments from Augsburg and 5 from Ottobeuren!
![Sakramentar (Fragment), Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, Cod.I.2.4.1 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-gzvv): The recto of the prior leaf of a bifolium, with a badass Deus monogram, weaturing a bird perched on the S, followed by qui hodie corda fidelium sancti spiritus inlus-[tratione]. The Fidelium gets properly psychedelic. Ninth century from Lorsch Abbey, a little faded, but still spry for 1100-something years old.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:zvhdyvd34yjytldmu6dm3u4b/bafkreib5sfsm4csomqveslmytwte75uzl5qvptstbqfhvfs3m3ukuju5ke@jpeg)
@pieterbeullens.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialNot keen on advertising auctions, but couldn't resist this one. Assorted bindings for a set of three volumes in modern Greek (Venice 1819). Nice example of manuscript recycling in the 19th century, a topic on which I have been working lately... (but shouldn't mention it here)
alde.fr/ventes/livre...
@carinr.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialI have questions about the audience for this book. Has anybody seen it? Any sign of a library ordering it? It looks from the TOC like it would be best suited to be a textbook, but I can't imagine any individual, must less a student, would buy it at this price. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270282...
@nposegay.northsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialThis is the oldest sample of Hebrew text with European musical notation. It's an autograph manuscript of Obadiah the Proselyte, a Norman-Italian priest who converted to Judaism in 1102. He traveled to Egypt and Syria, using his knowledge of Gregorian Chant to record Hebrew poetry. @theul.bsky.social
@farleypkatz.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.social#Manuscript_fragment, Florence, 3Q 12th c. The initial O has geometric decoration & vines, in a dark blue background. Pseudo-Chrysostomus, Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum, Homilia xxxv. cap xx. #fragmentology #paleography #medieval_manuscripts #medieval_paleography @fragmentarium.bsky.social
@zannavanloon.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialTiny title page pasted in Jan Moretus’ New Years gift for Christophe Plantin with title pages of all editions printed at the time at the Plantin Press.
@fragmentarium.bsky.socialAntiphonary, Septuagesima Sunday, chants at the end of Lauds (Simile est regnum caelorum cantusindex.org/id/004955) and for prime (Conventione cantusindex.org/id/001915). Nice title pages too. #fragmentology
@fragmentarium.bsky.socialRead: Open Access, Interoperability, or AI scrapers and agents: we only get two, at most. In other news, e-codices is currently suffering service interruptions from high-volume traffic. We are working to resolve the issues.
@uelizahnd.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialMaster in Reformed Studies
Geneva's Faculty of Theology and the @ihr-geneva.bsky.social launch a Master in Reformed Studies, starting Fall 2027. It will be international (all in English), interdisciplinary, and affordable. See www.unige.ch/theologie/en.... Share widely!
@book-historia.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialA sliver of an old almanac in this gutter 🌝
@pieterbeullens.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialPseudo-Albertus Magnus, Compendium theologicae veritatis (ed. Borgnet, vol. 34). Partial leaf with the prologue preceded by a table of contents. With later unrelated notes
(Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek @uni-jena.de, Ms. El. q. 6)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/HSP0004E2BD0...
@antiquaries.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialThis is one of 26 leaves of fragments of a 10th century Gregorian sacramentary, removed between 1773-1790 from the original binding of another manuscript, the Winton Domesday, where they formed the packing of the boards.
@fragmentarium.bsky.socialSeek refuge in McBride, the Hall of Mammals. And make sure to get a good diorama in the background. Blame it on the football.
@pieterbeullens.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialPatchwork of waste on the inner plates of this MS: a 14th-c copy of Alexander of VillaDei's Doctrinale with elaborate commentary gloss, and different copies of the Pauline epistles to Timotheus, one fairly old
(@jlugiessen.bsky.social, Hs 1105)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/HSP000655C10...
@themedievaldrk.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialThis article also serves as a shout-out to medievalists, who are all fragmentologists. You can't study printed horae (of any kind) using the most usual bibliographical methods bc they're quant-based. But medievalists are accustomed to working w/tatters. Good work can come of it- so reach into 16thc!
@pieterbeullens.bsky.socialReposted by @fragmentarium.bsky.socialA commentary on the Decretals gone to binding waste
(Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek, Th 6113)
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:h...
@fragmentarium.bsky.socialQuokkas are now back on their island, and e-codices is working again.
@fragmentarium.bsky.socialWednesday, same story. Quokkas got into the wiring. 0730z is again our estimate for recovery.
@fragmentarium.bsky.socialGood times never seemed so good!
