For those of you scoring at home, Fragmentarium passed 2500 documents in mid-December 2021. We doubled size in 20 months. #Fragmentology

Manuscript fragments used to guard a quire in the #LambethPalaceLibrary copy of Nuremberg Chronicles.

#fragmentology
#bookstodon
@bookstodon
#materiality

En faisant de la généalogie dans des registres paroissiaux du canton suisse de Lucerne, j'ai découvert un, puis deux, puis plusieurs fragments de manuscrits médiévaux. J'ai fini par explorer tous les registres du canton en ligne sur le FamilySearch (le site des Mormons), et j'ai trouvé trente-neuf fragments : trente-six fragments de manuscrits latins, trois de manuscrits hébreux. J'en ai fait la liste ici : https://scripturarum.hypotheses.org/848 #manuscrits #manuscripts #fragments #fragmentology

En faisant de la généalogie dans des registres paroissiaux du canton suisse de Lucerne, j'ai découvert un, puis deux, puis plusieurs fragments de manuscrits médiévaux. J'ai fini par explorer tous les registres du canton en ligne sur le FamilySearch (le site des Mormons), et j'ai trouvé trente-neuf fragments : trente-six fragments de manuscrits latins, trois de manuscrits hébreux. J'en ai fait la liste ici : https://scripturarum.hypotheses.org/848 #manuscrits #manuscripts #fragments #fragmentology
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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

Now preparing for the next exhibition, less than a week after installing the new one.
Can you guess the theme?

This parchment item was recycled into a use in a binding evidenced with creases and cuts.

Lambeth Palace Library [MS 1510 ff.20r-21r]

#Fragmentology
#Music
#ExhibitionPreparation
#Parchment
@histodons
@bookstodon

Announcing the publication of the 226 #OpenAccess digital edition in the #OldEnglish Poetry in Facsimile project.

For the first time, the Paris Psalter version & Junius 121 fragment (with 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

RT @SpColl_KULeuven
Can anyone help with the identification of this religious fragment? I can read most of the words, but can't find the text they come from. #Fragmentology #dta RT= nice, thank you!

RT @PieterBeullens
The conspicuous layout of a law MS (Codex Iustiniani) became an attractive cover for a printed book. (@UBBasel, UBH AN VI 242) #fragmentology
https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/thumbview/9777034

Are you interested in #fragmentology? This week's #imfmpod is for you! @hedgehoggled@twitter.com and I had a great time talking to @EJJohnson74@twitter.com of @OhioStateRBML@twitter.com about a couple of fragments from his personal collection, the ethics of collecting, and Ohio!

https://dotporter.podbean.com/e/episode-8-eric-johnson-on-manuscript-fragments-ohio-and-the-ethics-of-collecting

RT @PieterBeullens@twitter.com

Peeking out from an incunable binding are fragments from an annotated 13th-c MS of "De proprietatibus rerum" by Bartholomew the Englishman. (Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Inc. 17-12º) #fragmentology @IsabelDraelants@twitter.com
https://mdc.csuc.cat/digital/collection/incunableBC/id/52324

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PieterBeullens/status/1617779608769773568

RT @FarleyKatz1@twitter.com

Manuscript leaf of #Augustine's SERMO XLIV. De verbis Isaiae cap. LIII, v. 2-9, paras. 2-6, more or less. Used as a cover on a folio book; backside scraped nearly clean of text. XII c. #Fragmentology

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FarleyKatz1/status/1616931860445073408

RT @Trichocolea@twitter.com

In the Sloane Herbarium I periodically come across instances where parts of older printed books have been used for mounting specimens. So far I just use Google Books to identify the source text where I can. Here are a few examples @FragmentariumMS@twitter.com #fragmentology (1/4)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Trichocolea/status/1616719800734031874

RT @PieterBeullens@twitter.com

Book worms just love to digest canon law! (Biblioteca Pública del Estado en Soria, 25-H) #fragmentology
http://rabel.jcyl.es/cgi-bin/abnetopac?TITN=1614725

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PieterBeullens/status/1616337606756769792

New guidance finished and library training run due to increased use of UV devices in our Reading Room.

#HealthAndSafety
#Fluorescence
#MssFragments
#Fragmentology

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.

#manuscripts #fragmentology #receptiogate

@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.

RT @lisafdavis@twitter.com

Now that you #receptiogate obsessives know all about #fragmentology, say hello to my @SimmonsSLIS@twitter.com students' @FragmentariumMS@twitter.com reconstruction of #OttoEge no. 45, an early 15th-c. French Book of Hours that Ege dismembered in the 1940s. This is how we do it! https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-mp8l

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lisafdavis/status/1608591817397657601

RT @lisafdavis@twitter.com

Look, people, it's not that hard. The rules of #Fragmentology are simple and finite. 1) If you are going to piece a dismembered manuscript back together online, do it with intellectual honesty. https://twitter.com/mssprovenance/status/1607021687387611137

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lisafdavis/status/1607029106268569602

RT @lisafdavis@twitter.com

This is an important read. The project he cites is not innovative, ignores all of the #fragmentology best-practices that I and others have been working so hard to establish, plaigerizes @mssprovenance@twitter.com, and excuses that plaigerism by insisting that blogs don't count. https://twitter.com/mssprovenance/status/1606653720174944257

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lisafdavis/status/1606672745055621121