Fragmentarium Laboratory for Medieval
Manuscript Fragments

Fragmentarium enables libraries, collectors, researchers and students to publish images of medieval manuscript fragments, allowing them to catalogue, describe, transcribe, assemble and re-use them. Read more

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Projects

Medieval Music Fragments from Württemberg Monasteries

The project conducts research and publication of until-now unknown medieval music fragments from Württemberg monasteries, which fragments are currently in the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, the Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg, and the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Show more

The “Bohn Fragment Collection” of the Stadtbibliothek Trier.

The Stadtbibliothek Trier possess an important collection of sources for the history of Gregorian chant: roughly 120 pieces of original fragments of parchment manuscripts, most from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. Many fragments survive… Show more

Fragments in Beneventan Minuscule

The project aims at the systematic identification, photographic documentation, and scientific description of manuscript fragments in Beneventan Minuscule (the script type specific to medieval Central-Southern Italy), with particular reference to those conserved in libraries and… Show more

Writing and History in the Fragments of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

The sub-project Retracing the Past will concentrate on fragment volumes in the fonds latin of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). These volumes contain approximately 30% of the total number of fragments so far identified… Show more

The Detached Fragments of the ULB Tirol

The Austrian National Bank project The Detached Fragments of the ULB Tirol and Their Digital Catalogue aims to describe and publish on Fragmentarium some 233 fragments over the course of the project (2018–2020). Show more

Fragments in Southern Brazil: The Memorial Jesuíta

The Library of Unisinos in Saõ Leopoldo hosts the Memorial Jesuíta, which holds some incunables and numerous early modern books bound in Europe and sent to Brazile in the nineteenth century. A survey has revealed… Show more

Fragmenta Bongarsiana

Fragmentarium, e-codices and the Burgerbibliothek Bern have facilitated the digitization of approximately 150 fragments of parchment, mostly from the collection of Jacques Bongars (1554-1612). Show more

Swiss Fragments from Fulda (Codices Fuldenses Helvetiae)

This project, a collaboration between e-codices and the Institut Bibliotheca Fuldensis provides digital access to the Fulda Manuscripts of Switzerland, in hopes of providing new impetus for investigating this scriptorium and library. Show more

Manuscript Fragments from Transylvania

Among the religious institutions of Cluj (Romania), St. Michael’s parish church, the Dominican and Franciscan convents, and the Benedictine abbey of Cluj-Mănăștur (established in the eleventh century) had significant book collections in the Middle Ages.… Show more

Ticinensia disiecta

The aim of the project is to inventory, catalogue and study fragments of codices and of other medieval documents that are conserved in libraries and archives located in the Canton of Ticino (Switzerland). The ultimate… Show more

Fellowships

Manuscript Fragments in Argentina

This project proposes a first-ever survey of public and private collections in Argentina, starting with institutions in Buenos Aires, Mendoza, and Córdoba. The manuscript fragments, both loose and in situ, will be identified, described, digitized,… Show more

Maculature in the van Buchell collection

This project proposes to investigate the collection of books of Hu(y)bert van Buchell (1513-1599), canon of St. Mary's Church in Utrecht, and the in-situ fragments ("Maculature") in their bindings. Show more

Fragments from the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

A collection of fragments have been detached from some 28 incunabula in the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Although these fragments have merely been inventoried, information concerning their host volumes… Show more

The Beginnings of the Fragment Collection of Leipzig University Library

The project explores the origins of the fragment collection of the Leipzig University Library, concentrating on seven soft-bound fascicles holding several groups of fragments. Show more

The Exeter Fragments Project

In spite of the importance and interest given to its books, Exeter Cathedral Library has a collection of medieval manuscript fragments that remains almost entirely unexplored. This project will publish fragments on Fragmentarium and produce… Show more

Medieval manuscript fragments of Teutonic Prussia

This project proposes to use in-situ manuscript fragments to illuminate understudied aspects of the history of medieval Prussia. It proposes to reveal the specificity of the local intellectual environments and the relations between them, to… Show more

News

2020

Aug

Tyrolean Fragment Project hits Homepage

The University of Innsbruck published on its homepage a German-language report on the Tyrolean Fragment Project, featuring the work of fragmentologist Claudia Sojer: https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/historische-detektivarbeit.html.de

2020

Jul

First Fragments from Retracing the Past Published

Fragmentarium published the first results of its project, "Retracing the Past: Writing and History in the Fragments of the Bibliothèque nationale de France", led by Dr. Laura Albiero and in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

2020

Apr

Stadtbibliothek Trier Publishes Bohn Fragments

Today, the Stadtbibliothek Trier published the fragments belonging to the Peter Bohn collection. Peter Bohn (1833-1925) taught at the Trier gymnasium and was one of the major figures in the restoration of the Gregorian Chant and the production of the Editio Vaticana. This collection of liturgical fragments formed part of his research tools... [more]

Events

2020

Oct

Upcoming Event

Fragmentarium Video Conferences

This Friday the first public lecture of “Fragmentarium Video Conferences” will take place. At regular intervals, Fragmentarium will organize lectures on different themes of fragmentology. The conferences will take place on Fridays and will last around 60 minutes, including discussion.

Dr. Laura Albiero, Fragmentarium sub-project director, will give a lecture on the theme:

“Retracing the Past: Writing and History in the Fragments of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.”
Friday, 23 October at 16:00 CET.

Places are limited. Register via Zoom

2020

Oct

Polish Fragmentology

On Monday, October 5 at 11 AM, The Committee for the History of Science and Technology of the Polish Academy of Sciences will hold an online meeting (http://www.khnit.pan.pl/), in which the ongoing work of the manuscripta.pl project will be presented. The meeting will include a presentation on the study of fragments by Noted Fragmentologist, Paulina Pludra-Żuk.

2020

Aug

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Fragmentarium Cataloguing Course in Fribourg

Fragmentarium announces that registration is open for its Cataloguing course, "Digital beschreiben - Katalogisierungskurs für mittelalterliche Handschriftenfragmente", to be held at the Continuing Education Centre of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, on 27-28 August, 2020.

2020

Apr

Fragmentology Webinar this Thursday

Famed fragmentologist, Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, is hosting a Webinar this Thursdsay entitled "Fragments and Fragmentology in the Twenty-First Century".

When: Thursday, 23 April 2020, 10:00 AM PDT (1700 UTC, 19:00 Central European Time).

Where: Stanford University Libraries, Virtually

Publications

Fragmentology

Fragmentology is an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles and reviews concerning medieval manuscript fragments.

Latest issue:

Fragmentology #2 (2019). DOI: 10.24446/2ipg

W. Duba, “Fragmentarium”, Das Mittelalter 24 (2019): Digitale Mediavistik und der deutschsprachige Raum, 221–223. DOI: 10.1515/mial-2019-0015
P. Pludra-Żuk, “Czy potrzebna nam fragmentologia? Na marginesie pierwszego numeru pisma „Fragmentology““ (“Do We Need Fragmentology? Notes on the First Issue of the Journal ‘Fragmentology’”), Kwartalniak Historii Nauki i Techniki 64:4(2019), 173–182. DOI: 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.19.035.11043

Participation & Recruitment

Fragmentarium Cataloguing Courses

Scholars interested in an intensive two-day course on manuscript fragments and Fragmentarium may be interested in attending one of our cataloguing courses, where they will undergo intensive training in how to describe and encode manuscript fragments.