News
On Wednesday, May 12, Fragmentarium director Prof. Dr. Christoph Flüeler organized a panel discussion "The Future of Digital Manuscript Libraries" at the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. The presentation of Marianna Stell, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, "Texans Textus: Joining the Past to the Future with Medieval Manuscript Fragments at the Library of Congress", is now available.
Fragmentology: A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments, an Open Access journal run by the Fragmentarium Project, has just published their 2020 issue, with a series of articles, a research note, and a book review on medieval manuscript fragments, the fragment trade, and the more.
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.
Events
Thursday and Friday, 21-22 October 2021, Prof. Dr. Christoph Flüeler, director of Fragmentarium, will lead a course introducing contemporary research on fragmentology as well as practical exercises for describing, relating, and digitally elaborating fragments on the Fragmentarium platform. The course, to be held in French, is hosted by the École nationale des chartes in their spectacular Rue de Richelieu center. Consult their site for information and enrollment.
Thursday and Friday, 16-17 September 2021, the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of will be hosting the two-day hybrid conference, From Fragment to Whole. Thursday's online conference features many world-leading fragmentologists and contributors to Fragmentarium, too many to name here. Those lucky enough to be present on Friday are promised a spectacular discussion among experts in the field. Registration for the online conference is open.
On Friday, June 18, at 16:00 Central European Summer Time, Dr. Godfried Croenen (Flemish Heritage Libraries / Vlaams Erfgoedbibliotheken) will deliver a talk on: "Late-Medieval Bookbinding, Paper Fragments, andd the ‘Medieval Manuscripts in Flemish Collections’ Project".
Registration is via Zoom .
Friday, May 28 at 1600 Central European Summer Time (1400Z), Dr. Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University) and Dr. Debra Lacoste (Cantus Database, University of Waterloo), Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT), will present the talk: "A Study of Two Fragments from the Binding of the Riesencodex".
Registration is via Zoom.
Publications
Fragmentology is an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles and reviews concerning medieval manuscript fragments.
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Participation & Recruitment
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.
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