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

Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT)

Plainchant, that is, liturgical music from the European Middle Ages, travelled geographically and temporally, taking on new meaning and languages through religious reforms in Europe, international trade, and above all, colonialism. The Digital Analysis of… Show more

FIDEM Diplôme Européen d'Études Médiévales (DEEM)

Participants in the Fédération Internationale des Institutes d'Études Médiévales, Diplôme Européen des Études Médiévales (DEEM), Codicology 1 Course, used Fragmentarium to describe and publish images of manuscript fragments. Show more

University College Dublin: Medieval Manuscript Fragments

This is a workshop-style module which focuses on palaeographical skills and knowledge of manuscripts in a research environment. Working with medieval manuscript fragments selected by the course coordinator and librarian, the module introduces students to… Show more

Manuscript Studies at the University of Victoria

Prof. Adrienne Williams Boyarin works in collaboration with Fragmentarium and UVic's Special Collections and University Archives to teach students about UVic fragments, fragmentology, and the Fragmentarium CMS. Students in her courses research UVic fragments and… Show more

The Medieval Manuscript from Charlemagne to Gutenberg

Since the Fall of 2017, the final project in the course LIS 464 has been a virtual Fragmentarium-based reconstruction of one of the Books of Hours dismembered by Otto F. Ege in the mid-twentieth century. For… Show more

Fragmenta Iguvina – Manuscript Fragments from Gubbio

This project’s objectives are the identification, the digitisation, and online dissemination – via the Fragmentarium – of the rich collection of medieval manuscript fragments found in the archive of the Biblioteca Comunale Sperelliana, in Gubbio.… Show more

Manuscripts across the seas

The project will develop the first catalogue of early modern manuscript fragments in Australian and New Zealand library collections. It builds on preliminary work to produce an inventory of the small holdings of fragments in… Show more

Comites latentes: Hidden Manuscripts Revealed

The ‘Comites latentes’ project catalogues medieval and early modern manuscripts in the collections of church institutions and organisations in Flanders, as well as about 1500 medieval fragments held in public collections across Flanders. Show more

The Digitisation of Samuel Pepys's 'Calligraphical' Fragments

The Pepys Library holds a number of manuscript and printed book fragments which were deliberately collected and arranged by Samuel Pepys into his ‘Calligraphicall Collection’ albums. The albums were compiled by Pepys in 1700 with… Show more

Manuscript fragments in Slovakia

The project publishes non-notated fragments from various institutions in Slovakia. The first two participating institutions are the Košice City Archives and the Slovak National Museum – Museum Betliar, which between them have 22 fragments. Other… Show more

Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library

This project conducts research on manuscript fragments that are used in bindings of early print books from the Ripon Cathedral Library Collection. The project is envisaged as long-term, taking into account contributions from Leeds students… Show more

Fragmentology: Scientific Analysis of Medieval Manuscript Fragments

On September 13, 2023, early-career researchers (advanced students and doctoral candidats) from universities in Switzerland, Germany and Spain met at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) for a full-day workshop on medieval German manuscript fragments and… 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

Hidden and Uncatalogued Fragment Collections: The Abbey of Stams (O. Cist.)

This project proposes to conduct a first survey of the fragments, organizing them according to paleographical and linguistic criteria, as well as content. In the first project phase, the fragments were assigned shelfmarks, 262 of… Show more

Fragmenta Thurgoviana

In situ and detached fragments from the Cantonal Library of Thurgau in Frauenfeld. Show more

News

2025

Jul

Fragmentology in Fragmentarium

The SOAP2 Platform, which publishes the Fragmentology e-journal (https://www.fragmentology.ms), is currently undergoing major emergency maintenance. In the meantime, all issues of Fragmentology, including downloadable PDFs, have been published on Fragmentarium. For submissions and inquiries, the Fragmentology team can be reached at fragmentarium@unifr.ch.

2024

Dec

Fragmentology #7 (2024) Published

The latest issue of the scholarly journal dedicated to Fragments, Fragmentology, has been published, with an array of articles on fragments in situ in prints and manuscripts, online and in-person, liturgical and profane! Explore it today.

2024

Jan

N-Psalter Surfaces in Alkmaar

From the University of Leiden, Dr. Thijs Porck has published newly discovered fragments of the Anglo-Saxon glossed Psalter known as the N-Psalter. These fragments, which can be viewed on Fragmentarium [F-7006], join the ones from Elbląg [F-x8t7] as the latest discoveries from this book. Porck has published a study of the Alkmaar fragments in Open Access in Anglo-Saxon England: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675123000121. See also the University of Leiden's press release.

2023

Jun

Article on Ticinensia disiecta and Fragmentology

Marina Bernasconi Reusser, Renzo Iacobucci, and Laura Luraschi, the motive forces behind the Fragmentarium partner project Ticinensia disiecta, have published a discussion of their project, its results, and the importance of the study of medieval fragments in the latest issue of Fogli.

Events

2025

Mar

Fran Álvarez, "The Importance of Being a Host" at the London Palaeography Seminar

Tuesday, March 11 at the London Palaeography Seminar, in person and online, noted Fragmentologist and Fragmentarium fellow Fran Álvarez will present, "The importance of being a host: new medieval fragments from the libraries of Exeter Cathedral and the University of Salamanca". To participate, register online.

2024

Jul

Fragmentarium Video Conferences: Leaves and Links

On Friday, 5 July 2024, at 17:00 Paris time, Anna de Bakker, Postdoctoral Researcher at DACT Project, Dalhousie University, will present "Leaves and Links: Enhancing Fragmentarium’s collection of musically-notated liturgical chant fragments." Registration via Zoom.

2024

Jun

“The Wonder of Working with Fragments” at LIPS 2024

The London International Palaeography 2024 Summer School has announced their program, including "The Wonder of Working with Fragments" taught by Dr. David Rundle on 7 June 2024, at the spectacular Senate House, University of London. Register for the course and wonder no more!

Short Courses LIPS is also running a range of short courses throughout 2024, including an online course "Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography (800-1500)", which links to the in-person LIPS course: "Books in Late Medieval Spain: A Palaeographical Introduction".

2024

Jun

Fragmentarium Video Conferences: Fragments in the Archives nationales

Lucie Moruzzis and Isabelle Scappazzoni, book and paper conservators at the Archives nationales, France, will present “Conserving, Restoring, and Documenting Fragments: the Case of the French National Archives” in the Fragmentarium Video Conferences series. The conference will be held on Friday, 7 June 2024, at 17:00 Paris time, 16:00 in the UK, 11:00 EDT, 8:00 PDT and 15:00Z.

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpcuutqzsuEt0t3XdESRKov98O1DE6viiL

2024

May

Fragmentarium Video Conferences: St. Gall Showcase

On Friday, May 31, at 17:00 Zürich time, 16:00 BST, 15:00Z, 11:00 EDT, and 8:00 PDT will be held the Fragmentarium Video Conference:

“Showcase of Newly-Published Fragments from St. Gall”

Featuring Chiara De Angelis (Università degli studi di Cassino), Philipp Lenz (Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen), Brigitte Roux (Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen), who will be presenting the recent publication of many of the famed fragments from the Ildefons von Arx fragment volumes of the Abbey Library of St. Gall.

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-GsqTwrGdCKXhGY84hSbnKNhEITJMPM

2024

Apr

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Fragmentarium at the Illuminated Cuttings Conference

At the end of April, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg is hosting a symposium on "Illuminated Cuttings", featuring a star-studded slate of speakers. At this event, Fragmentarium's Marina Bernasconi Reusser will present "Fragmentarium und das GNM. Die Möglichkeiten der digitalen Katalogisierung". The full program is available on the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg's website.

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.