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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 14h

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation

India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...

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Sarah Noonan @sarahloleet.bsky.social · 8h

Excited to be giving a talk about the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social at WashU later in the month! WashU is a round 2 partner, and we are thrilled to have them on board! library.washu.edu/events/medie...

Medieval Manuscripts at WashU - WashU Libraries

Tens of thousands of medieval manuscripts and documents have made their way from Europe to collections across North America. The Peripheral Manuscripts Project (2020-present) seeks to advance the stud...

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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social · 2d

New open-access publication: Discover how a multidisciplinary approach helped identify and contextualise three Qurʾānic parchment fragments from the University of Münster collection, revealing their shared origins in an Umayyad Qur’an:
www.nature.com/articles/s40...

From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān - npj Heritage Science

npj Heritage Science - From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 1d

Today I spent a lovely hour with this fragment, which contains part of the genealogy of Christ from the Gospel of Matthew. The square notation suggests that it might be a Danish manuscript, possibly early thirteenth century.

[Odense katedralskolebibliotek 25285]

Small book bound in a fragment from a liturgical manuscript with square notation.

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jldeuffic.bsky.social @jldeuffic.bsky.social · 2d

Fragment sermon @fragmentarium.bsky.social
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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 2d

This fragment from book 3 of Aristotle's Metaphysica in the Latin translation by Michael Scot is one of the new items in version 6.7 of my Supplementa tertia to Aristoteles Latinus Codices that was released today! (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1258)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 3d

The yearly update of the Supplementa tertia (v. 6.7) is out! Additions and corrections to the three published volumes of Aristoteles Latinus Codices, with plenty of hyperlinks to digital images! If you know or own other MSS of the medieval Latin Aristotle, please reach out!
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 3d

Incidentally, I am still looking for this MS!
I reached out to the Kristeller archives @columbiauniversity.bsky.social some time ago, but still waiting for the reply. I guess their staff are having a rough time!

Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · Jun 13

Kristeller (Iter Italicum V, 460b) gives a description of this unlocated MS of the Latin translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's De caelo. Anyone knows where it is now?
If you are a postdoc who wants to help with the critical edition, follow this account for a job opening, soon!

Description by Kristeller, Iter Italicum V, 460b, of an unlocated manuscript of the Latin translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's De caelo

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 6d

Leaf from an elegantly written 15th-c MS of the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, once used in a book binding as the traces on one side show (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 3142) #ClassicsBlueSky
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 10d

Unnoticed fragment from a medieval martyrology in German! One full MS is preserved in Jena (hence Jenaer Martyrologium), two other fragments are known. This one has many variants in the German dialect. Specialists' comments welcome!
fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...
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William Owen @wdowen.bsky.social · 10d

A puzzle for the weekend: Who wrote this salacious little ditty? Retrieved from the ashes of the fire that destroyed the North transept of the Crystal Palace, it's an autograph composition and libretto, 'Un po di bastone' (a little stick). Who then is the composer? eaho.substack.com/p/a-mystery-...

The mystery musical manuscript, charred by the Crystal Palace fire of 1866

Eliza's husband David Ogilvy was a director of the Crystal Palace. After a fire destroyed the north transept he chose to salvage the charred remains of a composition and libretto in Italian. Why?

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 13d

Coming up for auction: four leaves from a MS of the Modi significandi by Boethius of Dacia, one of the emblematic philosophers of the 13th c. No specific textual or aesthetic value, but the auctioneer rates them highly (est. 2000-3000 €)!
www.vdw-auctions.com/nl/veilingca...

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Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social · 13d

sorry, that was up ende at. My middle Dutch is even worse than my modern.

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Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social · 13d

I've updated the record. The fun is that now the text under the paper pastedown becomes legible (the left column is the continuation of the Daniel passage with the column break op en|de). Also, those stubs are formed by folding the leaf over itself and glueing it, since r/v are the same columns.

Middelnederlands lectionarium (Fragment), Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, C 41193. A paper pastedown on the back of a book. Some classmarks and ownership marks have been written on there, and the cover has been folded over the pastedown. Underneath the pastedown can be seen the thin outline of a manuscript leaf used as a hooked endleaf guard. A ruler is at the bottom of the picture.

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Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social · 13d

It's an excellent illustration of first and second intentions. The person sees an extramental object, which is the immediate foundation for first intentions ("Sortes", "Plato", "cat"); the manicule points to the act of observation, and that's the second intention ("individual", "species").

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Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social · 13d

Very cool! Will you be putting your notes into a description? we'll change the metadata accordingly.
That might even be enough to calculate the dimensions of the written area/lines per page.

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Remco Sleiderink @remcosleiderink.bsky.social · 13d

I solved a nice puzzle this morning: unidentified Middle Dutch religious text on @fragmentarium.bsky.social (Antwerp, EHC, cf. @svanimpe.bsky.social ) turns out to be a lectionarium, comparable to the 1348 Lectionarium Amstelodamense (but with interesting variants). fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-8...

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 14d

This fragment from a MS of Averroes' Canon contains remedies against various serpents' bites and their venoms. Interesting reading for your evening entertainment (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 511)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 14d

Is there an uncanny valley for fragments? Something that seems to be full of detail but isn't, in the same way that some things appear to be human but are not? This fragment points to yes.

Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 14d

There are several fragments that seem almost taunting in the way their information is barely attainable, where the wear & tear of ink & parchment seem to promise possibilities of deciphering that they are not going to provide in the end. This one is among them.

[Sveriges Riksarkiv Fr 25641]

Page from a medieval calendar, containing the feasts for March. The fragment is so badly worn that the few surviving entries are barely legible. The most legible text is the added entry of March 28, featuring a feast of Saint Ambrose of Milan.

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 14d

🧵Statistics from HMML's digital collections & imaging over the past fiscal year (FY2025—which ran from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025)...

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Prof. Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 15d

🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians

CMS; Bristol; University of Bristol; Medieval Studies; MA degree;

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 15d

FRAGMENTS GALORE 👇

Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social · 16d

Now that I'm back in the UK, a little announcement: I'll be speaking at the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar (Senate House Library) on Tues 30th. Expect fragments galore!

The event is held in person & online!
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Pieces of the past: the Small Fragment folder in the Rosenthal Collection at Keio University

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Carine van Rhijn🟥 @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social · 15d

Net afgestudeerd in de vroege middeleeuwen? Manuscripten-fanaat? Paleografie en Latijn? We hebben een part-time baan voor een Nederlandstalige getalenteerde duizendpoot: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...
Wie vragen heeft: emailen mag. En deel dit vooral. @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social

Junior Onderzoeker project Author Unknown - Huygens

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 15d

As I'm preparing for an upcoming talk, I have been reminded of my brief & unsuccessful attempt to identify the feasts indicated in this calendar fragment. It can be done, but it would require a lot of time & grey hairs.

[Sveriges Riksarkiv Fr 5739]

Fragment of a late medieval calendar - possibly fifteenth century - showing the feasts of the month of March. Because the calendar has been cut into a strip, only the ranks of the feasts can be identified, but not the feasts themselves.

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Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social · 16d

And fell down again. And restarting it -- it lasts less than a minute before it's blown off again.

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