#DigiBodAdvent day 3. Everybody loves fragments, and St John's have digitized a whole collection for you (MS. 235). Here are nos 72, Augustine In Evangelium Iohannis, and 18, "unidentified scholastic philosophy" 📜 digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/fa67... digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/1627...

Ce que vous voyez ici est une des pièces d'un manuscrit dispersé entre les États-Unis et l'Allemagne, dans trois bibliothèques différentes. C'est un des fragments du manuscrit Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, K I B 212.

The back cover of the new issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social features my predecessor, the late great Nigel Palmer, with an appeal for the travel fund being established in his name. For more on that, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... .

Heavily rubbed leaf with traces of use as a book cover. From a MS of the Latin encyclopaedia by Bartholomew the Englishman - Bartholomaeus Anglicus (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 860) digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

A small fragment of a very early edition of Flavius Josephus's works printed in the Low Countries in around 1475. The elegant pen-flourished initial probably saved this fragment... (GW M15163 - @enssib.bsky.social collection) #incunabula #incunable #fragmentology #fragments #bookhistory

This morning I am loving this choir book leaf which has, maybe?! I think?, guide marks that the music scribe added before entering notation 🥰 You can see these dark lines through the faded notation ink! @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

When asked just what do I do, I often utter darkly, “I rescue manuscripts before they become someone’s découpage project.” I never truly believed that anyone selling a fragment would encourage such a practice — then I saw this on eBay. Perfect entry for “10 Word Horror Story” contest. #fragmentology

I know about book breaking but had no idea that fragment breaking was a thing. A martyrology leaf offered recently by a respected dealer is now offered on eBay, having been recently (within the past 2 months) sliced in half. The other half has gone missing. *angry sigh* Caveat emptor fragmentorum.

Another incredible treasure from Grinnell, this time in the art collection, is this set of cuttings of the miniatures from what must have been a gorgeous book of hours! 🌟 (1985.003.001-009) #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

#Middelnederlands @fragmentarium.bsky.social #fragmentology

Delighted to announce that more than 80 MS fragments from Gubbio, dating to s. XI-XII, have just been published online, thanks to the hard work of my PhD student, Laura Rogari. You can access them on @fragmentarium.bsky.social: fragmentarium.ms/search?sQuer...

Sharing these after the fact because I was super busy looking at all their cool stuff! First, this bible fragment with VERY GOOD penwork. I mean… 😍😍😍 #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts

See you all soon!

Want to join the www.codicum.eu project? 3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills. #Medieval #Manuscript

Sermon by Bede, probably from a lost homiliary, in an elegant hand. This leaf survived as a book cover (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Ee 710-234) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00006D0B0...

See Irina Manea @shieldofskuld.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVNk... discussing MS. 8° 3895, HAGENES Codex which members of #CODICUM @erc.europa.eu we shown by Chiara Palandri of Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo. We each attempted to make a reconstruction of the Codex, some not as good as others...

Bifolium from a breviary used as cover material for a printed book (@unihalle.bsky.social, Cb 2246) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...

Some pastedowns from a typically glossed canon law manuscript, a.o. provisions about priests' testaments (Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek, I 118) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:h...

I had the best time examining some liturgical fragments in Kansalliskirjasto on Wednesday, ahead of the colloquium ‘Books, Music and the Liturgical Life of the Medieval Church’. After a fascinating day of papers yesterday, I’m excited to give my own today.

Petrus Pictor, popular poet from St Omer on the border of 12th-c Flanders and France, wrote rhyming Latin hexameters (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2849 & 1721 - also 1717-20) digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/ digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/

One book, two very different pastedowns. Leaf from a MS of the Breviarium in psalmos (Ps 107), attributed to Augustine or Jerome or Anonymous (Migne 26). And an attractive leaf from a later prayer book (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, G 1057) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...

Music to my Eyes I'd never seen this anonymous woodcut in a 1491 book at #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 571) or the music it is part of anywhere previously... has anyone else? Beautiful addition in any case! i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01... #BookWaste

Today’s #FragmentFriday is from the binding of LJS 470, which is a 16th century Italian collection, written in Hebrew, of medical and magical texts. The fragments are deep in the spine, and haven’t been cataloged or identified. Can you tell what this is? #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/43GkrIS

3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark! Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️ tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3

More @hsprtl.bsky.social: bifolium from the Expositio on Aristotle's Rhetoric (book II) by Aegidius Romanus aka Giles of Rome (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 2 a) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:u...

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

Unser neues Datenrelease ist live! Neu hinzugekommen sind u. a. 182 digitalisierte #Fragmente des Schlossmuseums Sondershausen, 679 Beschreibungen der @stabiberlin.bsky.social & 223 Digitalisate der #BSBMünchen.👉 handschriftenportal.de/info/release-notes #medievalsky @fragmentarium.bsky.social

Fragments in Göttingen! Valentina Pannini (28. Oktober 2025). Cataloguing Carlo Morbio’s Fragments Collection. Selten und Bemerkenswert . doi.org/10.58079/151zz

#MiddleDutch #fragment claxon!

Dioskurides-Fragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert entdeckt. Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica". www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/un... #histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory

spooky skeleton chant fragment #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

Not only MSS were used in early book bindings, incunabula leaves were recycled, too. Here is a short anthology! First, from the Corpus iuris civilis printed in Rom, 1476 (GW 7678). Only 15 copies are known! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Dq 8880) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001655D0...

Book Waste Bindings

Formation – Mittelalterliche Buchmalerei. Geschichte, Ikonographie, Technik, Stil. Eine Einführung rmblf.be/2025/10/28/f...

Fragments from a MS of later Latin poets: Eugen of Toledo, Fulco of Beauvais, Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbodus of Reims. Who sees more? (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2819-27) digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102848/en/ digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102852/en/

Found a joyful fragment in my collection: a 15th-century parchment leaf once reused in a bookbinding! 🎶 It preserves Tantum ergo Sacramentum — the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Aquinas — complete with neumes and traces of blind-stamped leather. #BookHistory #Fragmentology

This early 16th century collection of papal letters dealing with the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine has a secret - a scrap of unidentified earlier manuscript that lurks in the depths of the spine. What could it be? We don’t know. (UPenn Ms. Codex 85) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/473znDa

This #FragmentFriday is found in De Thiende (1585), a groundbreaking #mathematical book by Simon Stevin, introducing the decimal separator (now , or . ) for fractions. It has a 19th century library binding, but retains the medieval parchment wrappers it was originally bound in. 📚💙 📜

Due to popular demand the "Words on the Wave" exhibition will extend it's run until Monday 27th Oct. Don't miss your last chance to see these unique early medieval treasures at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

In this article rebooting the @ransomcenter.bsky.social's series on Not Even Past, @utaustin.bsky.social English Ph.D. student Kōan Brink writes about a surprising find in the gutters of a new acquisition: "The Chopped-Up Second Life of a Coverdale Bible." notevenpast.org/primary-sour...

I got distracted by some fragment work this evening, & I was happy to revisit this little detail from a fourteenth-century German breviary, containing the feast of the dedication of a church. [Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, RARA Musik M 4]

Details of a fragment from an Abbasid Qur’an 📚 Iron gall ink on perfect parchment 🐑 @theul.bsky.social MS Add.1118, 3/4th century AH/ 9/10th century CE #IslamicManuscript #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #Parchment #JummahMubarak

Handschriftenerschließung & -digitalisierung in deutschen Sammlungen: Auf den Projektseiten im #Handschriftenportal geben wir Überblick über laufende & abgeschlossene Projekte 👉 handschriftenportal.de/projects #medievalsky

Also under the hammer this week: a 17th-c printed law manual, bound in a bifolium from a MS of the Sentences commentary by Humbert of Preuilly!

around 1592 somebody used an antiphoner to be a cover for their college textbook. it really must have been a pretty big antiphoner, so one wonders how many other texts it was used for... #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

It's not always easy... This #FragmentFriday is about an unidentified Latin text, B 255483:fragm.306. The text is difficult to read and overprinted with red ink - indicating that the original sheet of #parchment was used as a #Frisket sheet for printing a book in red and black ink.

We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...

📢 Excited to share the full programme of our concluding conference!

happy feast day of st gereon, martyr at Cologne, from this fragment in Antwerp #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

Ok, people, here's my @utoronto.ca Medieval Studies #Voynich lecture! I've got BIG NEWS to report about the potential original structure of the manuscript. Check it out! (new material starts around minute 14) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH28...