Collection of fragments

Fragment collection is an ambiguous term. In the narrower sense, it is understood to be a collection of fragments of manuscripts made of parchment or paper , which as a rule have been detached from bindings for reasons of conservation or use and have been put together to form a separate collection. Since ancient or medieval manuscripts were often cut up and reused as bookbinding material ( parchment waste ), the fragments, possibly the only remnants of a destroyed manuscript or document , are of great importance in the history of script, tradition and library history and sometimes the only tradition of a text . Because of this importance, important fragments (vernacular texts, early manuscripts) were removed from the carrier volumes in the late 18th century and integrated into a separate collection.

Collections of fragments were created both in libraries , from whose holdings the fragments were removed, in archives , since archival material was also incorporated into waste, but also in the case of private individuals who set up such collections out of scientific interest or a private passion for collecting.

In addition, written records have sometimes survived outside of their natural tradition in the chancellery , archive and library, for example in depot finds in medieval castles , and have become the subject of medieval archeology.

literature

• Konrad Haebler : waste research. In: Central Journal for Libraries. 25, 1908, ISSN  0044-4081 , pp. 535-544.
• Mark Mersiowsky : When book people pick up knives: To reuse medieval books. In: www.flick-werk.net. The art of mending and recycling in historic Tyrol , ed. v. Siegfried de Rachewiltz u. Andreas Rauchegger in collaboration with Christiane Ganner (writings from the Landwirtschaftsmuseum Brunnenburg 15), Brunnenburg 2014, pp. 200–219 [1] .
• Neil R. Ker: Fragments of medieval manuscripts used as pastdowns in Oxford bindings with a survey of Oxford bindings, c. 1515-1620. Oxford bibliographical society, publications, 3rd series, Vol. 4, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-901420-55-7 .
• Hannes Obermair : Mosaic stones of the script. The late medieval document fragments from Tyrol Castle. In: Konrad Spindler (ed.): The secret of the Turris Parva. Traces of the high medieval past in Castle Tyrol (Nearchos, special issue 1). Innsbruck: Universitätsbuchhandlung Golf Verlag 1998. ISBN 3-900773-18-1 , pp. 128–140.
• Carla Meyer, Sandra Schultz, Bernd Schneidmüller (eds.): Paper in Medieval Europe: Production and Use (Materiale Textkulturen 7). New York: De Gruyter 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-037141-3 .
• Christian hosts, Kornelia Holzner-Tobisch, Renate Spreitzer (eds.): Fragments: dealing with incomplete sources in medieval research. Vienna: Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2010. ISBN 978-3-7001-6890-4

Web links

General:

• Blog introducing the American manuscript and fragment collections and their digital presentation
• International large-scale digital project for the collection and indexing of fragments

National platforms

• Fragments from Finland
• Fragments from Norway

Individual libraries and collections:

• Collection of the manuscript fragments of the Bonn University Library
• Digitized fragments of the Dillingen study library
• Collection of the manuscript fragments of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Collection of the manuscript fragments of the Erfurt City Archives
• Digital copies of the Frankfurt fragments
• Collection of the manuscript fragments of the Fulda State Library
• Catalog of the Classical Fragments of the Giessen University Library
• Restoration project for the Goettingen State and University Library
• Digitized fragments from the Finnish National Library Helsinki
• Fragments from the library of the Reichenau monastery on the website of the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe
• Overview of the fragments collection of the Leipzig University Library
• Link of the Leipzig project
• Fragments of the University College, London
• Collection of the manuscript fragments of the Bavarian State Library in Munich and links to the digitized material
• To the collection of fragments of the Bishop's Central Library in Regensburg
• Fragments exhibition of the State Library in Regensburg
• Collection of fragments from the Salzburg University Library
• Page on fragments of rubble in various libraries
• Collection of fragments from the University of Toronto
• Flyer on the manuscript fragments of the Trier City Library
• Fragments in the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel