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pieterbeullens.bsky.social
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)
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November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
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!
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#BookWaste
Madonna woodcut with the music, right side up, with several different parts including Discant, Alto and Bass. Closeup of woodcut image.
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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sims-mss.bsky.social
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

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November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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tainonen.bsky.social
3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!

Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️

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3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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pieterbeullens.bsky.social
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)
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November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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matthewholford.bsky.social
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.
A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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hsprtl.bsky.social
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
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November 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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
Cataloguing Carlo Morbio’s Fragments Collection
Every library or archive has its own collection of fragments, collections which – in my personal experience – very often have not yet been studied in depth and catalogued in detail. In the case...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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svanimpe.bsky.social
#MiddleDutch #fragment claxon!
pieterbeullens.bsky.social Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · Jan 19
A small riddle for your Sunday amusement. Are these binding leaves in Lower German? A Bible translation or commentary? For more text, follow the link! (@unipaderborn.bsky.social, Th 1477)
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November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Dioskurides-Fragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert entdeckt.
Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica".
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Unibibliothek entdeckt Pergamentfragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert
In der Bibliothek in Halle ist beim Digitalisieren eine Handschrift gefunden worden. Sie hatte als Einband reformatorischer Schriften gedient.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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spooky skeleton chant fragment #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
A leaf from a gradual (McGill MS Medieval 0064) with chants from the mass for the dead. The initial R frames a rather ghoulish skeletal figure, looking to the right and grinning. Perhaps he is a big Requiem fan.
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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pieterbeullens.bsky.social
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)
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October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Book Waste Bindings
Music manuscript on a recent binding. Two books bound (comparatively recently) in leaves from early printed and manuscript books.
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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rmblf.bsky.social
Formation – Mittelalterliche Buchmalerei. Geschichte, Ikonographie, Technik, Stil. Eine Einführung

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Formation – Mittelalterliche Buchmalerei. Geschichte, Ikonographie, Technik, Stil. Eine Einführung
Das 2007 gestartete SCRIPTO-Programm (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Palaeographical Tools) an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg strebt eine systematische f…
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October 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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pieterbeullens.bsky.social
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)
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October 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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oldpapercollector.bsky.social
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
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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sims-mss.bsky.social
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

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October 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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svanimpe.bsky.social
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.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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nmireland.bsky.social
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.
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Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe | Archaeology | National Museum of Ireland
Discover how science, art, archaeology and the study of script help reveal the links between Ireland and Europe
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October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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aarontpratt.bsky.social
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."

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Primary Source: The Chopped-Up Second Life of a Coverdale Bible - Not Even Past
This and other articles in Primary Source: History from the Ransom Center Stacks represent an ongoing partnership between Not Even Past and the Harry Ransom Center, a world-renowned humanities researc...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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hopesteffen.bsky.social
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]
Detail from a fragment of a manuscript fragment, showing the bottom of the front page of the book which is bound in the fragment. The edge of the page cuts through an initial O with floreate decorations in red ink around and within the O itself, which is in blue ink. Above the initial is the word 'Ymnus' (Hymn) in red, with the first word being 'Urbs', 'City'. Above this rubric are two lines of a praise of the Trinity with German muscial notation - looking a bit like brackets or pegs - in-between the text.
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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iamkristine.bsky.social
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
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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hsprtl.bsky.social
Handschriftenerschließung & -digitalisierung in deutschen Sammlungen: Auf den Projektseiten im #Handschriftenportal geben wir Überblick über laufende & abgeschlossene Projekte 👉 handschriftenportal.de/projects #medievalsky
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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pieterbeullens.bsky.social
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!
October 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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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-...
the cover of a splayed book. In the upper right, what would be the cover, is part of the verse "In omnem terram" in a large script; below it is the title of the book it bound in its second life, Exercitationes ethicae Goclenii (pub. 1592)
October 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM