[F-pp5u] Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Don. B III 13: Iohannes Cassianus, De institutis coenobiorum (Fragment). A leaf with a single column of 23 lines in Rhaetian minuscule: it kinda looks like a Northern Beneventan. There is an ornate initial I.

#FragmentOfTheDay: This 8C Rhaetian survivor was recovered in Donaueschingen and is now in Stuttgart. Marina Bernasconi Reusser virtually reconstructs this John Cassian with leaves from Frauenfeld, Solothurn, and Sarnen: fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-p.... Have you seen other fragments? #fragmentology

[F-dmut] Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 82, Wrapper. A parchment cover for a book, taken from a breviary. Two columns of 14th-century script can be seen, with red rubrics. On the bottom, in the middle, is the large embossed ownership mark/seal reading: Colleg: Can: Reg: Creuzling. on what used to be the spine is the shelfmark sticker X 82 Thurgau, indicating the current location in the Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau. Enjoy Leeds y'all!

#FragmentOfTheDay: This breviary leaf was used to wrap a 1481 print. For those of you unsure, the book was kept in the house of Austin Canons of Kreuzlingen. It looks like Martha, edition AH 28 #19. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-d... #Fragmentology

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 96, front and back pastedown-flyleaf. Virtual reconstruction of two parts of a bifolium that are still in situ in an incunable, revealing two columns of text per leaf, in a fourteenth-century scholastic script. On the left (verso) leaf, a rubric over the second column reads "Quotuplex sit futurum". On the right (recto) leaf, at the top, in the middle, is the title (in blank ink) P(er)eiar(meneias). The Recto A column begins with a five-line rubric lombard S for the incipit: Secundum Simplicium loyca est instrumentum intellectus dirigens ipsum in omnibus suis operationes; operationes autem sunt tres, ut patet tertio De anima.

#FragmentOfTheDay: 14C, Commentary on the De Interpretatione - #Perihermeneias, incipit: Secundum Simplicium loyca est instrumentum intellectus... bifolium bisected and glued to a binding. Any idea who wrote it? #Fragmentology fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-x...

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, FRG 216: A printed piece of paper, rolled on the side, folded in, missing the top and a woodcut in the top left corner. Some text describes when the major movable feasts occur, followed by a list of lunar-solar conjunctions and oppositions for the year, and then a list of opportune times for medical procedures January through December. At the bottom, a woodcut shows a figure holding a book and a ribbon, on which is written "Fortunate puer celi cui celi parent. Expectate venis"

#FragmentOfTheDay: This printed #Bloodletting Calendar can be dated to 1531 by combining the date of Easter with the phases of the moon. This is hugely important, using it on any other year could have unpleasant side effects. Pair with a Petite Sirah. #Fragmentology fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-j...

Orselina-Locarno, Biblioteca Madonna del Sasso, MdS 51 Aa 4/F1-4. The exposed spine of a 16C book, showing four strips of Caroline bound in there. A colorchecker classic and a ruler are also in the plane of the picture.

#FragmentOfTheDay: fragments appear in pre-industrial bookbindings. Fragment covers and pastedowns usually signify a cheap binding. But secrets lurk on the unseen spine. 10C rule of St. Benedict from Madonna del Sasso, Ticino. #Fragmentology fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-y...

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, CL 8438, Wrapper (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6vbs). A book, octavo-sized, that has been wrapped in a piece of parchment, half of which is visible here. Five sets of five staves, each with red lines and funky mensural notation, mostly what looks like maxima and breve.

#FragmentOfTheDay: Another Frauenfeld find. Wrapping Josse Clichtove's 1523 chart-topper Opusculum on War and Peace, this Passion is sure to please your friends who dig early #mensuralNotation and #polyphony. Late, early, or just on time, it's guaranteed to please. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...

Lectionary (Fragment), Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, FRG 209 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-mnm7). A bifolium with orange rubrics, single column text, 22 lines per page. Plain initials between two and three lines in height. The script is early Caroline, and the influence of the earlier, Alemannic script can be seen, notably in the -ri ligature. The inverted T can be seen on the other side, verso (left), lines 7-8, where the abundant goes submarine at the end. Lines 8-9 have an abundat, but that one stays Caroline. Have fun!

#FragmentOfTheDay: This glorious early-9C lectionary from a box in the Cantonal Library of Thurgau. Pair the closed and open As, looping, straight and inverted Ts with a 2020 Quintessenz Pinot Noir Gächlingen Reserve, AOC Schaffhausen. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-m... #Fragmentology

Chicago, University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Codex Ms 686, Box 2, Ms 55. A leaf from a medieval manuscript next to a color control card. The leaf has been ruled in dry point with writing above the top line. In something that looks like an Upper Rhineland early-13th century script, a series of poetic lines with some literal glosses to the right. Rubrics are to the left, and two initials are set off. Also, a rubric to the left marks some of the rhyming couplets.

#FragmentOfTheDay: Somehow the latest batch from the University of Chicago HHG SCRC slipped into the couch. Here's a ca.-1200 fragment of a Latin poem on Simony. Anyone seen anything like it? #Fragmentology
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Sacramentary (Fragment), Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 525, Front Pastedown. A leaf from an eleventh-century sacramentary for Epiphany and the Sunday after Epiphany, pasted down against an incunable board. Rubrics indicate the various parts.

#FragmentOfTheDay:
The front pastedown from a Frauenfeld incunable looks like it comes from an XI-c. Sacramentary, but the back one holds a surprise. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-k...

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, ALT FRG 57, bifolium front (detail 1). An 11th-century hand on a partial bifoium - the leaf on the right is cut off, and wholes for the sewing stations are visible. A ruler and colorchecker are in the picture.

#FragmentOfTheDay: This thing was in Frauenfeld. A bifolium was cut up and used in the binding of a book. When the book was rebound, they removed this piece, and three strips. Unrestored, this is what it looked like: fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-e...

Tübingen, Konviktsbibliothek Wilhelmsstift, KH 3214, back cover. book wrapping made of a fifteenth-century Missal. The center of the book is dominated by a large initial D, blue against a gold background in an alternating green and red frame. A floral motif runs across the top and the left. Above the initial D is the rubric: Dominica prima post octavas Penthecosten. to the right of the D the rest of the incipit appears vertically in alternativing red and blue letters, so that we read "Domine in tua". The text then begins on the line below the initial with "misericordia speravi" (although abbreviated), and there are five lines of text in total.

#FragmentOfTheDay: A large initial D on this fragment, the first on Fragmentarium from the Konviktsbibliothek Wilhelmsstift in Tübingen. May we have many more. #Fragmentology fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-x...

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, FRG Y 229, front – Eclipse calendar. Detail of part of a page, written in a 15th-century German hand, with four entries visible. For each entry, there is text in German, specifying the year, the month, and the day of the eclipse, along with a prompt for the viewer's evaluation to specify hour and minute (Stund and minuten). There is then a diagram of the predicted eclipse's extent (the top is totality, the others are partial). A column next to the diagram is either blank (for Solar eclipses) or "Mon" for lunar eclipses.

#FragmentOfTheDay: From the exciting collection of Frauenfeld fragments, this paper bifolium contains a list of lunar and solar eclipses predicted to be visible in Germany from October 24 1436 to February 3 1440. Why Germany? Who celebrates St. Columban on October 24?

Noah's ark.

Noah's Ark
Parchment · 1 fragment · 1350 – 1375 CE · 155 x 158 mm
#FragmentOfTheDay #Fragment #MedievalSky #Parchement

Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, Comites Latentes (Depositum des Historischen Museums Basel), CL 254
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A strip of parchment and a ruler against a black background. The parchment is held in place by some piece of metal. On closer inspetion, the parchment is trimmed from the inward-facing side of a bifolium of a 14C manuscript. The top and bottom have been trimmed, but four columns of text and two sewing stations are visible. The ink on the script has faded considerably, but the rubrics remain quite visible.

#FragmentOfTheDay: From Antwerp, this "Unidentified theological treatise", has on Recto A, the rubric. Mor. XXI and "Legitur quod sunt pisces in mari qui vocantur delphynes habentes? voces hominum..." kinda like Graz 1094, f. 152r ("Narrationes quaedam") any ideas? fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-m...

Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Fragm. 327 a-b: A small fragment of a manuscript, just over 13 cm wide, and maybe 4 cm long, with what looks to be a 13C copy of the Secret of Secrets. The Fragmentarium entry identifies it as the version with Roger Bacon's comments.

#FragmentOfTheDay: Fragment #7000 from Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, it's Bacon! Roger Bacon's edition and notes of the [Ps.-] Aristotelian Secreta Secretorum. Another milestone thanks to the #MMFC Project! fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-g...

Wiesbaden, Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek RheinMain, Hs. 2 (detached lower pastedown). A Single leaf photographed against a blue-green background; I wouldn't say turquoise, but the color is rather odd. Discoloration marks where things were attached to the binding.The entire page consists of text followed by three lines/staves with Southern German neumes. The red ink from the rubrics has faded, chants are begun with what looks to be three-line initials (therefore, rising into the neumes. On the left side are further neumes/differentiae with tonary letters. This is Fragment 1 from the article and [F-5goe] in Fragmentarium.

#FragmentOfTheDay, From @dact-fragments.bsky.social, De Bakker and Bain bring us an Antiphoner leaf contemporary to Hildegard of Bingen, from the same context, bound in the Riesencodex, the largest collection of Hildegard's works. See their study in Fragmentology #7 doi.org/10.24446/8ui3

Unidentified theological treatise (Fragment), Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1664 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-n8x6). This image is labeled fol. [1]v, but it clearly the recto. To be precise, this is a picture of the bottom-right part of a 14th-century flemish manuscript. An ample bottom and right side margin are visible, as is 30-31 lines of text a right column, with part of a left column visible. The fourth line down ends a section, and only the can-tare non debeatur is on the line; the rest of the line is blank, except for a rubric xiiii. The next line begins with a blue initial Q with red pen-flourishes. Alternating red and blue paraphs can be seen in the early-fourteenth century Gothic bookhand. A tear is visible at the bottom of the page, and that appears to be concealing part of the post-fragmentation annotations, undoubtedly referring to whatever the context of reuse was (looks 17C to me, but I'm allergic to modern bookhands).

#FragmentOfTheDay: This leaf from Gent has been recognized as being from a treatise involving questions on Simony (pictured: q. 14: Quid sit munus a lingua et quando in hoc committitur symonia, on the other side: q. 15 and 16), it's 14C and cites Aquinas' Summa. But what text?

Unidentified glosses on Decretum Gratiani (Fragment), Orselina-Locarno, Biblioteca Madonna del Sasso, MdS 16 Ga 8/F1-4 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-ja1n). A parchment cover is lifted up to reveal a manuscript fragment sewn into the head or tail of the binding. Two columns are visible in a Northern Italian 14th-century hand. From the Fragmenta Ticinensia project.

#FragmentOfTheDay: Under the covers, this printed 16th-century via Scoti Sentences Commentary, now in Orselina, is formally non-identical to a Decretum Commentary, but beyond that, we can't make heads or tails of it. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-j...

Denton, TX, University of North Texas Music Library, # 06-167. A single leaf of parchment with two columns written in an early-twelfth-century transitional gothic script, some of which has German neumes over the words. Rubricated initials stand in the margin, and additional rubrics are scattered through the text. This side had the nocturns for Palm Sunday. In the right column, a rubricated "Iohannem" appears before the reading from Matthew 21:1. The rubricator was supposed to have copied In IIIo N(octurn)o, or IIIus N(octurn)us, but read John instead. This fragment is not quite headed for stagelights and Learjets, but it's nice.

#FragmentOfTheDay: this leaf from a 12C S. German Breviary in U. of N. Texas Music Library is featured in a research note by @mfeustle.bsky.social in the latest issue of Fragmentology (doi.org/10.24446/ruw6). It's great! Is it the best ever to come out of Denton? fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-k...?