Session503
TitleMateriality of Manuscripts, I: Fragments
Date/TimeTuesday 5 July 2022: 09.00-10.30
 
OrganiserKatarzyna Anna Kapitan, Linacre College, University of Oxford
N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
 
Moderator/ChairKatarzyna Anna Kapitan, Linacre College, University of Oxford
 
Paper 503-a Offsets, Binding Holes, and Squares of White Tape: Material Evidence on the Leaves of the Beauvais Missal
(Language: English)
Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America, Massachusetts
Index Terms: Bibliography; Computing in Medieval Studies; Language and Literature - Latin; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 503-b Establishing and Categorising the Provenance of Liturgical Fragments: Case Studies from Marienberg and Tegernsee
(Language: English)
Arthur Westwell, Fakultät für Katholische Theologie, Universität Regensburg
Index Terms: Bibliography; Language and Literature - Latin; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 503-c Recycling and Upcycling Culture in the Middle Ages: Hidden Collections in the Bindings of Codices
(Language: English)
N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Index Terms: Bibliography; Computing in Medieval Studies; Language and Literature - Latin; Manuscripts and Palaeography
 
AbstractThe first of the sessions on the materiality of manuscripts is devoted to the growing field of fragmentology. Using the case of the dismembered Beauvais Missal, Davis explores how the material evidence retained on the leaves can help resolve ambiguities in the sequence, serving as a model for other fragmentological reconstructions. Westwell discusses the processes of reconstruction and categorisation of liturgical fragments, focusing on methodologies applied to establish the provenance of fragments and foregrounding their material state and subsequent re-use. Focusing on the structure and making of the codex, Yavuz considers manuscript fragments utilized as part of the medieval binding process.