A very happy #FragmentFriday from me and this adorable little early modern book robed in a medieval bifolium parchment cover. π
MU Special Collections & Archives RB TH 5 1628, Cologne
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this #chant is #shiny ! & probably also really annoying to sing from if you are trying to actually do vespers for corpus christi. but, GOLD!
(facing page must also have been pretty extra but it isn't at Houghton Library...)
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'Let me invite you to dine with us at my daughter's birthday party'
This is what remains of an invite to a birthday party from about 1800 years ago. Medieval Manuscripts Papyrus 3078.
#FridayFeeling #birthdaygirl #birthdayparty #fragmentfriday
Final day of #LeedsDigitalExplorations on Digital Exhibit workshop led by the amazing Katarzyna Anna Kapitan. Thank you (and everyone involved in all the workshops) for your wonderful knowledge and teaching! #fragmentfriday
From the 1920s revival of reused manuscript bindings, a little essay about Montaigne, Chicago Pembroke 'Pemproke' Press 1925, but printed (and apparently bound) in Florence. Note the 'bird track' title border typical of Florentine woodcuts c. 1500. #Fragmentology #FragmentFriday
Despite working with old materials, I always spot something new every day - like this lovely print woodcut initial βTβ recycled and pasted onto the spine of another book!
Woodcut initials were highly collectible in the 18th/19thc. π
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Can anyone help ID this MS pastedown? βest q[uod] theseus is tantalising, but Iβm not getting very far. The binding feels continental to me, but could this MS be English? #fragmentfriday Ransom Center, BS 1465 M45 1548
![Can anyone help ID this MS pastedown? βest q[uod] theseus is tantalising, but Iβm not getting very far. The binding feels continental to me, but could this MS be English? #fragmentfriday Ransom Center, BS 1465 M45 1548](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqU8XCUXoAcIW9l.jpg "Tamara Atkin (@Tamarajatkin) on Twitter photo 2023-03-03 22:01:23 Can anyone help ID this MS pastedown? βest q[uod] theseus is tantalising, but Iβm not getting very far. The binding feels continental to me, but could this MS be English? #fragmentfriday Ransom Center, BS 1465 M45 1548")
A whole lotta book history here in this stunning beauty of an #incunable in near perfect condition with intact clasps on tooled pigskin, manuscript fragments and extended initials.
Can you spot the visible watermark? #fragmentfriday #watermark #incunabula
It's #FragmentFriday ! Remember that 1640 Jonson 1640? (link below) In addition to everything else, it has this lovely #bindingwaste , barely visible! Even more to come on this folio in the future, as I've had a chance to reexamine it...
Today's #FragmentFriday is Ms. Codex 1162, a single sheet of parchment from an undated medieval liturgical text used to cover late 16th century lecture notes on Aristotle's Parva naturalia.
Online: bit.ly/3XcgupL
Post-incunabula with manuscript pastdowns. Opus Super Sentencias by Nicolas Denis (8vo Rouen Martin Morin - 1506). #fragmentology #fragmentfriday #bookhistory
Unusual binders waste! Two pages of a vellum Parisian Book of Hours (~1525 Hardouyn(?)) were used for this French booklet (1618) about inheritance law.
Look at the handpainted initials! π
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Politicorum Sive Civilis Doctrinae Libri Sex by Justus Lipsius (Lich (Germany) Conrad Neben - 1604) with a great glossed manuscript vellum binding! (unknown text, 15th C?) #fragmentFriday #bookhistory
This #FragmentFriday , a couple of privately-held Book of Hours leaves that I came across in the house my parents are buying in Virginia...they feature portions of Psalms 37 and 101, respectively (two of the 'Penitential Psalms').
