IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 147: Falling Apart and Coming Together: Fragments in Codicology and Book History

Monday 3 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Stanford Libraries / Text Technologies
Organiser:	Agnieszka Backman, Institutionen för nordiska språk, Uppsala Universitet
Moderator/Chair:	Mark Saltveit, Palindromist Magazine, Middlebury, Vermont
Paper 147-a	Structure, Style, and Substance in the Beauvais Missal (Language: English) Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America, Massachusetts Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 147-b	The Multi- and Interdisciplinary Relevance of Fragment Studies: Two Cases from a State Archive in Italy (Language: English) Alessandra Molinari, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Studi Umanistici e Internazionali (DISCUI), Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 147-c	Hiding Fragmentation: Selling Medieval Persian Manuscripts to Foreigners (Language: English) Dagmar Anne Riedel, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Index terms: Bibliography, Language and Literature - Other, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 147-d	The Digital Reframing of a Study Collection: A Case Study of Stanford Libraries, M0299 (Language: English) Agnieszka Backman, Institutionen för nordiska språk, Uppsala Universitet Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	Manuscripts are nodes in complex networks of materiality, literacy, use, and meaning. Their fragmentation is the unavoidable consequence of the wear and tear to which readers subject books, or in other cases, of being purposefully broken up. Fragments are often reused: they are sold as historical artefacts to collectors, or recycled to make new manuscript books. The panel's origin is a forthcoming special issue about fragment studies in Digital Philology (2023, Albritton, Fafinski, Mihan, and Treharne). Our papers explore fragments as an interdisciplinary research challenge and the role of digital tools for fragment philology, as well as the Indian recycling of fragments for the export of Persian manuscript books to Britain around 1800 and the trade with western medieval fragments in 20th-century America.