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In more recent times, in the 1950s and 1960s medieval manuscripts were frequently deliberately divided in order to attract a higher return on resale values and have subsequently become lost to researchers: Fragmentarium hopes to reunite them. Flüeler has estimated that around 90% of extant fragments are currently "lost" in archives. [8]
Manuscript preservation may also take the form of digital archiving, which is particularly useful for vulnerable manuscripts and fragments susceptible to deterioration such as the burnt fragments extant from the Cotton library fire which have now been recorded using multispectral imaging by the British Library. [19]
It is founded on a digital archive of images of European medieval and early to high-Renaissance polyphonic music ranging from complete manuscripts to fragments. [4] The collection, created by the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway University of London , [ 5 ] includes metadata for all manuscripts from 800 to 1550 A.D., and most of those ...
Leaf from a Gradual, c, 1450–1475, Italy; New York, Columbia University, Plimpton MS 040A. Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of American libraries with collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts, that is, handwritten books made in the traditions of the world's scribal cultures.
Each manuscript or fragment is listed as an individual data record. A description includes the basic information. Apart from the centralized registering of the textual contents, the basic codicological data, such as the number and size of the leaves, type of material and rough date of origin of the manuscript is specified, as well as linguistic information as to the language and regional dialect.
As a part of Anglo-Saxon art the manuscript reveals a love of riddles and surprise, shown through the pattern and interlace in the meticulously designed pages. Many of the patterns used for the Lindisfarne Gospels date back before the Christian period. [32] There is a strong presence of Celtic, Germanic, and Irish art styles.
The Morgan Bible is part of Morgan Library & Museum in New York (Ms M. 638). It is a medieval picture Bible.The Morgan Bible originally contained 48 folios; of these, 43 still reside in the Morgan Museum, two are in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, one is in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and two have been lost. [3]
An example of a late medieval roll of arms. College of Arms, London. Roll of arms of the knights of the Golden Fleece. Made in the first half of the 16th century. [1] A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing ...