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Fragmentology is the study of surviving fragments of manuscripts (mainly manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the case of European manuscript cultures). A manuscript fragment may consist of whole or partial leaves, typically made of parchment , conjugate pairs or sometimes gatherings of a parchment book or codex , or parts of ...
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[3] John Schwartz, in The New York Times, called Schlitz a "talented storyteller" and praised the book for its frank depiction of the Middle Ages. [4] Nina Lindsay, chair of the Newbery Medal committee, called the monologues "superb" and stated that as a whole, they "create a pageant that transports readers to a different time and place." [5]
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.
The Painted Page : Italian Renaissance Book Illumination, 1450-1550, New York: Prestel, 1994, ISBN 3791313851 (ed. with James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler) The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, New York: New York Public Library, 2005, ISBN 190537500X
There were also women who worked as professional, secular scribes, including Clara Hätzlerin in 15th century Augsburg, who has at least nine surviving manuscripts signed by or attributed to her. [13] Saint Matthew in a mediæval scriptorium (Book of Prayers, 15th century (British Library, Sloane MS 2468) [14]
Scivias survives in ten medieval manuscripts, two of them lost in modern times. [4] The most esteemed of these was the well-preserved Rupertsberg manuscript, prepared under her immediate supervision or that of her immediate tradition, being made around the time of her death.
Six of the seven manuscripts, had been archived for centuries in the library at the Cathedral of Trent, and were not discovered until the middle of the 19th century. Their first discussion in the musicological literature was in 1885, by F. X. Haberl, in his huge monograph on Guillaume Dufay , Bausteine zur Musikgeschichte .