Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments

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Danish National Archives
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Fragment Collection
Gisela Attinger
GuVarUr M?Gunnlaugsson
Helsinki Collection
Icelandic Manuscripts
Icelandic Scribes
Jan Brunius
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Latin Fragments
Liturgical Books
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Lund University Library
Medieval Norway
Medieval Parchment
Michael Gullick
Michael H. Gelting
National Archives
National Library
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Norwegian Accounts
Norwegian Collections
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Parchment Fragments
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Punctus Elevatus
Secondary Provenance
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Swedish National Archives
Swedish Realm
Uppsala University Library
Vernacular Manuscripts
Ville Walta

Product details

  • ISBN 9781472478580
  • Weight: 1680g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Jun 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity.

As the essays in this volume reveal, individual and groups of fragments can play a key role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition and production of medieval books, and in helping to distinguish locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative approach to the source material, the volume goes beyond a strictly medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment. In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the history of the medieval book.

Åslaug Ommundsen is a researcher and project leader at the University of Bergen. Tuomas Heikkilä is the director of the Finnish Institute in Rome. He holds docentships at the Universities of Helsinki (general and church history) and Turku (Finnish history).