Fragmenta Manuscripta Collection.

Title

Date

c. 700-1699.

Extent

4 boxes (217 leaves) : parchment, illustrations (some color) ; 39 x 28 x 8 cm.

Description

Fragmenta Manuscripta is a collection of over 200 manuscript leaves and fragments dating from the eighth to the seventeenth century. Originally gathered by seventeenth century book collector John Bagford, the collection offers scholars examples of book hands, decorations, and texts.

Has Format

MU Digital Library: Fragmenta Manuscripta collection.

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Digital Scriptorium: University of Missouri, Fragmenta Manuscripta.

Relation

MU Digital Exhibit: Fragmenta Manuscripta (Guide).

Related collection: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.

Is Referenced By

Identifier

MU Catalog: Fragmenta manuscripta, 8th-17th cent.

OCLC/WorldCat Number: 466749544

Call numbers:
VAULT OVR Z109 .F73 (box 1 #1-49)
VAULT OVR Z109 .F73 (box 2 #50-99)
VAULT OVR Z109 .F73 (box 3 #100-149)
VAULT OVR Z109 .F73 (box 4 #150-212)
VAULT OVR Z109 .F73 (ALBUM)

Subject

Manuscripts, Latin -- Specimens
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Specimens
Manuscripts, Renaissance -- Specimens

Provenance

In 1968, the Library of the University of Missouri-Columbia purchased this collection from the bookseller William Salloch. Mr. Salloch stated that the collection was not only the Fragmenta Manuscripta, but also a companion volume of Fragmenta Varia, now in the University Library, Cambridge. The collection was begun by Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1695 to his death in 1715. The Reverend Philip Hale was the keeper of the volume in Archbishop Tenison’s library in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the 1850’s and who was responsible for the rearrangement and rebinding of the fragments in the album in which they came to Missouri.

Contributor

Bagford, John, 1650-1716, bookseller
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, collector
Salloch, William, bookseller
Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715, collector

Rights

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