The Fragmenta Manuscripta album, formerly known as Phillips Ms. 15788, went up for sale by William Salloch, an antiquarian based in Ossining, New York, in 1968 (Catalogue 258, Nov. 1968). Thanks to the fundraising efforts of the Friends of the Libraries and the recommendations of faculty from the Library Committee and the history, art history, English, Romance languages and classical languages, University of Missouri Libraries purchased the album. The Fragmenta Manuscripta has a long history, having been originally gathered by John Bagford in the seventeenth century, having been owned by Sir Thomas Phillips (1913), then acquired by Sir Sydney Cockerell, then director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge (1957), and sold after his death. A companion volume with leaves from printed books is currently held at Cambridge University Libraries as SSS.3.14.

Since its acquisition, scholars have published studies about the collection as a whole and on specific fragments, some which have received more scholarly attention than others. Cockerell conducted considerable research about the fragments, consulting with renowned experts in England to assist in his efforts. Included with the collection were correspondence with T.A.M. Bishop and A.T. Baker, and in addition, Cockerell consulted with palaeographers Neil Ker, E.A. Lowe, F. Wormald, among others. Research on the Fragmenta Manuscripta continued once it was acquired by Mizzou Libraries, with Professors Rev. Mitch McC. Gatch, Linda Voights, and Karen Gould being among the first U.S.-based scholars to study the fragments.

This bibliography, compiled in August 2026, represents the extent of the published research on the Fragmenta Manuscripta to date. The bibliography will continue to be expanded as new research is published.  Please contact SpecialCollections@missouri.edu to include any omitted or new publications not included in this bibliography.

Fragmenta Manuscripta collection

Connolly, Margaret. “The Album and the Scrapbook.” Florilegium 35 (April 2022): 31–51. https://doi.org/10.3138/flor-2022-0003.

Gatch, Milton McC. “Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge.”

Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9, no. 5 (1990): 434–75.

Gatch, Milton McC. “Humfrey Wanley’s Proposal to the Curators of the Bodleian Library on the Usefulness of Manuscript Fragments from Bindings.” The Bodleian Library Record 11, no. 2 (1983): 94–98. https://doi.org/10.3828/blr.1983.11.2.94.

Gatch, Milton McC. “John Bagford as a Collector and Disseminator of Manuscript Fragments.” The Library s6-VII, no. 2 (1985): 95–114. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s6-VII.2.95.

Gatch, Milton McC. “John Bagford, Bookseller and Antiquary.” The British Library Journal (London), no. 2 (Autumn 1986): 150–71.

Petrina, Alessandra. “Translating Machiavelli’s Prince in Early Modern England: New Manuscript Evidence.” Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 3, no. 2 (2018): 302–33. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/707780

Trettien, Whitney. “Creative Destruction and the Digital Humanities.” In The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature, edited by Jennifer Boyle and Helen Burgess. Routledge, 2018. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Routledge_Research_Companion_to_Digi/_DBEDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 1 (Lectionary for the Office, 950–1000 CE)

Dumville, David N. “On the Dating of Some Late Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Manuscripts.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 10, no. 1 (1991): 40–57.

Hornby, Emma. “Interactions between Brittany and Christ Church, Canterbury in the Tenth Century: The Linenthal Leaf.” In Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell: Sources, Style, Performance, Historiography, edited by David Maw and Emma Hornby. Boydell & Brewer, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846158018.004.

Hunt, R.W. “Manuscript evidence for knowledge of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus

in late Anglo-Saxon England.” Anglo-Saxon England 8 (December 1979): 279–295.

Marsden, Richard. The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Voigts, Linda Ehrsam. “A Fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Manuscript at the University of Missouri.” Anglo-Saxon England 17 (December 1988): 83–92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004038.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 2 (Bede, De orthographia, 801–900 CE)

Smith, Joshua Byron. “Bede’s Books Don’t Tell Lies: Named Sources, Unideal Readers, and

Bede’s Welsh Reception.” In Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature. Brepols Online, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SOEL-EB.5.132834.

Webb, Nicholas. “Early medieval Welsh book-production,” unpublished PhD thesis, King’s College London, 1988, 78–93.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 3 (Sacramentary, 925–975 CE)

Hartzell, K. D. “A Fragment of a Tenth-Century English Sacramentary.” Anglo-Saxon England 46 (2019): 259–70.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 4 (Excerpts from Prophetae minores, 950–1000 CE)

Alexander, Elizabeth A. “Visualising the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England: From the Seventh to the Mid-Eleventh Century.” PhD, University of York, 2017. https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/20483/.

Dyson, Gerald P. “Liturgy or Private Devotion? Reappraising Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa, I. 3311.” Anglo-Saxon England 45 (2017): 265–84.

Lendinara, Patrizia. “Instructional Manuscripts in England: The Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Codices and the Early Norman Ones,” in Form and Content of Instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the Light of Contemporary Manuscript Evidence. Eds. Patrizia Lendinara, Loredana Lazzari, Maria Amalia D’Aronco. Textes et études du moyen age 39. Brepols, 2007: 59–113.

Marsden, Richard. The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 5 (Ivo of Chartres, part of Sermo IV: De sacramentalis dedicationis, 1140–1160 CE) and 23 (Decretum Ivonis, 1150–1199 CE)

Somerville, Robert. “Ivo in America.” In Bishops, Texts and the Use of Canon Law Around 1100: Essays in Honour of Martin Brett, edited by Bruce Clark Brasington and Kathleen G. Cushing. Ashgate, 2008.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 8 (Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, 790–810 CE)

Bischoff, Bernhard, and Virginia Brown. “Addenda to Codices Latini Antiquiores.” Mediaeval Studies 47, no. 1 (1985): 317–66. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.ms.2.306329.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 14 (Cassiodorus, In psalterium expositio, 1125–1150 CE)

Bishop, T. A. M.  “Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts, Part II.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2.2 (1955):185–92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41154356 (Under “University Library Add. MS. 4406 (1)”)

Thomson, Rodney M., ed. “Index of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books.” In A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Boydell & Brewer, 2022. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/descriptive-catalogue-of-the-medieval-manuscripts-of-pembroke-college-cambridge/index-of-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books/6E24BF6BD4B83034D276AB441672C77E.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 46 (Psalter, glossed, 1050–1099 CE)

Bishop, T. A. M.  “Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts, Part II.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2.2 (1955):185–92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41154356 (Under “University Library Mm. 4. 25”)

Fragmenta Manuscripta 135 (Robert de Gretham, Miroiror evangiles des domnees, 1250–1299 CE)

Pattwell, Niamh. “An Unnoticed Fragment of the Anglo-Norman Miroir by Robert Gretham in Marsh’s Library, Dublin.” Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History (New York) 19 (2016): 217–26, 333.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 150 (Dialogue between Life and Fortune, 1400–1500 CE)

Cook, Megan L. “Joseph Holland and the Idea of the Chaucerian Book.” Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 1, no. 2 (2016): 165–88.

Machan, Tim William. “The ‘Consolation’ Tradition and the Text of Chaucer’s ‘Boece.’” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 91, no. 1 (1997): 31–50. https://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.91.1.24304468.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 157 (Chanson d'aventure Florence de Rome, 1290–1310 CE)

Hudson, Harriet. William Caxton’s “Paris and Vienne” and “Blanchardyn and Eglantine.” Medieval Institute Publications, 2023.

Stavsky, Jonathan. Le Bone Florence of Rome: A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer’s Man of Laws Tale. University of Wales Press, 2017.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 175 (Medical text, 1390–1410 CE)

Hindley, Katherine Storm. Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Voigts, Linda Ehrsam. “What’s the Word? Bilingualism in Late-Medieval England.” Speculum 71, no. 4 (1996): 813–26. https://doi.org/10.2307/2865721.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 177 (Peter Idley, Instructions to his son, 1490–1510 CE)

Giancarlo, Matthew. “Dressing up a ‘Galaunt’: Traditional Piety and Fashionable Politics in Peter Idley’s ‘Translacions’ of Mannyng and Lydgate.” In After Arundel. Brepols Online, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2023.

Jones, Harold G. “PETER IDLEY’S ‘INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS SON’: A New Fragment.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74, no. 4 (1973): 686–89.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 189 (John Cassian [?], Conferences, 1400–1499 CE) and 205 (Notes, 1600–1699 CE)

Henderson, Ingeborg. “Fragmenta Manuscripta 189 and 205: Unedited Manuscripts at the University of Missouri-Columbia.” Manuscripta 25, no. 1 (1981): 43–48. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.mss.3.992.