Medieval book fragments in sweden

The list below is intended to offer quick access to various digitization projects on the web. Art, culture, and exchange across medieval saharan. Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author. Dr erik kwakkel, a medieval book historian at leiden university, told the observer. In the sixteenth and seventeenth century thousands of norways medieval manuscripts disappeared or were reduced to fragments. Show all sights tagged in category medieval churches in sweden page 18.

Deleen, carl, swedish and english pocket dictionarey, n. Medieval ironwork in sweden by lennart karlsson, 1988, kungl. See the most interesting sites remaining us of the middle ages, when sweden was formed from the viking settlements to small kingdoms and finally a consolidated country. Medieval ironwork in sweden 1988 edition open library. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. This situation radically changed with the recent cataloguing of numerous parchment leaves cut from medieval books and used in the binding of 16th century accounts, during the reign of gustav vasa and his sons. This is in part, of course, because such books were made of paper, a much more fragile material than the parchment sheets from medieval books, and therefore less suitable for holding together a bookbinding. Women key figures in medieval sweden sofie vanherpen. An international seminar in stockholm november 2003. Beinecke library acquires treasure trove of medieval.

Queen margrethe i, 531412, and the founding of the nordic union by vivian etting. While both then and now the objects are commonly shelved after use, medieval readers had additional storing options. Medieval danish, norwegian, icelandic and anglosaxon sources tell of migration age swedish kings belonging to the scylfing dynasty, also known as ynglings. However, medieval and modern reading culture take different paths when it comes to books that are not in use. Interpreting and collecting fragments of medieval books. This situation radically changed with the recent cataloguing of numerous parchment leaves cut from medieval books and used in the binding of 16th century accounts, during. These were originally painted, and fragments of co. Check out this youtube movie for a public lecture i did on commercial book production in medieval times.

Making books for profit in medieval times medievalfragments. The veneration of a royal saint from the 12th century to the 16th century. It illustrates the ways in which the fragments have been utilized as. Helpdesk support back in the day of the middle age with english subtitles. An interdisciplinary approach to the late medieval crisis in sweden. Hebrew manuscripts are important and often unique witnesses of jewish presence and intellectual activities in. The swedish king, in fact, had little power except in time of war, and sometimes the goths preferred to have their own king. Read a great lecture by malcolm parkes about commerciallymade books at universities here. Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. The cult of st erik in medieval sweden by christian oertel. His responsibilities include the projects administration and website as well as the arrangement of conferences and other events. There are also other locations in sweden where precious treasures have been found, revealing a widespread trade between sweden and countries as far east as asia.

Books about the vikings icelandic sagas of scandinavian history. Ege, an ohiobased scholar and book dealer, made a controversial practice of dismantling medieval and renaissance manuscripts and selling the individual leaves for profit during the first half of the last century. Environment, society and the black death in sweden. The collection is extremely important for the study of the oldest book culture in finland. This collection contains 275 medieval manuscript books and c. Fragments of medieval manuscripts in printed books. Liturgical fragments with musical notation assisted ritual actors in the memorization of stylized speech. Miniature prayer books and books of hours demonstrate a late medieval trend toward privatized and personalized lay devotion.

This is the bible of commercial book production in paris. Extract from concert with trio mediaeval ensemble in s. Those fragments may be the unique remains of certain works. There are in total 165 medieval stained glass panes with figurative depictions surviving in 37 churches, constituting a total area of circa 60 square metres 650 sq ft, a fragment of the original amount but still the largest amount found in any of the nordic countries. The viking age was a period of 400 years, 700 1100 ad, i. Thus, the medieval books partially survived in the form of fragments. Hebrew fragments in european libraries is a european network of scholars working on fragments of medieval hebrew books and documents recovered from book bindings and notarial files in various libraries and archives in europe, israel and usa. The fragments form a giant book puzzle containing ca 6500 single pieces. The swedes chose the king, and the other tribes then decided whether to accept or reject the swedish choice. The font is the main item of inventory retained from medieval times.

Fragmentarium digital reserach laboratory for medieval manuscript fragments. The scarcity of preserved manuscripts has long impeded an assessment of the diffusion of the genre in sweden. Caravans of gold, fragments in time princeton university. The present post is also a new beginning in that it is the gateway, as it were, to my new blog, medieval books. Today, the national archives and other collections hold fragments from about a thousand recycled manuscripts. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book.

The surviving amount of medieval stained glass in sweden is relatively small, compared to some other european countries. Liturgical sequences in medieval manuscript fragments in. The fragmenta membranea collection at the national library of finland contains the vast majority of the remains of books written and used in the eastern parts of medieval sweden, the diocese of turku. Nordic latin manuscript fragments 2017 research group. This catalog describes 144 medieval manuscript fragments used as binding material in the printed book collection of the harry ransom center at the university of texas, austin. It is the result of the medieval fragments project, a crowdsourcing effort using flickr to identify medieval manuscripts used as binding waste. Both components show how customized manuscripts promoted reading aloud. Like the human body casts of pompeii, the black death is perceptible by the void it left behind a void. Widegren, gustaf, svenskt och engelskt lexicon, johan a. Note that the first entry of my new blog features a companion post on the first page of the medieval book. Interpreting and collecting fragments of medieval books brownrigg, linda l.

Spam or selfpromotional the list is spam or selfpromotional. Women key figures in medieval sweden october 28, 2016 october 28, 2016 vanherpens in one section of the swedish history museum in stockholm representing the viking period, swedish women are represented in one individual display case by a great number of keys found in various archaeological digs. At the beginning of this period it is not relevant to talk about sweden, norway and denmark as countries or kingdoms, because they were like most european countries not yet created. There are also the remains of medieval frescoes made in 1465. Cutting up printed books was a far more infrequent practice, it seems. The swedish national archives houses a collection of many thousand medieval book fragments which come from medieval churches and monasteries and were used as covers for tax accounts in the sixteenth century. These are all books and fragments written by hand, from the early 11th to the 16th centuries. The destruction and reconstruction of medieval books hardcover at. Medieval book opens six ways, revealing six different. Contributors from diverse disciplines present case studies that form a rich portrayal of a distant time. From earliest medieval times, the swedish people were linked by water. In this book a large number of extant latin manuscripts and manuscript fragments of norwegian origin or provenance are presented for the first time in print, to demonstrate the range and the extent of the material. Nordic latin manuscript fragments the destruction and.

Fragments from french manuscripts in medieval norway william biel, university of connecticut. Medieval manuscripts on the web digitized manuscripts. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. A xvith century book held in the national library of sweden s collection features a sixfold dosados binding, meaning that the book could be opened in six different ways to reveal six different. Vikings in the late medieval low countries ryder patzuk. Caravans of gold, fragments in time draws on the latest archaeological discoveries and art historical research to construct a compelling look at medieval transsaharan exchange and its legacy.