1st Edition

Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books

Edited By Åslaug Ommundsen, Tuomas Heikkilä Copyright 2017
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages 24 Color & 103 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 24 Color & 103 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Piecing Together the Past: The Accidental Manuscript Collections of the North



[Tuomas Heikkilä and Åslaug Ommundsen]





2. Reflections on Nordic Latin Fragment Studies Past and Present Together with Three Case Studies



[Michael Gullick]





3. The Recycling of Manuscripts in Sixteenth-Century Sweden



[Jan Brunius]





4. From Fragments Towards the Big Picture: Reconstructing Medieval Book Culture in Finland



[Tuomas Heikkilä]





5. The Problem of the Provenance of Medieval Manuscript Fragments in Danish Archives



[Michael H. Gelting]





6. A Norwegian – and European – Jigsaw Puzzle of Manuscript Fragments



[Åslaug Ommundsen]





7. Latin Fragments Related to Iceland



[Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson]





8. Danish Fragments in Norway and their Connections to Twelfth-Century Lund



[Åslaug Ommundsen]





9. Iceland and Norway: Separate Scribal Cultures versus Cultural Exchange



[Gisela Attinger]





10. Birgittine Books in the Nordic Fragment Collections



[Ville Walta]

Biography

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).