In this issue: 1. Virtual Exhibition / 2. Fragmentarium, remote teaching, and the Global Crisis The e-codices newsletter provides information about the latest updates, highlights, and activities of our project. We are delighted to count you among our readers!
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e-codices Newsletter

Issue no 44 - 21 April 2020

In this issue:

  1. Virtual Exhibition “Switzerland’s illuminated treasures – Sacred and profane manuscripts”
  2. Fragmentarium offers Remote Teaching

The e-codices newsletter provides information about the latest updates, highlights, and activities of our project. We are delighted to count you among our readers!

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1. Virtual Exhibition “Switzerland’s illuminated treasures – Sacred and profane manuscripts”

This spring, e-codices, in collaboration with the Abbey Library of St. Gallen and the Fondation Martin Bodmer (Cologny) organized simultaneous exhibitions in St. Gallen and Cologny entitled “Illuminated Manuscript Trove of Switzerland”. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the St. Gallen exhibition is temporarily closed to the public, and the Cologny exhibition has been postponed. While it cannot replace the physical exhibition, e-codices’ virtual exhibition remains open.

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2. Fragmentarium offers Remote Teaching

At a time crisis when manuscript research and teaching must be done remotely, we would like to offer our support. Fragmentarium’s mission has included education since the project began. University seminars in Manuscript Studies and Digital Humanities have successfully included modules featuring hands-on work with the Fragmentarium platform, and Fragmentarium has dedicated resources to support teaching. If you are interested in discussing how Fragmentarium might fit with your course, please contact us at fragmentarium@unifr.ch.

Contact the Fragmentarium team

«Fragmentarium is perfectly suited to online pedagogy. On the front end, Fragmentarium offers numerous ways of discovering and accessing fragments, by content, origin, and format, making it an incredibly flexible and useful resource for paleography, textual studies, and codicology. The reconstructions and collection-based case studies demonstrate how the IIIF-compliant data model facilitates research, cataloguing, and discoverability. I've been using Fragmentarium as a teaching resource for several years at the Simmons School of Library and Information Science in Boston, an institution that has no medieval material of its own. Using Fragmentarium, my students have catalogued fragments remotely and worked together to reconstruct dismembered manuscripts, learning about data modeling, IIIF, manuscript cataloguing, paleography, and codicology. Fragmentarium has transformed my classroom.»

—Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America

«The fact that Fragmentarium was created by manuscript specialists means that teaching with the platform allows for a focus on various aspects of book history depending upon the needs of the class: provenance, descriptive bibliography, paleographic analysis, philology and codicology, and more. The possibilities are very exciting!»

—Benjamin L. Albritton, Rare Books Curator, Stanford Libraries

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