🏆 Els De Paermentier, Lisa Demets, Stefan Meysman winnen de jaarprijs #wetenschapscommunicatie voor hun podcastreeks ‘De vorstinnen van Vlaanderen – Leading lady’s in de middeleeuwen’! Stem op je favoriet bit.ly/4eQSemq Prijsuitreiking bit.ly/485RBTv UGent LW

This cannot be reiterated enough! Digitization is NOT preservation.

A milestone for MMFC: 1600 fragments from Flemish collections published on Fragmentarium and available to scholars worldwide. #fragmentology fragmentarium.ms/search?sQueryS…

Fancy some 14th-century vernacular songs in Middle Dutch with musical notation? Here's just the thing for you. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-ry6v #fragmentology

Interesting palaeographical transitions in this 15th-c. manuscript of the Grandes Chroniques de France: it starts in textualis, then goes to a smaller modulus of textualis, and then in the middle of the page to cursive (BnF, fr. 10136)

Interesting book commissioned by Lowys Porquin, a merchant from Antwerp. It was published in Antwerp in 1563 and includes a bio of his family and advice for his 11 children. Royal Library Brussels. Photos shared by Jan Pauwels

Voor haar 40ste verjaardag ging het Belgisch-Nederlands Boekbandengenootschap op zoek naar de oudste boekband uit onze regio. De winnaar? Deze unieke 10de-eeuwse boekband (Ms. 8380-9012) van eikenhouten platten die wordt gekoesterd in de collectie van KBR.

A capital P it is! Ms. 21852 KBR, fifth part of the 'Moralia in Job' by Saint Gregory the Great, 13th century, from Park Abbey in Louvain, with the coat of arms scraped away on the binding and on f. 132 a curse for potential thieves uurl.kbr.be/1608198

The pleasures of man: eating, drinking and playing games (baseball ?) Ms. 9543 KBR, ‘Li ars d'amour, de vertu et de boneurté’, Flanders, late 13th century, 67 miniatures, presence in the Royal Library attested since 1597 Now digitised: uurl.kbr.be/2216344

An autograph of Jean Lebèque which seems to have escaped scholars of the early French humanists, fragmentarium.ms/searchresult/o… #fragmentology

Me neither, little monkey. Me neither. But we have to.

Good day. A new collection just published on Fragmentarium: Municipal Archives Turnhout. The harvest includes an unknown fragment of the so-called Middle Dutch Bible translation of 1360. fragmentarium.ms/searchresult/o… #fragmentology

Keyhole surgery on old books leads to discovery of medieval fragments universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/0…

This is how you perfect your 16th-c. calligraphic cursive: kep writing the same line. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-2lt3 #fragmentarium #palaeography

Signing off now. We published 2,100 fragments on Fragmentarium over the last few years, which was good going. And recently we pushed Fragmentarium over the 7,000 fragments.