“Scraps of the Sacred” Colloquium on Liturgical Manuscript Fragments, University of Fribourg
July 1-3, 2026
Wednesday, July 1:
14:00: Welcome (Jennifer Bain, William Duba), and registration
14:30–15:30: Spotlight Papers:
• Michael Braunger, “From Fragment to Codex—or: How a Manuscript is Digitally Revived”
• Hanna Zühlke, “Notating Chant in Monasteries of the Hirsau Reform: New Insights from Fragments”
16:00–18:00: Consultation of Liturgical Fragments, Bibliothèque des Cordeliers, Fribourg
19:00: Reception
Thursday, July 2:
9:00–10:30: Lightning papers I, chair: Debra Lacoste, Dalhousie University/DACT
Zsuzsa Czagány, “Sister Fragments, Mother Codices: Research of Medieval Chant Fragments in Hungary”
Katherine Chandler, “Carthusian Liturgy and Change: Sister Manuscripts from the Chartreuse de Champmol”
Devon Sherwood, “Music Without Music? Liturgical Elements in Books of Hours: Fragmentary Examples from Various Toronto Collections”
Henry T. Drummond, “Fragments from the Archive of Sint-Catharinadal”
Rens Tienstra, “Chant Notation Styles in the Netherlands: An Overview”
Rhianydd Hallas, “Thirteenth-Century Notated Czech Fragments”
Ann-Kathrin Deininger, “The Solothurn Fragments. A Project to Identify and Catalogue Binding Waste”
Andris Amolins, “A Fragment of Notated Missal from Latvian State Historical Archive”
Ilias Chrysostomides, “Latin Liturgical Fragments in Greece”
10:30–11:00: Coffee break
11:00–12:30: Lightning papers II, chair: Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie University
Lisa Fagin Davis, “Resequencing the Beauvais Missal”
Olivia Jin, “Shredded, Covered, and Repurposed: Issues Encountered while Cataloguing Fragments with an Altered Material Form”
Artur Dobija, “Challenges of Falsobordone Repository Design: Aligning Needs of Data Scientists, Church Cantors and Musicologists”
Kyrie Bouressa, “Questions on Human and Machine Seeing in Profiling Medieval Scribes”
Giovanni Cunego, “A Dismembered Palimpsest Gradual in Bressanone: Liturgical Fragments and Reconstructive Methods”
Fanni Hende, “A Readapted Breviary”
Antje Hoffmann, “St Kunibert of Cologne—the Holy Regent. Studies on his Liturgical Veneration”
Waltraud Götz, “To Be or Not To Be Lucky—Reconstruction of Leaves from a Franciscan Gradual and a Franciscan Antiphonary”
12:30–14:00: Lunch (Mensa Miséricorde)
14:00–15:30: Invited presentations:
• Christine Jakobi-Mirwald and Marina Bernasconi-Reusser, Book Decoration
• Eva Veselovská, Musical notation
15:30–16:00: Coffee break
16:00–17:30: 2 simultaneous workshops/working groups (1.5 hour each) on:
• Book Decoration (led by Christine Jakobi-Mirwald and Marina Bernasconi-Reusser)
• Musical notation (led by Eva Veselovská)
19:30: Dinner
Friday July 3:
9:00–10:30: Invited presentations:
• Erik Kwakkel, Paleography
• Laura Albiero, Liturgy
10:30–11:00: Coffee break
11:00–12:30: 2 simultaneous workshops/working groups:
• Paleography (led by Erik Kwakkel)
• Liturgy (led by Laura Albiero)
12:30–14:00: Lunch (Mensa Miséricorde)
14:00–15:30: Joint Practicum on Fragment Identification (part 1), chair : William Duba, University of Fribourg
15:30–16:00: Coffee break
16:00–17:30: Joint Practicum on Fragment Identification (part 2), chair: Anna de Bakker, Dalhousie/DACT
17:30–18:00: Conclusion