DACT Fragments

DACT Fragments is an ongoing research project aiming to unify lost chant manuscripts from around the world. Join us on our journey to revisit and make sense of the musical past! Do you know of a chant fragment? Contact us to become part of the mission.

charter written in Iceland, St Swithun's Day, 1311; chant for Advent Sunday on the back (/front?) #fragmentfriday #page/1v/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">handrit.is/manuscript/vie…

what is a nice Aquitanian-looking fragment doing in Mechelen? why are there such English-looking b-flat clefs in Antwerp? #chant mysteries this #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-bv3t fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-1a…

Fragment of the Office of St Martin in a complete folio used as wrapping for a set of orders taken at Kilkenny by the Lord Deputy and Council in 1548/49. Bellingham Estate, now in Chatsworth House. Pic Brian Donovan, @BrianEneclann @DactF

#chant adjacent fragments this #fragmentfriday: on the last day of January, how many fragments should you sing at the Clares convent in Bruges? fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-yz…

colours are faded but still barely visible. must have been very fun to sing from this #chant book when it was new. #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-hk…

Christmas chants used as flyleaf in a Belgian archive--and the pages got re-used for other musical scribbles! #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-c8…

very cool!

related chant for related book covers in Belgium #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-7m…

this #fragmentfriday falls in the O antiphons! hard to pick a favourite...

Happy St Lucy Day! some suitable #chant this #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-hz… fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-7z…

two recordings. youtube.com/watch?v=getOPP… and youtube.com/watch?v=0yZj7S…. one is a Norwegian version, one is Hungarian; not quite the same as this Belgian manuscript but goes to show everybody loves st.nick

happy #StNicholasDay this #fragmentfriday! celebrate with spice cookies, chocolate, and CHANT! fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-mx…

#fragmentfriday pictures won't load today! ah well, there's a whole #StCecilia day thread I made elsewhere...

#fragmentfriday working on a presentation about this lil guy fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-87…

what is the oldest #chant fragment on @FragmentariumMS ? this page was probably written in 8th c. Ireland, but has 11th c. German-style neumes. to top off its multinational story, it has been in France since at least the 19th c. #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-km…

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

and then there's this Fancy French breviary, with just a bit of chant before the opening reading of Matins (late 13th c., Troyes? now in Ottawa). it has a little FACE archie.library.carleton.ca/index.php/manu…

this English chant manuscript may not look fancy, but any time you're instructing five children to go chanting with candles in the middle of the night it seems pretty ott (15th c Sarum manuscript, now in Montreal: archive.org/details/McGill…)

its #allsaints this #fragmentfriday! some different chants in celebration: this German number (for vespers; ca 1400; now in Stuttgart fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-yp…)

this chant page @HoughtonLib is not for #StLuke but it has an ox who seems quite nonplussed by squiggly neumes #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-hd68