In May 2022, the popular science television programme PENNA – the magazine of living humanities – of the Research Centre for the Humanities’ was launched on the Hungarian TV channel M5. We were delighted that our research team was able to be included in the second episode, on 5 June. Zsuzsa Czagány talked about the research of medieval codex fragments, digital fragmentology, and the opportunities and perspectives of the Lendület /Momentum project. The presentation, illustrated with numerous pictures and workshop shots, not only accompanied the spectacular reconstruction of giant decorative codices dismembered over time into small pieces, but also showed the joy of identifying the content of tiny parchment fragments, sometimes consisting of barely a line of text and music, and building larger units of mother codices around them.
Watch the presentation of the “Momentum” Digital Music Fragmentology Research Group in the magazine ‘Penna’ magazine in the video below: