We aim to explore, classify, analyze and digitally display online as fully as possible the collection of notated manuscript fragments of medieval Hungary. The fragments \u2013 the surviving remnants of liturgical-musical codices with music notation from the 11th to 16th centuries \u2013 are an exceedingly important field of research in Hungarian music history, as they help to make unknown sources accessible again, and to make known but fragmentary sources more complete, standing at different stages of virtual and real reconstruction. The number of complete musical sources known today that were produced and\/or used in medieval Hungary is very small since the consequences of adverse historical processes have decimated the former book stock to a much greater extent than in other countries of Central Europe. It is unlikely that the number of complete music codices of Hungarian provenance in Hungarian collections or preserved abroad, which currently number around 150, will increase significantly in the future. The more the quantity of codex fragments may increase, and thus the sources they represent (mother<\/i> codices<\/i>) may be brought back from oblivion, and partially restorable.<\/p>\n
Although the principles of fragmentological research established by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Mezey \u2013 that the fragment gives the researcher the knowledge of the complete source \u2013 still apply, in fortunate cases two, three, or more fragments make the sources of the past more tactile and more accessible.<\/p>\n
Our work involves the in situ<\/i> study and digitization of hundreds of medieval music codex fragments discovered in the book and archival collections in Hungary and beyond, their analytical mapping, systematization, and online publication on the Fragmenta Manuscriptorum Musicalium Hungariae Mediaevalis<\/i> website. On the side paths of the main research route, two additional databases were created to support fragment research: the Hungarian Neume Catalogue<\/i>, which presents the musical writing signs of medieval Hungarian notated sources, and the Melodiarium Hungariae Medii Aevi Digitale<\/i>, a melodic catalogue of Hungarian liturgical-musical sources, which organizes the chant material by genre in a synoptic way. The digital ecosystem created has become part of international plainchant databases. As a result of the multidisciplinary approach, we can not only partially reconstruct the medieval mother codices of the fragments, but with the philological analysis of the host books and possessor entries, we can also get to know the new unity of the fragment and its carrier, the modern itinerary of this unity and its cultural-historical background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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