Reading Monastic History in Bookbinding Waste
Ivana Dobcheva
Shortly after its foundation in 748, the Benedictine monastery of Mondsee became an important centre for book production Upper Austria. The librarians renewed their holdings over several phases increased activity. In fifteenth century, old and outdated books fell into hands monastic binders, who cut up reused them as binding waste new manuscripts, incunabula or archival materials. These fragments often offer only clues we have existence specific texts library should be regarded sources study liturgical, scholarly everyday life Mondsee. This paper summarises challenges to gathering, identifying, describing, digitizing material, approach taken achieve these ends, initial evaluation used waste.
Fragmentology