Manuscript Fragments from Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area

BORELLI MARCELA; BOHDZIEWICZ, SOLEDAD

Hamburg

Workshop; Lost and Found Manuscripts: Binding Waste and Interdisciplinary Methods of Research; 2022

The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) - Universität Marburg

Unlike the case of the holdings of ancient prints and manuscripts from many Europeanlibraries that would justify the creation of a research project on fragments on their own,Argentina´s library holdings are small and scattered in a vast territory. Hence, thecreation of a research project in fragmentology needs to take into consideration manylibraries, museums and archives from the most diverse origins. The purpose of this paperis to show the results of our ongoing research explaining the methodology used and thepreliminary conclusions we have arrived at.In this stage of our research, we will concentrate exclusively on the metropolitan area ofBuenos Aires, since this area has the highest number of ancient book and manuscriptrepositories. In the long term, however, we intend to include all the institutions in thecountry.We will also mention the difficulties that an enterprise of this sort signifies amidst theprecarity of national research projects. The scarcity of funding implies that the results ofour research will not be made visible through national online platforms but only throughresearch journals. Instead, we rely on international online laboratories, which gives usthe space to do so.