Fragments Combined

A Comprehensive Dataset on Medieval Book Fragments in Stockholm and Helsinki

Abstract

This research note presents a new dataset on more than 29,000 manuscript fragments preserved in Stockholm and Helsinki. The dataset, created by the Books of the Medieval Parish Church project (2021–2025), hosted by the National Library of Finland, integrates these fragments into a single, coherent corpus. The dataset further contributes to the metadata on the fragments by adding new information especially on their early modern reuse—which is central to provenance analysis—and harmonizing metadata from institutional databases. For the first time, the entire corpus can now be considered systematically and analysed statistically. The dataset is published open access via Zenodo, with a full description of its structure and contents.