Fragmenta Membranea Project 2009 – 2012

Reports and Studies 1 / 2014

The National Library of Finland’s Fragmenta membranea project was launched in 2009 and concluded in March of 2012. Its objective was to describe, conserve, and digitise all medieval manuscript fragments in the Library’s collection and generate an information system facilitating the research and other utilisation of this material. As a result of the project, the entire collection can be accessed online free of charge at the address: http://fragmenta.kansalliskirjasto.fi. The online use of the manuscript fragments has facilitated the intensified use of the fragments as well as the protection of the original materials. Without digitisation, these ostensibly mutually contradictory objectives would have been impossible to achieve. The Helsingin Sanomat Foundation, the National Library of Finland, and the Ministry of Education and Culture funded the project.