Stockholm-Helsinki-Frs-Combined-BOMPAC

1 Readme: Stockholm-Helsinki-Frs-Combined-BOMPAC dataset This dataset was produced as part of the ERC-funded project BOMPAC (Books of the Medieval Parish Church, Grant number 948497), 2021–2025. Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17511106 Creators: Seppo Eskola (data curator) Holger Kaasik (data modeller, MPO data) Jaakko Tahkokallio (PI, supervision of data creation, data editing) Contributors: Maria von Hertzen (data collection, data editing) Susanna Rämö (data collection, data editing) Daniela Fougstedt (data collection) Robert Stjernberg (data collection) General information: The Books of the Medieval Parish Church (BOMPAC) project (2021–2025), hosted by the National Library of Finland, systematically produced and edited metadata on most medieval parchment fragments reused by the Swedish tax administration as soft covers for account booklets between c. 1540 and 1630. For the most part, these fragments are listed in either the Medeltida pergamentomslag (MPO, National Archives of Sweden) or the Fragment membranea (FM, National Library of Finland) database. See https://sok.riksarkivet.se/mpo and https://fragmenta.kansalliskirjasto.fi/. The project’s data is published as several separate datasets. The present dataset uses the ‘RawMetadata-BOMPAC’ dataset as its source, combining information from its data files and listing all fragments identified by the project in a single spreadsheet. The source dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17701360. The present dataset is intended to function as a research tool for handling the full corpus of the Stockholm-Helsinki fragments. It consists of sixty-nine columns, two header rows, and 29,586 datarows. The main facets of the data are described below. For more detailed information on specific data, see the source dataset. It should be emphasised that this dataset was compiled specifically to support research within the BOMPAC project; it represents research data rather than library catalogue data. 2 The table includes the following metadata groups: - Index - Fragment identification - Codex identification - Genre and type - Dating - Origin - Language - Measurements - Notation - Reuse - Archival provenance - Original (parsed) MPO metadata - Row control The table lists the fragments in the following order: MPO fragments: rows 3–22,911; FM fragments: 22,912–28,344; other manuscript fragments: 28,345–28,357; and early print fragments identified by the project: 28,358–29,586. These are also named ranges in the spreadsheet. The groups are described in the following: Index - Table index Fragment identification - Fields identifying the fragment and providing general metadata on it. Each fragment is identified in column ‘Fr_number’ by a fragment number. Fragments listed in MPO have previously been given a number in a sequence starting from one (fragments catalogued in the MPO project) or 20,000 (CCM project). The BOMPAC project has provided similar numbers for all other identified fragments as well. Fragments in FM are listed starting from 40,001; printed fragments from 50,001; other fragments in Finland from 60,001; and any other fragments from 61,001. The numbers provide clear unique identifiers for each fragment. In the dataset, each row represents a fragment, and institutional shelfmarks are provided in column ‘Fr_reference’. Codex identification - Each fragment has been assigned to a BOMPAC-unit—a reconstruction of a once intact manuscript—in the form of BOMPAC-1, BOMPAC-2, etc. Alongside these units are given three commonly used codex signa: CCM (by the CCM project); Codex (by the MPO project); and FM shelfmarks. These signa often overlap and do not always refer to all fragments currently thought to originate from the same codex. To facilitate their use, these shelfmarks are also attributed, in separate columns with the suffix ‘BOMPAC’, to all fragments in a BOMPAC-unit these shelfmarks share fragments with. A note on data harmonisation: Some of the metadata columns on dating, origin, and genre/type have been harmonised, so that each fragment in the same BOMPAC-unit has the same value, even if all fragments in the unit do not have the same metadata. Regarding datings, these conflicts have been resolved in favour of, first, the narrowest time frame and, second, the earliest value. The columns that 3 have been harmonised have the word “BOMPAC” in the headers. The non-harmonised data is also available; for instance, non-harmonised data for datings is given numerically in columns ‘dating_start’ and ‘dating_end’, while harmonised data is found in column ‘dating_BOMPAC’. BOMPAC-units with conflicting dating metadata are marked in the Dating_BOMPAC_conflict column. Data concerning manuscript genre and type have been harmonised only partly, as it is often useful to have conflicting values visible (e.g., ‘missal’ and ‘calendar’ do not constitute a real conflict). Here the BOMPAC signifier is not used in the columns as the harmonisation is only partial. Genre and type - Genre/type of the manuscript’s content, with different categorisations, as well as work/author fields. Dating - Metadata on the dating of the fragment. Origin - Metadata on the origin of the fragment. Language - The language used in the fragment. Not available for MPO fragments. Measurements - Data on the size of the written area as well as the number of rows and columns. Notation - Metadata on notation (type, number of lines). Reuse - Metadata on the early modern reuse of the fragment. The numbers in the ‘bailiwick’ column refer to bailiwicks using the numbering system introduced in the classical work by J. A. Almquist Den civila lokalförvaltningen i Sverige 1523–1630: med särskild hänsyn till den kamerala indelningen, I–IV, (Stockholm 1917–1923). This work can be found online at BOMPAC's Doria site: https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2022033026181. The second column provides secondary or possible alternative numbers if necessary. Archival provenance - Archival provenance of both accounts and fragments when available. Original (parsed) MPO metadata - Parsed institutional MPO data from the ‘Raw-Metadata-BOMPAC’ dataset Row control - The ‘Row control’ columns enable the exclusion of superfluous datarows which are nonetheless included for clarity. These include, e.g., double or triple entries of a single fragment. 4 List of datasets published by the BOMPAC project The BOMPAC project has produced several datasets on the Swedish-Finnish medieval fragment collections and related sources. The fragments are, for the most part, included in one of two databases: i) Medeltida pergamentomslag (MPO; https://sok.riksarkivet.se/mpo) of the Swedish National Archives and ii) Fragmenta membranea (FM; https://fragmenta.kansalliskirjasto.fi) of the Finnish National Library. The published datasets are listed below. Published datasets as of 11/2025 Self-contained datasets: 2025: 1. Early-print-fragments-BOMPAC https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17037953 2. Stockholm-Helsinki-Frs-Combined-BOMPAC https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17511106 3. Raw-Metadata-BOMPAC https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17701360 Datasets related to published articles: 2025 1. The-Reuse-of-Fragments-in-the-Duchy-of-Johan https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17511273 2024: 1. Lots-of-fragments-from-Sweden_Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13881853 2. How-many-fragments: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13879587