From 1994 on, a large number of fragmentary manuscripts of Buddhist texts, seventy-seven altogether, were discovered in eastern Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan.
Three fragmentary manuscripts covering more than seven chapters were discovered in 1st-century Han tombs at Wuwei in Gansu in 1959.
Only other four fragmentary Greek manuscripts are extant.
Of Flaccus's work only a few fragments remain, of Festus's epitome only one damaged, fragmentary manuscript.
The fragmentary manuscript ends at this point, the contents of the missing portion are unknown.
Weber died in 1920 leaving "disordered, fragmentary manuscripts without even the guidance of a plan or table of the proposed contents".
The most suitable comment surely comes from what appears to be the introduction of the fragmentary manuscript.
More than sixty medieval manuscripts, complete and fragmentary, preserve the versio vulgata of the text.
Bertouch is remembered today for his collection of twenty-four sonatas in each of the twenty-four keys, of which only eighteen survive in a fragmentary manuscript.
In the Jewish tradition, fragmentary manuscripts are often put into a genizah, or storage repository, rather than destroyed.