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A 13th-century notated breviary of Esztergom (Strigonium, Ostrogon) has recently been discovered in the Metropolitan Library of the Archbishopric of Zagreb. The codex was found in 258 fragments which had been glued to the covers of 129 books printed between the 15th and 17th centuries. The fragmented manuscript is the missing second volume (i.e. sanctorale) of the Breviarium notatum Strgioniense (BNS), now kept in the Strahov Library of the Premonstratensians in Prague (Strahovská knihovna under the shelf mark DE I 7. The paper reports the details of the reconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]