Single leaf from a 12th-century lectionary : in Latin

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Title:
Single leaf from a 12th-century lectionary : in Latin
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Ege, Otto F.
Date:
[ca. 1100–1125]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Lectionaries
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy
Extent:
1 leaf : parchment ; 335 x 240 (237 x 135) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q43r
Terms of Use:
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No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Italy
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Ms. Leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy in the early twelfth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: The entire manuscript was formerly owned by collector, bookdealer and self-proclaimed book-breaker Otto Ege, who broke it into individual leaves for resale. Numerous leaves of this manuscript survive in Ege portfolios in collections throughout North America (see http://ege.denison.edu/manuscripts_locations_list.php for an up-to-date listing of portfolio locations). Single leaves, not part of portfolios, can be found in the following collections: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Wilson Library MS 253); Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (unnumbered box of fragments); Colorado College (Donald Jackson Coll. MS 1); Oberlin College (Special Collection MSS B7 and B7a); Rhode Island School of Design (MS 43.434); and the University of Minnesota (Andersen Library MS 51). In all, 38 leaves are accounted for.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Given to the Boston Public Library by Otto Ege in 1941.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 211
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Romanesque bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 22 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
Decoration: 6-line puzzle initial on verso in red and blue, 4-line epigraphic capital on recto.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Barbara A. Shailor, "Otto Ege: His Manuscript Fragment Collection and the Opportunities Presented by Electronic Technology," The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries 60 (2003), p. 1-22; Egge, Otto. "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolio. Egge, Otto. "I am a Biblioclast" (Avocations 1.6 (March 1938), 516-20), on p. 516.
Identifier:
06_01_016208-06_01_016209
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 108
MS 1536 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999085425310