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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30530

Shelfmark:

ege-49

Title:

Ege leaf 49: Missal, Germany, 1500s

Missal

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1500s

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Vellum (parchment)

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 41 cm x 29.5 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: bastarda
Decoration: initials (layout features); pen-flourished initials; rubrics; rules (layout features); columns (layout features)
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 49. VELLUM LEAF FROM A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
GERMANY
Early XVIth Century
Latin Text
Lettre Bâtarde
Missal
(Missale)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
A Missal gives the service of the mass and is used by the clergy
The text is lengthy and in this large script would occupy many hundred pages
One wonders why this particular manuscript copy on vellum was written some forty years after Antonius Zarotus had printed the first Missal in Milan (1471 A.D.), for, at this time, Missals were frequently reprinted on paper and sold at only a fraction of the cost of a manuscript copy
This bâtarde style of semi-gothic script was the molding force for the fraktur and schwabacher type-faces which dominated German printing for several centuries.
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century

Keyword:

Missals

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/191

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:191/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University