Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.108
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3366
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.108
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 12th-century lectionary : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- between 1100 and 1125.
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 335 x 240 (237 x 135) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ege, Otto F
- Note:
- Ms. Leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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 manilla folder.
Origin: Written in Italy in the early twelfth century.
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...
Immediate source of acquisition: Given to the Boston Public Library by Otto Ege in 1941.
Call number: MS pb Med.108.
Former call number: MS 1536.
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. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444701
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q43r/manifest
- Holding Institution:
