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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3366

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.108

Title:

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

Lectionary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1100 and 1125.

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 335 x 240 (237 x 135) mm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

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:

Protogothic

Lectionaries

Digital images

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Manuscripts, Medieval

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444701

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q43r/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library