Another important and insightful #OttoEge thread from @lisafdavis.bsky.social ! Especially for us in Ohio with so many of his dismembered leaves floating around.

So interesting! We too have #OttoEge leaves!
See ours online: bit.ly/ege-50origin...

Great read!
And check out our #OttoEge 50 Leaves online at bit.ly/ege-50origin...

Manuscript Road Trip: In Otto Ege’s Footsteps Ohio is one of the areas of the country richest in medieval manuscripts, with more than 2200 codices and 2400 leaves in at least thirty-three collections. In fact, once you leave the East coast, Oh…

#OttoEge alert! So excited to learn that @rarebookschool.bsky.social has acquired Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves" box no. 33 (RBS 9542), never before studied! If you aren't versed in Ege lore, learn about everyone's favorite biblioclast here: manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/m...

A chart from p. 7 of Otto F. Ege’s 1923 Pre-Alphabet Days. Decorations and Frontispiece by Edward D. Edwards. (Baltimore: Norman T.A. Munder & Co., Inc.).

Um, what? #ottoege

#OttoEge alert! New digitization of Ege leaves from @unioncollege.bsky.social Special Collections, including their gorgeous Beauvais Missal leaf! (already in my @fragmentarium.bsky.social sequence, but now I can add the manifest link to the record!) Keep'em coming, people! arches.union.edu/Ege

Otto Ege leaf #25, Psalter, France.

Happy #MedievalMonday & #ManuscriptMonday!
Painted sometime in the 1300s, this simple decorative illumination is on a 19x14cm vellum leaf of a Psalter. Biblioclast #OttoEge incl it in his 1950s Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts set. bit.ly/ou-ege25-psalter #IlluminatedManuscript

Detail of handwriting, with a large decorative initial in blue and rubricated text in red, from a lectern Bible manuscript produced in Bohemia or Germany in 1507.

Detail of handwriting, with a large decorative initial and rubricated text in red, from a lectern Bible manuscript produced in Bohemia or Germany in 1507.

Parchment folio from a lectern Bible manuscript produced in Bohemia or Germany in 1507, preserving text from IV (II) Kings 11:18-13:14.

Parchment folio from a lectern Bible manuscript produced in Bohemia or Germany in 1507, preserving text from IV (II) Kings 11:18-13:14.

Yet another new #OttoEge #ManuscriptFragment find in a private Ohio collection: leaf from a lectern Bible (HL 44) produced in Germany or Bohemia, 1507; text from IV (II) Kings 11:18-13:14. Ege incorporated sister leaves as MS 44 in his famous 50 Original Leaves portfolio. #fragmentology

Another new Otto Ege #MedievalManuscript find in a private Ohio collection: leaf from an Italian pocket Bible (HL 11), one of the MSS included in the Fifty Original Leaves portfolio. Text = Isaiah 43:13-44:19. #fragmentology #ManuscriptFragment #OttoEge

A manuscript folio from a codex dismembered by Otto Ege to produce the Fifty Original Leaves from Famous MSS portfolio, this one from a mid-12th century Italian Lectionary with a large blue and red decorated initial (HL 3).

A manuscript folio from a codex dismembered by Otto Ege to produce the Fifty Original Leaves from Famous MSS portfolio, this one from an illuminated lectern Bible produced ca. 1325 (HL 14).

A manuscript folio from a codex dismembered by Otto Ege to produce the Fifty Original Leaves from Famous MSS portfolio, this one from a mid-14th century Book of Hours (HL 25).

A manuscript folio from a codex dismembered by Otto Ege to produce the Fifty Original Leaves from Famous MSS portfolio, this one from a mid-15th century Missal produced for the Use of Rouen (HL 26).

More NE Ohio fragment finds from last Friday, this time #OttoEge #ManuscriptFragments: loose folios from Fifty Original Leaves from Famous MSS: HLs 3, 14, 25, & 26. With any luck all these will be donated at some point. In the meantime, having photos fills in some gaps #fragmentology #OhioMSS

Detail of script in a leaf from a ca. 1175-1200 manuscript Missal broken and dispersed by the famous biblioclast, Otto Ege.

Picture of the recto side of a leaf from a ca. 1175-1200 manuscript Missal broken and dispersed by the famous biblioclast, Otto Ege.

Picture of the verso side of a leaf from a ca. 1175-1200 manuscript Missal broken and dispersed by the famous biblioclast, Otto Ege.

Detail of script in a leaf from a ca. 1175-1200 manuscript Missal broken and dispersed by the famous biblioclast, Otto Ege. At the extreme right are guide letters for the rubricated text included in red in the text block.

New #OttoEge find in private Ohio collection: leaf from HL 2, late-12C Missal from southern Bohemia / northern Austria and possibly (likely?) once in use at Vyšší Brod monastery. Note the scribal guide words for rubrics in the folio's gutter #ManuscriptFragments #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts

Picture of the original metal printing plate for Otto Ege's portfolio set, "Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries, 1121-1935 A.D."

New donation to my library: the original metal printing plate for Otto Ege's portfolio set, "Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries, 1121-1935 A.D." An interesting piece of Ohio MS history and the state's complex & problematic legacy of manuscript-breaking #OttoEge #Fragmentology

I am very pleased & proud to present my Simmons Univ. Library Science students' Fragmentarium.ms resequence of #OttoEge no. 36, a tiny broken Book of Hours. I'm so proud of these real life fragmentologists! Their future employers will be lucky to have them on staff. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...

Lovely piece about the donation of a Beauvais Missal leaf to UConn: #OttoEge #Fragmentology today.uconn.edu/2023/12/page...