Rare Book collection set: This compilation is one of six known extant sets, and is the only fully intact instance, without loss or addition of leaves and with portfolio and mattes intact -- Conversation with Scott Gwara, 2022/03/04
Title from portfolio cover. Individual leaves are identified by typed descriptions inside the mattes.
Although the intermediate provenance was originally unclear, the roster of leaves and the matting style are entirely consistent with Otto F. Ege's Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts. The portfolio was acquired prior to the posthumous issuance of "Fifty leaves" and the portfolio is simpler than the later "Famous books" sets put out by Duschene in 1947-1949. Unlike the formally issued sets, this set lacks the index page and letterpress annotations. Subsequently, by virtue of Gwara's scholarship, this portfolio is identified as no.9 of Ege's initial "Sets of Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts," titled in the catalog as "Five original illuminated manuscript leaves from the finer scriptoria of Europe."
