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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."

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Inclusive Dates

1325 -1485

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No Known Copyright

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Lima, Ohio : Otto F. Ege

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In Ege Manuscript Collection

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Rare Book collection set: No. 3.

Rare Book collection leaf [1] from "Vulgate Bible (Dominican. Paris, ca. 1240)" appears to be from the Psalms, spanning most of Psalms 83-88. Includes rubrication.

Rare Book collection leaf [6] from "Nuremberg Chronicle / Schedel (Nuremberg, Germany, 1493)" is "Sextus"

Rare Book collection leaf [7] from "The Justinian code (Paris, France, 1512)" is Fol. Cxxix.

Rare Book collection leaf [8] from "Natural history / Pliny (Basle, Switzerland, 1525)" is page 291-292

Rare Book collection leaf [9] from "Adages / Erasmus (Basle, Switzerland, 1528)" is page 261-262.

Rare Book collection leaf [10] from "Anatomy / Vesalius (Basle, Switzerland, 1555)" is page 459-460. Rare Book collection leaf [11] from "Sonnets and canzoni / Petrarch (Venice, Italy, 1559)" is page 49-50.

Rare Book collection leaf [12] from "Writings / Hippocrates (Venice, Italy, 1585)" is page 299-300.

Rare Book collection leaf [13] from "History of plants / John Gerard (London, England, 1597)" is page 1145-1146 (mounted verso side forward, with illustration).

Rare Book collection leaf [14] from "Voyages / Richard Hakluyt (London, England, 1508-1600)" is page 154-153 (mounted verso side forward.. Rare Book collection leaf [15] from "The works of Geoffrey Chaucer (London, England, 1602)" is Fol. 117.

Rare Book collection leaf [16] from "Don Quixote / Miguel Cervantes (Madrid, Spain, 1608)" is leaf 172.

Rare Book collection leaf [17] from "The Holy Bible (King James Version) (London, England, 1611)" consists of Leviticus 16:19b-. Rare Book collection leaf [18] from "The advancement of learning : the new Atlantis, and other writings / Francis Bacon (London, England, 1638)" is page 369-370.

Rare Book collection leaf [19] from "Comedies, histories, tragedies (The fourth folio) / William Shakespeare (London, England, 1685)" is page 5-6.

Title from preliminary leaf.

Consists of an "Annotated chronological index" (leaf [0]), 3 original Medieval ms. leaves, and 22 original leaves from printed books; each leaf matted and with descriptive letterpress slip attached to lower left corner.

"Limited to one hundred and ten numbered sets"--Label on inside front cover. In portfolio.

There was also a deluxe issue, with subtitle "nine centuries, 1122-1923 A.D." and 40 original leaves, in 50 numbered sets.

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Inclusive Dates

1240 A.D.-1923 A.D.

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No Known Copyright

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New York : Philip C. Duschnes

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Rare Book collection copy: no. 46.

Rare Book collection leaf from "Vulgate Bible (Dominican. Paris, ca. 1240)" appears to be from 4 Kings (that is, 2 Kings, in Authorized notation), spanning most of Ch. XVII and the first half of Ch. XVIII.

Rare Book collection leaf from "Book of Hours (France, ca. 1460)" appears to be from the Office of Our Lady, Lauds.

Title from "Annotated chronological index."

Publication information from Chalmers, Checklist, in Disbound and dispersed : the leaf book considered. Chicago : Caxton Club, c2005.

Forty monted leaves, with annotated chronological index, boxed.

"Deluxe edition limited to fifty numbered sets ..."--Label inside cover of box.

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1122 A.D. - 1923 A.D.

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No Known Copyright

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New York : Philip C. Duschnes

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Rare Book collection leaf from "Breviary leaf (Florence, Italy, 1465) includes text from Psalm 102.

Rare Book collection leaf from "Missal leaf (Beauvais, France, 1285)" has been identified as leaf 112 of the "Beauvais Missal," and first leaf of a new quire. It is an early component of the Sanctorale or Proper of the Saints, specifically for the Feast Day of Sts. Philip and James.

Rare Book collection leaf from "Vulgate Bible (Cambridge, England, 1210)," appears to encompass the last chapter of 1st Maccabees and the first chapter of 2nd Maccabees. The prominent gold initial appears to be the initial F in the first line of 2nd Maccabees, "Fratribut quisune per Egyptum Judeis."

Rare Book collection leaf from "Book of hours (School of Paris, 1440)" features a full-page miniature of the Crucifixion of Christ, flanked by the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdelene, with the text, "Domine labia mea apies et os meam annunciabit," continuing with "laudam tuam" on the verso. These are the opening lines to the Office of Our Blessed Lady at Matins.

Rare Book collection leaf from "Psalms.[sic] (France, ca. 1300)" appears to encompass the closing verses of Isaiah 16 through the beginning verses of Isaiah 21.

Title from portfolio cover

Although the intermediate provenance was 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 is simpler than the later "Famous books" sets put out by Duschnes in 1949, and may have been fabricated post-acquisition. 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 consisting of individually purchased leaves, most of which ultimately would also figure in the posthumously issued "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolio

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Inclusive Dates

1210-1465

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Digital Publisher

Cleveland, Ohio : Otto F. Ege

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