Preliminary Handlist of
Bibliographical References
about Fragments
(Manuscript and Printed)
For 2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments
List compiled
by Mildred Budny, Debra Lacoste, and others
Suggestions and Additions to this List are Welcome
[First posted on 1 November 2025, with updates]
For information on the Colloquium, see
A Handlist of Bibliographical Sources
and Suggestions for Reading or Viewing
Altstatt, Alison. 2016. “Re-Membering The Wilton Processional” Notes 72/4: 690-732.
Arumaeus, Dominicus, Discursus Academici de Iure Publico (Jena: Rachmaul, 1620–1623)
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Otto F. Ege Collection
(https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/11062)
Budny, Mildred, et al. “Manuscript Studies” (RGME Blog)
1) Blog (https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/manuscript-studies/)
2) Contents List (https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/manuscript-studies-contents-list/)
Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant – Inventories of Chant Sources (https://cantusdatabase.org)
Cantus Index: Catalogue of Chant Texts and Melodies (https://cantusindex.org/)
Chalmers, John P., “Checklist”, in Christopher de Hamel and Joel Silver, eds., Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered, with Contributions by John P. Chalmers, Daniel W. Mosser, and Michael Thompson (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2005), 107-137
Chalmers, John P., “Index to the Checklist”, in Christopher de Hamel and Joel Silver, eds., Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered, with Contributions by John P. Chalmers, Daniel W. Mosser, and Michael Thompson (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2005), 138-151
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/)
Davis, Lisa Fagin, “Manuscript Road Trip”
(https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/)
de Hamel, Christopher, and Joel Silver, eds., Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered, with Contributions by John P. Chalmers, Daniel W. Mosser, and Michael Thompson (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2005)
Denison University, “Otto Ege Collection” database (https://ege.denison.edu)
Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT, https://dact-chant.ca/)
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM, https://www.diamm.ac.uk/)
Digital Scriptorium (https://digital-scriptorium.org/)
Ege, Otto F., compiler, Fifty Original Leaves (FOL) from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI Century (Cleveland, Ohio: Otto F. Ege, 1930-1950)
Ege, Otto F., compiler, Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries, 1121 A.D. – 1935 A.D.
- Series A (New York, Philip C. Duschnes, 1936)
- Series B (New York, Philip C. Duschnes, 1938)
Ege, Otto F.., compiler, Original Leaves from Famous Books,
- Eight Centuries, 1240-1923 A.D. (New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1949)
- Nine Centuries, 1122-1923 A.D. (New York, Philip C. Duschnes, 1949)
Fragmentarium: Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments (fragmentarium.ms)
Gwara, Scott. Otto Ege’s Manuscripts: A Study of Ege’s Manuscript Collections, Portfolios, and Retail Trade, with a Comprehensive Handlist of Manuscripts Collected or Sold. (Cayce, SC: De Brailes, 2013)
Medieval Academy of America, Database of Medieval Digital Resources: A Curated Guide and Database (MDR) (https://mdr-maa.org)
Mosser, Daniel W., “William Caxton’s First Edition of the Canterbury Tales and the Origin of the Leaves for the Caxton Club’s 1905 Leaf Book”, in Christopher de Hamel and Joel Silver, eds., Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered, with Contributions by John P. Chalmers, Daniel W. Mosser, and Michael Thompson (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2005), 24-51
“Otto F. Ege” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Ege
The Peripheral Manuscripts Project: Digitizing Medieval Manuscript Collections in the Midwest (https://peripheralmss.org)
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Official website
(Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
See above for RGME Blog “Manuscript Studies”
Rochester Institute of Technology, Cary Graphic Arts Collection
(https://www.rit.edu/carycollection/)
Shailor, Barbara A. “Otto Ege: His Manuscript Fragment Collection and the Opportunities Presented by Electronic Technology”, The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, Vol. 60 (2003), 1–22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14713/
Abstract:
What do the following institutions with special collections of rare books and manuscripts have in common: Rutgers University Libraries, The Boston University School of Theology Library, Columbia University Libraries, the Houghton Library of Harvard University, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University? They all have individual leaves of manuscripts formerly in the proud possession of one man named Otto Ege. And, indeed, it is possible to expand upon this list by adding the names of at least twenty other museums, college and university libraries, and private collections. This article explores the life and career of Otto Ege the dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art and a collector of medieval manuscripts and his dismembering of medieval codices and distributing their single leaves to libraries, museums, and collectors. The author points to the promise of digitally reconstructing the original codices.
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