The Weber Leaf from “The Warburg Missal” (Otto Ege Manuscript 22)
July 5, 2022 in Manuscript Studies
The Weber Leaf
from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 22’
(The Warburg Missal)
Collection of Richard Weber
Latin Missal made in Germany circa 1325
Written in Gothic Script (Textualis)
Folio Number Absent
Double columns of 31 lines
Circa 360 × 257 mm < written area circa 289 × 190 mm >
with Rubrications,
Inset Initials in Red or Blue,
and Musical Notation in Hufnagelschrift (“Horseshoe-Nail Notes”)
on 4-Line Staves
[Posted on 5 July 2022]
Front Cover for Report by Leslie J. French for Wagner Leaf from Ege MS 22 (2021)
With thanks to the collector, Richard Weber, we examine a leaf from one of the manuscripts dispersed by Otto F. Ege (1888–1951). It comes from ‘Ege Manuscript 22’, a Latin Missal written in double columns of 30–32 lines in Gothic Script, with musical notation.
An earlier blogpost by Mildred Budny and the companion Report Booklet (2021) by Leslie J. French examine another Leaf from the same manuscript, set it in its former context, and re-assess the attribution of the book.
See:
- Another Leaf from the Warburg Missal in the Collection of J. S. Wagner.
- A Leaf from the Warburg Missal (“Ege MS 22”) containing part of The Mass for Corpus Christi and its Relation to Other Leaves.
Already, too, we have examined some other materials in the Collection of Richard Weber, with several blogposts — with more on the way.
- A Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 214’ in the Collection of Richard Weber
- More Leaves from an Old Armenian Praxapostolos
- Portfolio 93 of Ege’s “Famous Books in Eight Centuries” in the Collection of Richard Weber.
Now we turn to a leaf from Otto Ege’s dispersals that stands outside a specific set of a Portfolio, but with its original Ege Label and mat. Normally, ‘Ege Manuscript 22’ would belong to the Portfolio of Fifty Original Leaves from from Medieval Manuscripts, as a specimen leaf in position Number 22 out of the 50. See, for example:
In this case, the Leaf must speak for itself.