{"id":5557,"date":"2015-09-16T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T01:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=5557"},"modified":"2026-03-21T01:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:11:34","slug":"manuscript-studies-contents-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies-contents-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuscript Studies: Contents List"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Series of Blogposts<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_5281\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-initial-M.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5281\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5281 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-initial-M.png\" alt=\"Detail of verso of a leaf from the Office of the Dead in a Book of Hours, with the polychrome Initial M (of 'Manus') with an inset pair of trefoil leaves or fruits against gold leaf background. Photograph \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"176\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-initial-M.png 176w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-initial-M-150x134.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M for &#8216;Manus&#8217; (&#8216;Hand&#8217;)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/category\/manuscript-studies\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Manuscript Studies<\/strong><\/a>, begun in 2015, reports and illustrates a variety of manuscripts, fragments, and documents, sometimes with seals included.\u00a0 In keeping with our interests in manuscript and other evidence, some posts consider printed materials, including early printed evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Some posts include Booklets downloadable in PDF format.\u00a0 The Booklets are set in our copyright font <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a> (available for FREE) and laid out according to the principles of our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/style-manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Style Manifesto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The materials belong to different owners, who allow us to study these materials long-term and report the research results, with photographs reproduced by permission.<\/p>\n<p>With guest bloggers as they can join us, our Director <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.academia.edu\/MildredBudny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mildred Budny<\/a> produces many of the blogposts.\u00a0 You could learn more about her work, activities, and interests, and view her <em>Curriculum Vitae<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/mildred-budny-her-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mildred Budny: Her Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some Posts report discoveries relating to Items in Mildred Budny&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/the-illustrated-handlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illustrated Handlist<\/a> of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts, Documents, and Printed Materials. They are indicated here by <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Handlist Numbers<\/span> in red.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Guest Bloggers<\/strong> so far <strong>(in chronological order of posting):<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Linde M. Brocato<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/lillian-vail-dymond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lillian Vail Diamond<\/a> (July 2016)<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Zoey Kambour<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/lead-the-people-forward-by-zoey-kambour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lead the People Forward<\/a> (February 2022)<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Hannah Goeselt<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-13th-century-pocket-vulgate-bible-at-smith-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 13th-Century Pocket Vulgate Bible at Smith College: The Dimock Bible<\/a> (October 2023)<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Georgi Parpulov<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/to-whom-do-manuscripts-belong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To Whom Do Manuscripts Belong?<\/a> (May 2024)<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Dana Delibovi<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/delibovi-on-glassgold-on-boethius-a-blogpost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana Delibovi on Glassgold on Boethius: A Blogpost<\/a>\u00a0 (March 2025)<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you have a blogpost to contribute?\u00a0 Do you have suggestions for subjects?\u00a0 We welcome your imput.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>With thanks to Susan L\u2019Engle for including it in the newsletter <em>Manuscripts on My Mind:\u00a0 News from the <a href=\"http:\/\/lib.slu.edu\/special-collections\/collections\/vfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Vatican Film Library<\/a><\/em>, a first list of the posts was reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/lib.slu.edu\/files\/special-collections\/publications\/vfl-newsletter-no-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Number 16<\/a> (page 15).\u00a0 This discourse gave inspiration for preparing a list of the posts as they appear.<\/p>\n<p>You are Here.<\/p>\n<p>We provide a Contents List for these Reports, grouped mostly by subjects.\u00a0 The groups so far:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Prequel:\u00a0 Preludes to our Blog<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Virtual Exhibitions (&#8220;1. Galleries&#8221; and &#8220;2. Specimens of Watermarks&#8221;)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Our Blog on &#8220;Manuscript Studies&#8221;:\u00a0 Contents by Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>I.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Setting the Stage<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>II.\u00a0 \u00a0Documents in Question<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>III. Isolated Manuscript Fragments (Bits &amp; Pieces)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>IV. Dispersed Manuscript Fragments Reassembled, at Least Virtually<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Ege\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto Ege<\/a> Manuscripts included)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>V.\u00a0 \u00a0 Manuscript Leaves or Bifolia Reused as Covers for Later Materials and Still <em>In Situ<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>VI.\u00a0 \u00a0Manuscripts and Composite Manuscripts<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>VII.\u00a0 Early Printed Materials<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>VIII. Books Telling Stories<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>IX.\u00a0 \u00a0Stories About Books: Points of View<br \/>\nX.\u00a0 \u00a0 Memoirs<br \/>\nXI.\u00a0 The RGME Library &amp; Archives<br \/>\nXII. Projects &amp; Collaborative Studies<br \/>\nXIII. Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence:<br \/>\nMeetings, Competitions &amp; Recipes<br \/>\nXIV. <\/strong><strong>For Future Reference [<em>More to come<\/em> . . . ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>The Prequel<\/h1>\n<p>Some posts and pages on our website, once it had been updated so as to carry images, paved the way for this blog.\u00a0 For example:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/research-group-archives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Group Archives<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Records in written, visual, material, and digital forms report moments, stages, and activities in the life of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, with observations on the creation of the blog on Manuscript Studies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140509232141im_\/http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/data\/themes\/Manev\/header5.jpg\" alt=\"Header for the RGME website\" width=\"827\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/galleries-contents-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Galleries: Images on Exhibition<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>With their own <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/galleries-contents-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents List<\/a>, the Galleries display specimens (or &#8220;Parades&#8221;) of Scripts &amp; Texts through the ages, from Antiquity to the Modern Age, as well as examples of our own Designs &amp; Layout.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7128 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P9010427-Work-in-Progress-Recettes-Cover-150x126.jpg\" alt=\"The Medieval-Psalter-Covered French Notebook in course of photography, archivally-sensitive equipment in place. Vire from the front cover, with untied ties. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.\" width=\"150\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P9010427-Work-in-Progress-Recettes-Cover-150x126.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P9010427-Work-in-Progress-Recettes-Cover-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P9010427-Work-in-Progress-Recettes-Cover-1024x857.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-pilgrims-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Recollections of strangers&#8217; hospitality in Switzerland in early spring on the way to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abbey_library_of_Saint_Gall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stiftsbibliothek<\/a> in Saint Gallen to examine its early medieval manuscripts, including some made or inspired by Insular artists\u00a0\u2014 pilgrims?\u00a0\u2014 from the British Isles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12983\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12983\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12983 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/e-codices_csg-0060_005_max-rotated-and-cropped-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 60: 'Evangelium S. Johannis' via (https:\/\/www.e-codices.unifr.ch\/en\/list\/one\/csg\/0060).\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/e-codices_csg-0060_005_max-rotated-and-cropped-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/e-codices_csg-0060_005_max-rotated-and-cropped-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/e-codices_csg-0060_005_max-rotated-and-cropped-768x1105.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/e-codices_csg-0060_005_max-rotated-and-cropped-712x1024.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 60: &#8216;Evangelium S. Johannis&#8217; via https:\/\/www.e-codices.unifr.ch\/en\/list\/one\/csg\/0060.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-seminar-on-manuscripts-and-their-photographs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Show &amp; Tell&#8217; Seminar on Manuscripts &amp; Their Photographs<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Reflections on the photography of manuscripts and written materials made under a variety of conditions, revealing aspects that a single image could not.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3152\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Initial-P-of-Prayer-in-Book-of-Hours.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3152\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3152 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Initial-P-of-Prayer-in-Book-of-Hours-135x150.png\" alt=\"Initial P of Prayer in Book of Hours, with Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"135\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Initial-P-of-Prayer-in-Book-of-Hours-135x150.png 135w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Initial-P-of-Prayer-in-Book-of-Hours-271x300.png 271w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Initial-P-of-Prayer-in-Book-of-Hours.png 753w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>Virtual Exhibitions<\/h1>\n<p>Some Pages on this site gather images of original materials for study, research, teaching, and exhibition.\u00a0 With a range that continues to grow, the <strong>Galleries<\/strong> offer scope for exhibition of specimens and examples, from which sometimes emerge fuller reports or case-studies for our blog (see its Contents List below). \u00a0 In turn, as our blog continues to expand, with more research discoveries, we set up another Page for <strong>Specimens<\/strong> focused specifically on Watermarks and their Paper, so as to gather cases encountered in our blog and other research on materials of varied dates, origins,and purposes.<\/p>\n<h2>1.\u00a0 Galleries<\/h2>\n<p>The Galleries showcase a variety of images and designs.\u00a0 A <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/galleries-contents-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents List<\/a> describes some of the range, which continues to grow.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>I.\u00a0 Specimens of Scripts, Writing Systems &amp; Texts through the Ages<br \/>\nFrom Antiquity to the Modern World<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/scripts-on-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scripts on Parade<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/texts-on-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texts on Parade<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3455\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3455\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3455 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/T0b-4-Coptic-fragment-on-paper-9th-or-10th-c1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Coptic fragment on paper, 10th century CE. Private Collection. (Purchased in London in the 1980s from the dregs of an antiquarian book-shop or antiquities-shop which closed down in the 1940s.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/T0b-4-Coptic-fragment-on-paper-9th-or-10th-c1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/T0b-4-Coptic-fragment-on-paper-9th-or-10th-c1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/T0b-4-Coptic-fragment-on-paper-9th-or-10th-c1.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Coptic fragment on paper, 10th century CE.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>II.\u00a0 Examples of Design &amp; Layout <\/strong><strong>by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/ghent-seals-gallery\/rgme-posters-display\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Group Posters on Display<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/ghent-seals-gallery\/layout-designs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Layout Designs<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_12958\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12958\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12958 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Poster-2-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"2020 Symposium &quot;From Cover to Cover&quot; Poster 2\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Poster-2-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Poster-2-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Poster-2-with-border.png 617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2020 Symposium Poster 2<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>2. Specimens of Watermarks<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/watermarks-and-the-history-of-paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watermarks &amp; the History of Paper<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>With a view toward presentation in searchable database format, we gather specimens of Watermarks, some with dated or datable usage, found on paper in manuscripts, documents, printed materials, and other locations, from a variety of times and places.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13634\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13634\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13634 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0219-Postilla-back-endleaf-watermark-darkened-cropped-and-reversed-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, Back Endpaper for Printed Postilla.\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0219-Postilla-back-endleaf-watermark-darkened-cropped-and-reversed-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0219-Postilla-back-endleaf-watermark-darkened-cropped-and-reversed-140x150.jpg 140w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0219-Postilla-back-endleaf-watermark-darkened-cropped-and-reversed-768x821.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0219-Postilla-back-endleaf-watermark-darkened-cropped-and-reversed-958x1024.jpg 958w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0219-Postilla-back-endleaf-watermark-darkened-cropped-and-reversed.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Endpaper with Pilgrim Watermark.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now see also<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David W. Sorenson, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/15299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photographing Watermarks for Beginners<\/a>:\u00a0 A &#8220;Quick and Dirty&#8221; Guide (2021), an illustrated 25-page paper in pdf format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h1>Our Blog on &#8216;Manuscript Studies&#8217;:<br \/>\nContents by Category<\/h1>\n<h1>I.\u00a0 Setting the Stage<\/h1>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/foundling-hospital-for-manuscript-fragments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The \u2018Foundling Hospital\u2019 for Manuscript Fragments<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Case of One of My Favorite Manuscripts, Ripped Up, Alas, by the Center That Made It.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4831\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Royal-1-E.VI-folio-43r-canvas.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4831\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4831 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Royal-1-E.VI-folio-43r-canvas-300x124.png\" alt=\"Royal MS 1 E.VI, folio 43r. From www.bl.uk\/digitised manuscripts, via Creative Commons Public Domain\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Royal-1-E.VI-folio-43r-canvas-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Royal-1-E.VI-folio-43r-canvas-150x62.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Royal-1-E.VI-folio-43r-canvas-1024x422.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Royal-1-E.VI-folio-43r-canvas.png 1511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 British Library Board, Royal MS 1 E.VI, folio 43r. Reproduced by permission<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/lost-and-foundlings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost and Foundlings<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Sellers\u2019 Tells, Sadly, with a Preview of Examples Dispersed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Ege\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto F. Ege<\/a> (1888\u20131951).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3646\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P9306790-Facing-the-Music-branded.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3646\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3646 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P9306790-Facing-the-Music-branded-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Penwork extending from a decorated initial extends below the final line of text and ends in a horned animal head which looks into its direction. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P9306790-Facing-the-Music-branded-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P9306790-Facing-the-Music-branded-119x150.jpg 119w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P9306790-Facing-the-Music-branded.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-groupies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuscript Groupies<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Light-Hearted View of Group Portraits, when it comes to Manuscripts and Their Best Sides, Photo Ops Included.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5194\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Group-Portrait-View-1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5194\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5194 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Group-Portrait-View-1-150x99.png\" alt=\"6 leaves in the 'Handlist', shown variously in their rectos or versos, by chance as the occasion arose. Photography by Mildred Budny\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Group-Portrait-View-1-150x99.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Group-Portrait-View-1-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Group-Portrait-View-1-1024x678.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/center-fold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center-Fold<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Another Light-Hearted View, Celebrating a Volunteer <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/center-fold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CopyCat Editor<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7139\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN1294-Mistie-as-Center-Fold-for-feature-image.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7139\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7139 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN1294-Mistie-as-Center-Fold-for-feature-image-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN1294 Mistie as Center Fold for feature image\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN1294-Mistie-as-Center-Fold-for-feature-image-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN1294-Mistie-as-Center-Fold-for-feature-image-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN1294-Mistie-as-Center-Fold-for-feature-image-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN1294-Mistie-as-Center-Fold-for-feature-image.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[<em>Update:<\/em> By popular request, Miss Mistie now has her very own Fan Club. See <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/misties-fan-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mistie&#8217;s Fan Page<\/a>, with more pictures and anecdotes.]<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/revisiting Anglo-Saxon Symposia 2002\/2018\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Revisiting Anglo-Saxon Symposia 2002\/2018<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A reflection upon processes over time of examining Anglo-Saxon and related manuscripts, with a focus upon a layered, monumental manuscript whose study notably prepared the way for the approaches of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11604\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11604\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11604 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181214_162019-Julia-Smith-Introduces-the-Royal-Bible-cropped-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"Julia Smith introduces The Royal Bible of Saint Augustine's Anbbey Canterbury in her Plenary Lecture December 2018. Photograph by Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181214_162019-Julia-Smith-Introduces-the-Royal-Bible-cropped-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181214_162019-Julia-Smith-Introduces-the-Royal-Bible-cropped-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181214_162019-Julia-Smith-Introduces-the-Royal-Bible-cropped-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181214_162019-Julia-Smith-Introduces-the-Royal-Bible-cropped-1024x599.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Smith introduces The Royal Bible of Saint Augustine&#8217;s Abbey Canterbury in her Plenary Lecture in December 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>II.\u00a0 Documents in Question<\/h1>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/curiouser-and-curiouser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curiouser and Curiouser<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Most Strange Seal on a Paper Document of A.D. 1345, Old Style, from Grenoble.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/4151.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4617 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/4151-140x150.jpg\" alt=\"The red wax seal seen upright, with the male human head facing left. Document on paper issued at Grenoble and dated 13 February 1345 (Old Style). Image reproduced by permission\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/4151-140x150.jpg 140w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/4151-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/4151.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/scrap-of-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scrap of Information<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Puzzling Fragment from a French Charter with the Date, Maybe Accurate, of 1538.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0462-Scrap-cropped-to-date.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5311 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0462-Scrap-cropped-to-date-300x225.png\" alt=\"The Date 1538 on the Scrap, enhanced with photographic lighting. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0462-Scrap-cropped-to-date-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0462-Scrap-cropped-to-date-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0462-Scrap-cropped-to-date.png 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/full-court-preston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full Court Preston<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Pair of 13th-Century Documents, Missing Their Seals, from Preston, Near Ipswich, in Suffolk<br \/>\n(Competition with Book Prizes Included).<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zoo13poster-16-Document-with-bag-cropped-for-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5655\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zoo13poster-16-Document-with-bag-cropped-for-Web.jpg\" alt=\"Cloth bag, now empty, for the original seal to authenticate the document, which remains intact, for a transaction of about the mid 13th-century at Preston, near Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. Photograph reproduced by permission.\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zoo13poster-16-Document-with-bag-cropped-for-Web.jpg 200w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zoo13poster-16-Document-with-bag-cropped-for-Web-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/italian-notarial-roll-of-1305-from-cesena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italian Notarial Roll of 1305 from Cesena<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A complete documentary scroll from Emelia-Romagna in North-East Italy, with Notarial Sign and Signature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Long-scroll-interior-bottom-branded-for-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6380 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Long-scroll-interior-bottom-branded-for-web-300x213.png\" alt=\"The notarial sign and attestation of authentication. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Long-scroll-interior-bottom-branded-for-web-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Long-scroll-interior-bottom-branded-for-web-150x106.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Long-scroll-interior-bottom-branded-for-web.png 446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/lillian-vail-dymond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lillian Vail Dymond<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A guest blogpost by Linde M. Brocato considers the case, such as by adoption, of the several names which official documents might adopt at various times when referring to a single individual, particularly for an individual whose history passes through various times and places with different forms of record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lmb.birth_.certificate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7476 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lmb.birth_.certificate-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Blanked out Birth certificate after adoption completed.\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lmb.birth_.certificate-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lmb.birth_.certificate-150x146.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lmb.birth_.certificate.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/heidere-diplomas-and-investiture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heidere Diplomas &amp; Investiture<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Celebrating collegiality, we presented a supersized pair of especially designed &#8216;Diplomas&#8217; (official and unofficial) for our Honorary Invited Associate, James P. Heidere, D. D. S., when he requested a diploma attesting to that honor, to hang in his dental office, along with all the others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11586\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11586 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Heidere-Diploma-2-at-100-dpi-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Heidere Diploma 2 in the Unofficial Version, with puns aplenty. The Diploma has an elaborate interlace border around the proclamation.\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Heidere-Diploma-2-at-100-dpi-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Heidere-Diploma-2-at-100-dpi-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Heidere-Diploma-2-at-100-dpi-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Heidere-Diploma-2-at-100-dpi-80x50.jpg 80w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Heidere-Diploma-2-at-100-dpi.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heidere Diploma 2 in the Unofficial Version<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/fit-to-be-tied\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fit to Be Tied<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A single-sheet document of Cardinal\u2013Bishop B\u00e9rengar de Fr\u00e9dul concerning a dispute at Calahorra, bearing the date 13 July 1320, and carrying a red cord tie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1371 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Berengarius-detail-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Opening of Indulgence from Pope John XXIII for Berengarius, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Berengarius-detail-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Berengarius-detail-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Berengarius-detail-1024x760.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/say-cheese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Say Cheese<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>An Undated Single-sheet Document in French, written by a single hand probably during the 1530s (presumably in the very region), records a survey of rents for plots of land from the region of Brie in France.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/brie-right-half-trimmed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9818 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/brie-right-half-trimmed-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"Right-hand half of face of Single-sheet document in French on vellum, circa 1530s, listing rents for plots of land, from Brie in France. Private collection, reproduced by permission.\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/brie-right-half-trimmed-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/brie-right-half-trimmed-150x138.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/brie-right-half-trimmed.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/latin-document-of-1437-on-vellum-from-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin Document of 1437 on Vellum from Barcelona<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A single-sheet document records one or more transactions concerning the sale of property from one &#8220;transporter of animals&#8221; to another (<em>curritorem animalium<\/em>). Apparently this large sheet formerly served as the cover for the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/fragments-of-a-castle-capbreu-from-catalonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fragments of a Castle &#8216;Capbreu&#8217; from Catalonia<\/a> (below).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11288\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11288\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11288 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/290-1437-Top-Left-rotated-Notarial-Signature-cropped-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/290-1437-Top-Left-rotated-Notarial-Signature-cropped-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/290-1437-Top-Left-rotated-Notarial-Signature-cropped-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/290-1437-Top-Left-rotated-Notarial-Signature-cropped.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notarial Signature Version 1<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/preston-take-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preston Take 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/full-court-preston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full Court Preston<\/a> (see above), the pair of 13th-century charters from Preston, recording the transfer of land from one individual to another, receive their prize-winning transcriptions and translations, now in the context of their larger group.\u00a0 There they comprise Charters 5 and 7.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12893\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12893\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12893 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5277-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"Preston Charter 7 Seal Face with the name Gilbertus.\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5277-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5277-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5277-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5277-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5277.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preston Charter 7 Seal Face with the name Gilbertus.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/preston-charters-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preston Charters, Continued<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Turning to Charters 6 and 9 of the Preston Charters, with one undated and the other dated to the reign of Edward II.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12896\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12896\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12896 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/819-No-6-face-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Preston Charter 6 Face.\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/819-No-6-face-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/819-No-6-face-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/819-No-6-face-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/819-No-6-face-1024x535.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preston Charter 6 Face.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/charter-the-course\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charter the Course:\u00a0 More on Preston Charters<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Charters 10 and 11 of the Preston Charters, both dated to the reign of Edward II.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12840\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12840\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12840 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2150-Boston-Preston-Charter-10-Face-Cropped-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Preston Charter 10 Face. Photograph Mildred Budny.\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2150-Boston-Preston-Charter-10-Face-Cropped-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2150-Boston-Preston-Charter-10-Face-Cropped-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2150-Boston-Preston-Charter-10-Face-Cropped-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2150-Boston-Preston-Charter-10-Face-Cropped-1024x635.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2150-Boston-Preston-Charter-10-Face-Cropped-80x50.jpg 80w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2150-Boston-Preston-Charter-10-Face-Cropped-598x372.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preston Charter 10 Face. Photograph Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/preston-charters-the-chierographs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preston Charters:\u00a0 The Chirographs<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Charters 12 and 13 of the Preston Charters, in the form of Chirographs, dating from the reigns of Edward IV and Elizabeth I, with Seals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12881\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12881\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12881 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_3878-Preston-Charter-13-Face-with-Guides-cropped-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Preston Charter 13 Face with Seal. Photograph Mildred Budny.\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_3878-Preston-Charter-13-Face-with-Guides-cropped-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_3878-Preston-Charter-13-Face-with-Guides-cropped-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_3878-Preston-Charter-13-Face-with-Guides-cropped-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_3878-Preston-Charter-13-Face-with-Guides-cropped-1024x597.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preston Charter 13 Face with Seal. Photograph Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-light-on-english-charters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Light on English Charters<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>2 more medieval and early modern English charters in Latin have surfaced in the same collection as the Preston Charters explored in earlier posts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13100\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13100\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13100 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Henry-VII-unnamed-Last-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"10 Henry VII Face.\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Henry-VII-unnamed-Last-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Henry-VII-unnamed-Last-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Henry-VII-unnamed-Last-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Henry-VII-unnamed-Last-1024x563.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">10 Henry VII Face.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-charter-of-1399-from-high-ongar-in-essex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Charter of 1399 (23 Richard II) from High Ongar in Essex<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A single-sheet Latin charter issued at <em>Alta Aungre<\/em> (High Ongar) in Essex on 17 July 1399, in Year 23 of the Reign of Richard II, refers also to other nearby places, which can be identified with reference to other surviving records.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13310\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13310\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13310 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/488-Latin-Charter-23-Richard-2-Face-Cropped-to-Tag-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, Document of 23 Richard II, Tag and Seal.\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/488-Latin-Charter-23-Richard-2-Face-Cropped-to-Tag-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/488-Latin-Charter-23-Richard-2-Face-Cropped-to-Tag-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/488-Latin-Charter-23-Richard-2-Face-Cropped-to-Tag.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Document of 23 Richard II, Tag and Seal.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/vellum-binding-fragments-in-a-parisian-printed-book-of-1598\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vellum Binding Fragments in a Parisian Printed Book of 1538<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A pair of strips from a signed legal document of some sort in Middle French remains<em> in situ<\/em> as the vellum supports for the outer gatherings of a copy, now lacking its binding, of <em>L\u2019Henry-Metre, Instrument Royal et Universal <span class=\"itemlist-details__title information\" data-descid=\"activities-1-1\" data-eid=\"38496424\" data-reid=\"14064938\">avec sa th\u00e9orique, usage et pratique d\u00e9montr\u00e9e<\/span><\/em>, by Henri de Suberville, printed in Paris by Adrien P\u00e9rier in 1598.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13802\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13802\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13802 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-Vellum-Supports-2020-Slip-2-Outer-Text-Rejoined-300x83.png\" alt=\"Smeltzer Collection, Suberville (1598), Vellum Support, Strip 2, Outer Flap 'Rejoined'.\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-Vellum-Supports-2020-Slip-2-Outer-Text-Rejoined-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-Vellum-Supports-2020-Slip-2-Outer-Text-Rejoined-150x41.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-Vellum-Supports-2020-Slip-2-Outer-Text-Rejoined-768x212.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-Vellum-Supports-2020-Slip-2-Outer-Text-Rejoined-1024x283.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-Vellum-Supports-2020-Slip-2-Outer-Text-Rejoined.png 1478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smeltzer Collection, Henri de Suberville (1598), Vellum Support, Strip 2, Outer Flap &#8216;Rejoined&#8217;.<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>III.\u00a0 Isolated Manuscript Fragments<\/h1>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/mass-saint-gregory-illustrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mass of Saint Gregory, Illustrated<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Leaf from a Prayerbook with a Late 15<sup>th<\/sup>-Century Illustration, probably made in France or the Netherlands, of the visionary Mass performed by Gregory the Great.\u00a0 To him appears the figure of Christ surrounded by Most of the Instruments and Agents of His Passion, upon a brilliant blue background.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_1340-Greg-Mass-leaf-X-head-Branded-reduced.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3970 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_1340-Greg-Mass-leaf-X-head-Branded-reduced-300x200.png\" alt=\"Detail of the head of Christ. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_1340-Greg-Mass-leaf-X-head-Branded-reduced-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_1340-Greg-Mass-leaf-X-head-Branded-reduced-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_1340-Greg-Mass-leaf-X-head-Branded-reduced.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/leaf-from-a-tiny-book-of-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leaf from a Tiny Book of Hours<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Leaf from the Hours of the Virgin in an Unknown 15th-century Book of Hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0470-Tiny-Book-of-Hours-Verso-cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5714 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0470-Tiny-Book-of-Hours-Verso-cropped-198x300.png\" alt=\"Detail of Verso from a Detached Leaf from a tiny Book of Hours, with the decorated initial I of 'In' within the Hours of the Virgin. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0470-Tiny-Book-of-Hours-Verso-cropped-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0470-Tiny-Book-of-Hours-Verso-cropped-99x150.png 99w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0470-Tiny-Book-of-Hours-Verso-cropped.png 344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-from-the-office-of-the-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Leaf from the Office of the Dead<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Part of the Office of the Dead from a 15th-century Book of Hours made in Flanders (perhaps at Bruges or Antwerp) circa 1470<br \/>\n\u2014 with a Personal Reflection on the Subject, occasioned by the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/people\/renowned-academic-autority-on-the-book-of-kells-1.2560868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer O&#8217;Reilly<\/a> (1943\u20132016).<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-in-mat-rotated-cropped-at-200-dpi-really.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6690 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-in-mat-rotated-cropped-at-200-dpi-really-300x265.png\" alt=\"Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-in-mat-rotated-cropped-at-200-dpi-really-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-in-mat-rotated-cropped-at-200-dpi-really-150x133.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-in-mat-rotated-cropped-at-200-dpi-really.png 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/part-leaf-from-a-large-format-lectionary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part-Leaf from a Large-Format Lectionary<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Parts of <em>I Maccabees 10<\/em> and <em>Homily 38 on the Gospels<\/em> by Gregory the Great from a large-format Latin lectionary, probably made in Italy, perhaps Northern Italy, circa 1175, now reduced to the lower part of the leaf, for reuse as a wrapper or binder for unknown materials, and now retrieved as a solitary item.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Big-Leaf-Recto-Textum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6741 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Big-Leaf-Recto-Textum-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"Big Leaf Recto Textum\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Big-Leaf-Recto-Textum-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Big-Leaf-Recto-Textum-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Big-Leaf-Recto-Textum-1024x847.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Big-Leaf-Recto-Textum.jpg 1047w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/three-leaves-from-a-latin-religious-pocket-handbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three Leaves from a Latin Religious Pocket Handbook<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>3 Non-Continuous Leaves from a 14th-Century Handbook of Texts for Religious &amp; Liturgical Practice including parts of Psalm 77 (78 ) and Eadmer&#8217;s <em>Tractatus de Conceptione Beatae Mariae.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/574-6r-top.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6302\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/574-6r-top-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"Folio 6 recto, with the top lines of the double columns carrying parts of the text of the Vulgate Psalm, with alternately colored initials beginning the verses, which run together in long lines. Reproduced by permisison.\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/574-6r-top-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/574-6r-top-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/574-6r-top.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/written-in-the-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Written in the Stars<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A pair of continuous leaves from the end of a Roman Breviary, with lections from Patristic sermons by Leo the Great, Gregory the Great, and Augustine of Hippo about the Visit of the 3 Magi to the Christ Child and the r\u00f4le of the Star(s), in a learned denial of the powers of astrology.\u00a0 Perhaps from the same collection at B\u00fcdingen as the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/vellum-bifolium-from-augustines-homilies-on-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vellum Bifolium from Augustine&#8217;s <em>Homilies on John<\/em><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/selbold-cartulary-fragments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selbold Cartulary Fragments<\/a>?<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/597-Fol-I-rb-top-square-for-feature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6900\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/597-Fol-I-rb-top-square-for-feature.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of top of Folio Irb of Breviary fragment, with the first in the set of Lections from Sermon 199 on the Epiphany by Augustine of Hippo. Reproduced by permission.\" width=\"200\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/597-Fol-I-rb-top-square-for-feature.jpg 200w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/597-Fol-I-rb-top-square-for-feature-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/spoonful-of-sugar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spoonful of Sugar<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A bifolium from a Latin treatise on medical substances from an unknown center, reused as the cover for a thick book bound with wooden boards and subsequently retrieved, with the loss of most of its contextual context \u2014 but perhaps now recoverable in part with wider awareness of this solitary survival.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/696-cropped-to-G-and-rubric.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6836\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/696-cropped-to-G-and-rubric-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Detail with Initial G of Folio Ivb of Bifolium from a Latin Medicinal Treatise reused formerly as the cover of a binding for some other text, unknown. Reproduced by permission\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/696-cropped-to-G-and-rubric-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/696-cropped-to-G-and-rubric-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/696-cropped-to-G-and-rubric.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/its-a-wrap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It&#8217;s a Wrap<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A decorated and annotated leaf from a large-format copy of the <em>Novels<\/em> of Justinian&#8217;s Code, made almost certainly at Bologna (or Padua) circa 1260\u20131280, found reuse as a wrapper, pasted and folded, with added tie, for other stuff (now lost).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5564 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded-225x300.png\" alt=\"P9306939 Justinian wrapper initial I branded\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded-113x150.png 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded-768x1024.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/a-reused-part-leaf-from-bedes-homilies-on-the-gospels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Reused Part-Leaf from Bede&#8217;s <em>Homilies on the Gospels<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>A vellum part-leaf from a 14th-century large-format Latin copy of Bede&#8217;s <em>Gospel Homilies<\/em> (and perhaps other texts) in double columns, perhaps made in France, found reuse as part of a cover apparently for a modern land ledger (now lost) and then retrieval as a scrap on its own for sale from France.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/asdcv1-cropped-to-leaf-improved.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8782 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/asdcv1-cropped-to-leaf-improved-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Recto of the Part-Leaf from Bede's Homily on the Gospels for Holy Saturday (Mark 7:31-37).\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/asdcv1-cropped-to-leaf-improved-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/asdcv1-cropped-to-leaf-improved-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/asdcv1-cropped-to-leaf-improved.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/a-leaf-from-gregorys-dialogues-reused-to-bind-euthymius\/? target=\">A Leaf from Gregory&#8217;s <em>Dialogues<\/em> Reused to Bind Euthymius<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A leaf from the <em>Dialogues<\/em> of Pope Gregory the Great (Book III.7), copied probably in Germany circa 1175, and reused as the cover for the binding of a copy (now lost) of Euthymius Zigabenus&#8217;s <em>Commentary on the Psalms.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9134\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DSC_1646-Greg-Dial-wrapper-verso-at-180-dpi.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9134\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9134 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DSC_1646-Greg-Dial-wrapper-verso-at-180-dpi-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1646 Greg Dial wrapper verso at 180 dpi\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DSC_1646-Greg-Dial-wrapper-verso-at-180-dpi-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DSC_1646-Greg-Dial-wrapper-verso-at-180-dpi-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DSC_1646-Greg-Dial-wrapper-verso-at-180-dpi-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DSC_1646-Greg-Dial-wrapper-verso-at-180-dpi.jpg 1477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handlist 3, Verso<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/another-witness-to-cistercian-statutes-of-1257\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another Witness to the Cistercian Statutes of 1257<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Part-Leaf, now on its own, carries parts of the Chapter <em>De Conversis<\/em> (&#8220;On the Lay Brothers&#8221;) from <em>Distinctio<\/em> (&#8220;Section&#8221;) XIV (out of XV in total) in the Codification of 1257 of Statutes for the Cistercian Order.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cisterc-v-initials.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9279 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cisterc-v-initials-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"Verso: Detail. Fragment from a Copy of the Cistercian Statutes of 1257-1258. Reproduced by permission.\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cisterc-v-initials-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cisterc-v-initials-121x150.jpg 121w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cisterc-v-initials.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/a-12th-century-fragment-of-anselms-cur-deus-homo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 12th-Century Fragment of Anselm&#8217;s <em>Cur Deus Homo<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A fragmentary vellum leaf from chapters close to the end of Anselm&#8217;s theological\u2013philosophical masterwork &#8220;Why God Became a Man&#8221; has surfaced in France, removed from its former use as the cover or wrapper, with flap closure, for some now-lost materials, presumably a book or notebook on paper.\u00a0 This fragment joins the select corpus of early manuscript witnesses to the text.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9506\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/verso-1-lower-right.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9506\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9506 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/verso-1-lower-right-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"Verso of the Leaf and Interior of the Binding, Detail: Lower Right-Hand Corner, with the Mitered Flap Unfolde\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/verso-1-lower-right-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/verso-1-lower-right-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/verso-1-lower-right.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Verso of the Leaf and Interior of the Binding, Detail: Lower Right-Hand Corner, with the Mitered Flap Unfolded.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-part-leaf-from-the-life-of-saint-blaise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Part-Leaf from &#8216;The Life of Saint Blaise&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A fragmentary leaf from a 12th-century manuscript containing, or partly containing, one or more saints&#8217; lives intended for reading aloud survives its reuse as a limp-vellum cover for an 18th-century paper notebook comprising a register of receipts in French \u2014 perhaps a clue for its earlier provenance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4719\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4719\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4719 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/recto-col-a-in-Blaise-344-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Recto of Part-Leaf from the Passio Sancti Blasii in a private collection.\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/recto-col-a-in-Blaise-344-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/recto-col-a-in-Blaise-344-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/recto-col-a-in-Blaise-344-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/recto-col-a-in-Blaise-344.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recto of Part-Leaf from the Passio Sancti Blasii in a private collection.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/vellum-bifolium-from-augustines-homilies-on-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vellum Bifolium from Augustine&#8217;s <em>Homilies on John<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A newly acquired fragment of a vellum bifolium, recovered from its intermediary state as a cover for some other textual material apparently at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B%C3%BCdingen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B\u00fcdingen<\/a>, in Hesse, Germany, comes from a 12th-century large-format copy in double columns of the Sermons on the Gospels of John by Augustine of Hippo.\u00a0 Probably from the same collection at B\u00fcdingen as the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/selbold-cartulary-fragments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selbold Cartulary Fragments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11252 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180513_134342-Inside-of-the-Homily-Bifolium-Folio-IIr-title-and-initial-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"Augustine Homilies Bifolium Folio IIr detail with title and initial for Sermon XCVI. Private Collection, reproduced by permission. Photograph by Mildred Budny.\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180513_134342-Inside-of-the-Homily-Bifolium-Folio-IIr-title-and-initial-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180513_134342-Inside-of-the-Homily-Bifolium-Folio-IIr-title-and-initial-150x142.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180513_134342-Inside-of-the-Homily-Bifolium-Folio-IIr-title-and-initial.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/sanskrit-and-prakrit-manuscripts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We showcase a selection of fragments from palm-leaf and paper manuscripts in a single private collection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11786 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/577-cropped-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Paper Leaf in Sanskrit with an Ornate Frame for the 4-Line Text. Gold-framed rectangular green border with frieze-like floral designs in dark green pigment. Private Collection. Photography by Mildred Budny.\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/577-cropped-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/577-cropped-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/577-cropped-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/577-cropped.jpg 916w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-penitent-king-david-from-a-book-of-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Penitent King David from a Book of Hours<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A detached leaf, framed behind glass, with a frontispiece illustration of King David, with discarded crown and lyre, for the opening of Psalm 4 or 37 (38) in the Vulgate Latin version.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12280\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12280\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12280 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-5-David-Leaf-through-glass-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"J. S. Wagner Collection. Detached Manuscript Detached Leaf with the Opening in Latin of the Penitent Psalm 37 (38) and its Illustration of King David.\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-5-David-Leaf-through-glass-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-5-David-Leaf-through-glass-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-5-David-Leaf-through-glass-768x1006.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-5-David-Leaf-through-glass-781x1024.jpg 781w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. S. Wagner Collection. Detached Manuscript Leaf.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-from-prime-in-a-large-format-latin-breviary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Leaf from Prime in a Large-Format Latin Breviary<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A detached leaf bearing the modern number &#8220;4&#8221; on its recto presents parts of the service for the Hour of Prime in a former manuscript, with script and decoration indicating an origin probably in Spain in the 16th or 17th century.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12361\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12361\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12361 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Wagner-Image-7-rotated-cropped-Initial-C-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"J. S. Wagner Collection. Leaf from from Prime in a Latin manuscript Breviary. Leaf &quot;4&quot; Recto, detail. The opening of Psalm 117 (118) in the Vulgate Version. with a framed initial C for Confitimini, decorated wih scrolling foliate ornament.\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Wagner-Image-7-rotated-cropped-Initial-C-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Wagner-Image-7-rotated-cropped-Initial-C-150x127.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Wagner-Image-7-rotated-cropped-Initial-C-768x650.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Wagner-Image-7-rotated-cropped-Initial-C-1024x867.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Wagner-Image-7-rotated-cropped-Initial-C.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. S. Wagner Collection. Leaf &#8220;4&#8221; Recto, detail. The opening of Psalm 117 (118) in the Vulgate Version, with a framed initial C for &#8216;Confitimini&#8217;.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-pearly-gateway-a-scrap-from-a-latin-missal-or-breviary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pearly Gateway:<br \/>\nA Scrap from a Latin Missal or Breviary<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A scrap of 7 lines from a vellum leaf of a Latin Missal or Breviary in Gothic script, now in a private collection, reveals its former reuse as part of a binding for some other material.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13144 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Margaritas-fragment-back-side-1-161x300.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, &quot;Margaritas&quot; fragment back side\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Margaritas-fragment-back-side-1-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Margaritas-fragment-back-side-1-81x150.jpg 81w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Margaritas-fragment-back-side-1-768x1428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Margaritas-fragment-back-side-1-551x1024.jpg 551w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Margaritas-fragment-back-side-1.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/simurgh-and-zal-from-a-persian-shahnameh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simurgh and Zal from a Persian <em>Shahnameh<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A detached leaf from a Persian <em>Shahnameh<\/em>, perhaps 19th-century, includes an illustration depicting Simurgh and the adult Z\u0101l, both poised in mid-flight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13270 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/309-Persian-fragment-from-a-Shahnameh-with-Simurgh-and-Zal-closer-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, Leaf from a Persian Shanameh. Simurgh and Zal.\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/309-Persian-fragment-from-a-Shahnameh-with-Simurgh-and-Zal-closer-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/309-Persian-fragment-from-a-Shahnameh-with-Simurgh-and-Zal-closer-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/309-Persian-fragment-from-a-Shahnameh-with-Simurgh-and-Zal-closer.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/selbold-cartulary-fragments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selbold Cartulary Fragments<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A fragment of 3 leaves of a late-medieval copy on paper from a Cartulary, <em>Liber<\/em>, or <em>Diplomatorium<\/em> of the Rights and Privileges of <em>Kloster Selbold<\/em> in Hessen, Germany, deserves consideration as a witness to the complex and partly fragmented transmission of the documentary history of that center, including the several known copies of its Cartulary made or augmented at various dates, medieval and later.\u00a0 Probably from the same collection at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B%C3%BCdingen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B\u00fcdingen<\/a>, in Hesse, as<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13426\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13426\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13426 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-fol-3v-Frederick-for-Selbold-3-May-1236-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"verso upper portion. Text 7: Frederick II, May 1236.\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-fol-3v-Frederick-for-Selbold-3-May-1236-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-fol-3v-Frederick-for-Selbold-3-May-1236-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-fol-3v-Frederick-for-Selbold-3-May-1236-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-fol-3v-Frederick-for-Selbold-3-May-1236.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selbold Cartulary Fragment folio &#8220;3&#8221; verso upper portion. Text 7: Frederick II, May 1236.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/fragments-of-a-castle-capbreu-from-catalonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fragments of a Castle &#8216;Capbreu&#8217; from Catalonia<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Fragments on paper from a late-medieval &#8216;Capbreu&#8217; (or Terrier) in Latin and Catalan, from Castellv\u00ed in Barcelona, are examined in their context. It appears that their context includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/latin-document-of-1437-on-vellum-from-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin Document of 1437 on Vellum from Barcelona<\/a> (above), which now calls for re-examination as the former cover for that book.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13926\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13926\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13926 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Spanish-Castle-Cartulary-folded-sheet-top-right-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, Castle Cartulary Fragment, Inserted Folded Sheet, Opened: Top Righ\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Spanish-Castle-Cartulary-folded-sheet-top-right-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Spanish-Castle-Cartulary-folded-sheet-top-right-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Spanish-Castle-Cartulary-folded-sheet-top-right.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Castle Cartulary Fragment, Inserted Folded Sheet, Opened: Top Right.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/carolingian-fragment-from-gregorys-homily-in-evangelia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carolingian Fragment from Gregory&#8217;s &#8220;Homiliae in Evangelia&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Hitherto unknown fragments of a reused vellum bifolium from the <em>Homiliae in Evangelia<\/em> in Latin by Gregory the Great are reproduced, described, and analyzed, showing that they reveal a telling witness to the text, as Gregory&#8217;s revisions unfolded.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11228\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11228\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11228 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pica251-Carolingian-bifolium-recto-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, Bifolium of a Carolingian Copy of the Homilies on the Gospels by Gregory the Great. Photograph reproduced by permission.\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pica251-Carolingian-bifolium-recto-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pica251-Carolingian-bifolium-recto-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pica251-Carolingian-bifolium-recto-760x1024.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Bifolium of a Carolingian Copy of the Homilies on the Gospels by Gregory the Great. Photograph reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/an-illustrated-leaf-from-the-shahnameh-with-a-russian-watermark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Illustrated Leaf from the Shahnameh with a Russian Watermark<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A detached leaf from an illustrated Persian manuscript of the <em>Shahnemeh<\/em> (Humai and Darab) has a Russian watermark, on &#8220;official\u201d paper with a dated watermark \u2013 in this case, either (18x)1 or (18)1x, with a script <em>M<\/em> from the maker&#8217;s initials \u2014 as a security feature.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15811\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15811\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15811 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/picture3-Text-side-top-R-backlit-watermark-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/picture3-Text-side-top-R-backlit-watermark-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/picture3-Text-side-top-R-backlit-watermark-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/picture3-Text-side-top-R-backlit-watermark-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/picture3-Text-side-top-R-backlit-watermark-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/picture3-Text-side-top-R-backlit-watermark.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke&#8217;s Collection, Persian Leaf with Shahnameh volume 5, text side of the leaf backlit, with detail of watermark. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-pages-from-a-roman-breviary-in-gothic-script\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Pages from a Roman Breviary in Gothic Script<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Two separate leaves, now in frames, in a Private Collection contain parts of a Latin <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Breviary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breviary for Roman Use<\/a>, that is, the Church of Rome, or <em>Breviarum Romanum<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17317\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17317\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17317 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-780x1024.jpg 780w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-768x1008.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-1170x1536.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-1560x2048.jpg 1560w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-scaled.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Roman Breviary Leaf in Frame: Page with Part of Vespers for Holy Trinity Sunday. Photography By Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">See further (below):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-bridge-of-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bridge of Signs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-vellum-leaves-from-a-large-format-latin-breviary-in-gothic-script\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Vellum Leaves from a Large-Format Latin Psalter in Gothic Script on Vellum<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Two discontinuous single leaves on vellum from a dismembered late-medieval Latin Breviary in Gothic Script (folios &#8216;130&#8217; and &#8216;137&#8217;) look for their former siblings.<br \/>\n[<em>Update<\/em>:\u00a0 In a comment to the post, Joanne Overty observed:\u00a0 &#8220;Looks like two leaves from a Northern Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Choirbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">choir book<\/a> (probably from the psalter). Mid 15th c.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15910\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15910\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15910 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7378-MS-1-Fol-130r-initial-B-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7378-MS-1-Fol-130r-initial-B-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7378-MS-1-Fol-130r-initial-B-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7378-MS-1-Fol-130r-initial-B-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7378-MS-1-Fol-130r-initial-B-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7378-MS-1-Fol-130r-initial-B-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7378-MS-1-Fol-130r-initial-B-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, MS 1, Fol. 130r, initials B and R. Photography Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/fragments-from-a-book-of-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fragments from a Book of Hours<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Fragments from a Book of Hours Looking for their Identity&#8221; invite detective work to search for other surviving leaves from the same book. In the spirit of Crowd-Sourcing which generate our series of RGME Workshops on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/rgme-workshops-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts-etc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.&#8221;<\/a> (begun in 2024), for the quest we share a pair of fragments from a single leaf with decorated initials and foliate border decoration.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20492\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20492\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20492 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-292x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-998x1024.png 998w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-146x150.png 146w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-768x788.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi.png 1464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Fragmentary Leaf from a Book of Hours. Verso, with two pieces aligned in their former original position. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Manuscript Fragments at the DRAGEN Lab (Parts 1 &amp; 2)<\/h2>\n<p>As a courtesy, in anticipation of a hosted RGME Colloquium on Fragments in 2025 at the University of Waterloo (see <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-at-the-university-of-waterloo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium at the University of Waterloo<\/a>) \u2014 before their withdrawal of support for the event made it necessary to turn elsewhere for a host (see <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-on-fragments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments<\/a>) \u2014 we examined, with permission, the photographs of selected medieval manuscript fragments at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dragenlab.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medieval DRAGEN Lab<\/a> (Digital Research Arts for Graphic and Environmental Networks).<\/p>\n<h3>Part 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-latin-kalendar-leaf-for-february-from-northern-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Latin Kalendar Leaf for February from Northern France<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I. A single leaf, perhaps from a Book of Hours, carries the portion for the month of February of the liturgical Kalendar (or Calendar) which would have contained all twelve months, with the lists of days designated for veneration of particular saints or occasions within the cycle of the liturgical year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20092\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20092\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20092 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/February-Calendar-Leaf-recto-top-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/February-Calendar-Leaf-recto-top-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/February-Calendar-Leaf-recto-top-1024x643.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/February-Calendar-Leaf-recto-top-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/February-Calendar-Leaf-recto-top-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/February-Calendar-Leaf-recto-top-1536x964.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/February-Calendar-Leaf-recto-top-2048x1285.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/February-Calendar-Leaf-recto-top-80x50.jpg 80w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/February-Calendar-Leaf-recto-top-598x372.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waterloo, University of Waterloo, DRAGEN Lab, Vellum Leaf from a Book of Hours, Recto, with the Liturgical Kalendar for the Month of February: Top.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Part 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-with-latin-liturgical-chants-at-the-dragen-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Leaf with Latin Liturgical Chants at the DRAGEN Lab<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>II. A single leaf from a liturgical manuscript carries a set of chants in a trimmed single column of six lines of text per page, with square musical notation on four-line staves drawn in red.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20084\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20084\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20084 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-07-18_16-27-26_882-Verso-Non-haberes-Jh-19-11-cropped-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-07-18_16-27-26_882-Verso-Non-haberes-Jh-19-11-cropped-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-07-18_16-27-26_882-Verso-Non-haberes-Jh-19-11-cropped-1024x836.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-07-18_16-27-26_882-Verso-Non-haberes-Jh-19-11-cropped-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-07-18_16-27-26_882-Verso-Non-haberes-Jh-19-11-cropped-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-07-18_16-27-26_882-Verso-Non-haberes-Jh-19-11-cropped-1536x1255.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-07-18_16-27-26_882-Verso-Non-haberes-Jh-19-11-cropped-2048x1673.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waterloo, University of Waterloo, DRAGEN Lab, Vellum Leaf with music and notation for liturgical chants: Verso: Bottom.<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>IV.\u00a0 Dispersed Manuscript Fragments Reassembled, at Least Virtually<\/h1>\n<p>Among them, a variety of manuscripts dispersed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Ege\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto Ege<\/a> (1888\u20131951).\u00a0 We considered them in the order in which they came to us, that is, in which they came to our notice for examination and study, with updates as research unfolded and more discoveries appeared.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-new-leaf-from-otto-ege-manuscript-41\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A New Leaf from \u2018Otto Ege Manuscript 41\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Part of the <em>Dialogues<\/em> of Pope Gregory the Great (Book III.12\u201314) from a 15th-Century Manuscript Plundered in Belgium in World War I<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ege-MS-41-Dialogues-III-13-chapter-initial-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4887 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ege-MS-41-Dialogues-III-13-chapter-initial-detail.jpg\" alt=\"Decorated opening word 'Nuper' of the Dialogues, Book III, Chapter 13, reproduced by permission\" width=\"164\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ege-MS-41-Dialogues-III-13-chapter-initial-detail.jpg 164w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ege-MS-41-Dialogues-III-13-chapter-initial-detail-150x132.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-discoveries-for-otto-ege-manuscript-41\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Discoveries for &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 41&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Further research on manuscripts dispersed by Otto Ege yields discoveries for some, including &#8216;Ege Manuscript 41&#8217; with Gregory&#8217;s &#8216;Dialogues&#8217; and more texts as well.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9447\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1880-Beinecke-Ege-MS-41-in-mount.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9447\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9447 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1880-Beinecke-Ege-MS-41-in-mount-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"Leaf 41 within its Mat with Printed Label in the Family Album (Set Number 3) of Otto Ege's Portfolio of 'Fifty Original Leaves' (FOL). Otto Ege Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Photograph by Mildred Budny.\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1880-Beinecke-Ege-MS-41-in-mount-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1880-Beinecke-Ege-MS-41-in-mount-127x150.jpg 127w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1880-Beinecke-Ege-MS-41-in-mount-865x1024.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leaf 41, plus mat and label, in the Family Album of Otto Ege&#8217;s Portfolio of &#8216;Fifty Original Leaves&#8217;. Otto Ege Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-new-leaf-from-otto-ege-manuscript-61\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A New Leaf from \u2018Otto Ege Manuscript 61\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Part of Ezekiel 10\u201311 from a 32-Line Vulgate Pocket Bible from France<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ezekiel-verso-White-running-title-EZE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5197 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ezekiel-verso-White-running-title-EZE-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Running title for EZE on the verso of the Ezekiel leaf from 'Ege Manuscript 61'. Photography by Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ezekiel-verso-White-running-title-EZE-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ezekiel-verso-White-running-title-EZE-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ezekiel-verso-White-running-title-EZE-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ezekiel-verso-White-running-title-EZE-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-discoveries-for-otto-ege-manuscript-61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Discoveries for &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 61&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Further research locates and identifies more leaves from the Pocket Vulgate Bible of &#8220;1310 A.D.&#8221; from France distributed in fragments by Otto Ege.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9425\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Graduate-Theological-Union-Recto-lines-a1-9-for-feature-image1300..jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9425\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9425 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Graduate-Theological-Union-Recto-lines-a1-9-for-feature-image1300.-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Lines of the Book of Zachariah. Courtesy of Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. Reproduced by permission.\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Graduate-Theological-Union-Recto-lines-a1-9-for-feature-image1300.-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Graduate-Theological-Union-Recto-lines-a1-9-for-feature-image1300.-128x150.jpg 128w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Graduate-Theological-Union-Recto-lines-a1-9-for-feature-image1300..jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opening Lines of the Book of Zachariah. Courtesy of Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-weber-leaf-from-ege-ms-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Weber Leaf from Ege MS 61<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A leaf from Otto Ege MS 61 now in the Collection of Richard Weber comes from part of the Gospel of Mark in its Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21224\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21224\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21224 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9609-Richard-Weber-Ege-61-recto-opening-Mark-6-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9609-Richard-Weber-Ege-61-recto-opening-Mark-6-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9609-Richard-Weber-Ege-61-recto-opening-Mark-6-1024x952.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9609-Richard-Weber-Ege-61-recto-opening-Mark-6-150x139.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9609-Richard-Weber-Ege-61-recto-opening-Mark-6-768x714.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9609-Richard-Weber-Ege-61-recto-opening-Mark-6-1536x1428.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9609-Richard-Weber-Ege-61-recto-opening-Mark-6-2048x1903.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Richard Weber, Leaf from Otto Ege MS 61: Recto. Photograph by Richard Weber.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-new-leaf-from-otto-ege-manuscript-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A New Leaf from \u2018Otto Ege Manuscript 8\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Latin Processional for Palm Sunday for Singing Nuns:\u00a0 A Detached Leaf from &#8216;The Wilton Processional&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5007 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Facing-the-Music-cropped-300x268.png\" alt=\"Penwork extending from a decorated initial extends below the final line of text and ends in a horned animal head which looks into its direction. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Facing-the-Music-cropped-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Facing-the-Music-cropped-150x134.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Facing-the-Music-cropped.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-new-leaf-from-otto-ege-manuscript-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A New Leaf from \u2018Otto Ege Manuscript 14\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Part of the <em>Interpretation of Hebrew Name<\/em>s (<em>Alcath<\/em> \u2013 <em>Ananias<\/em>)<br \/>\nfrom a 50-line Vulgate Lectern Bible with Splendid Decoration and Illustration, as Once Was<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5444 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IHN-ra-top-branded-143x150.png\" alt=\"Top of column a on the recto, with the first glossary entries. Photography by Mildred Budny\" width=\"143\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IHN-ra-top-branded-143x150.png 143w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IHN-ra-top-branded-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IHN-ra-top-branded.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-discoveries-for-otto-ege-manuscript-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Discoveries for &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The deposit of the Ege Family Collection in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library brings to light more remnants from the large-format Lectern Bible<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9322\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1544-Beinecke-New-Acquisitions-Case-with-Ege-MS-14-displayed-cropped-e1481508695663.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9322\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9322 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1544-Beinecke-New-Acquisitions-Case-with-Ege-MS-14-displayed-cropped-e1481508695663-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"New Acquisitions Exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in November 2016: View of Some Parts of &quot;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&quot;.\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1544-Beinecke-New-Acquisitions-Case-with-Ege-MS-14-displayed-cropped-e1481508695663-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1544-Beinecke-New-Acquisitions-Case-with-Ege-MS-14-displayed-cropped-e1481508695663-121x150.jpg 121w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1544-Beinecke-New-Acquisitions-Case-with-Ege-MS-14-displayed-cropped-e1481508695663-829x1024.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;A Long Shot&#8221;. New Acquisitions Exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in November 2016: View of Some Parts of &#8220;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8221;. Photography by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-leaves-from-otto-ege-manuscript-51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Leaves from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 51&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Some more leaves from Ege&#8217;s Erfurt Manuscript of 1365 CE of Aristotle&#8217;s <em>Nichomachean Ethics <\/em>in Latin Translation on Paper can be identified<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/693-bottom-right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7648 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/693-bottom-right-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of Verso of detached leaf from the Nichomachean Ethics in Latin translation, from a manuscript dispersed by Otto Ege and now in a private collection. Reproduced by permission.\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/693-bottom-right-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/693-bottom-right-142x150.jpg 142w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/693-bottom-right.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-parts-of-otto-ege-manuscript-51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Parts of &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 51&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The deposit of the Ege Family Collection in the Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library brings to light more remnants from this composite manuscript, including the carcass of its Volume II, fragments of the binding included.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9325\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1559-Beinecke-Ege-MS-51-Vol-II-front-cover-cropped.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9325\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9325 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1559-Beinecke-Ege-MS-51-Vol-II-front-cover-cropped-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"Otto Ege Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Ege Manuscript 51, Volume II, Front Cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1559-Beinecke-Ege-MS-51-Vol-II-front-cover-cropped-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1559-Beinecke-Ege-MS-51-Vol-II-front-cover-cropped-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1559-Beinecke-Ege-MS-51-Vol-II-front-cover-cropped-1024x1003.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Otto Ege Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Ege Manuscript 51, Volume II, Front Cover. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/updates-for-some-otto-ege-manuscripts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updates for Some &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscripts&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0(Ege MSS 8, 14, 41, and 61)<\/h3>\n<p>While we continue to find more evidence that updates, upsets, revises, and refines the accumulating awareness of Otto Ege&#8217;s dispersed manuscripts, and before we can write up all the discoveries, here is a Summary and Place-Holder.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9390\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9390\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9390 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1858-Beinecke-Ege-MS-6-verso-in-FOL-Family-Album-detail-critter-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Album, Specimen Leaf from 'Ege Manuscript 8', Recto, Detail: Hybrid hooded creature standing ground.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1858-Beinecke-Ege-MS-6-verso-in-FOL-Family-Album-detail-critter-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1858-Beinecke-Ege-MS-6-verso-in-FOL-Family-Album-detail-critter-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1858-Beinecke-Ege-MS-6-verso-in-FOL-Family-Album-detail-critter-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Otto Ege Collection, Family Album, Leaf from &#8216;Ege Manuscript 8&#8217;, Recto, Detail.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/new-testament-leaves-in-old-armenian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Testament Leaves in Old Armenian<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Pair of Leaves Identified, Described, Collated, and Set into the Context of its Manuscript, with a Downloadable Booklet (showcasing the Armenian font for the next version of our multilingual font <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5320\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5320\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5320 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2v-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Folio I v of Armenian New Testament fragment. Acts of the Apostles\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2v-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2v-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2v-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folio I v of Armenian New Testament fragment. Acts of the Apostles<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5613\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArmenianCover_200dpi-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"Cover for the Report on 'Two Detached Manuscript Leaves containing New Testament Texts in Old Armenian' by Leslie J. French for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, with a detail of Leaf I verso, column a lines 10-12, with the opening of Acts 23:12\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArmenianCover_200dpi-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArmenianCover_200dpi-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArmenianCover_200dpi-with-border.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-plot-thickens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Plot Thickens<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A New Leaf Found at the University of Pennsylvania from the \u201cKurdian\/Chicago New Testament <em>Praxapostolos<\/em>[?] in Old Armenian\u201d, as we continue to chase its dispersed fragments (see <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/new-testament-leaves-in-old-armenian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Testament Leaves in Old Armenian<\/a>).\u00a0 That it appears as an extra element within a set of one of Otto Ege&#8217;s Portfolios (<em>Famous Bibles<\/em>), as sold by Dawson&#8217;s Bookshop<em>,<\/em> adds complexity to interconnected networks of dispersal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9332 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3186-UPenn-Armenian-Leaf-Recto-in-Set-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3186-UPenn-Armenian-Leaf-Recto-in-Set-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3186-UPenn-Armenian-Leaf-Recto-in-Set-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3186-UPenn-Armenian-Leaf-Recto-in-Set-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-new-leaf-from-otto-ege-manuscript-214\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A New Leaf from &#8220;Otto Ege Manuscript 214&#8221;?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A detached leaf of text from a 22-Line Prayerbook in Dutch, probably from the Collection of Otto F. Ege.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10832\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10832\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/443-trimmed-cropped-to-verso-1-lower-half-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Lower Half of the Original Verso of a Single Leaf detached from a prayerbook in Dutch made circa 1530, owned and dismembered by Otto F. Ege, with the seller's description in pencil in the lower margin. Image reproduced by permission.\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/443-trimmed-cropped-to-verso-1-lower-half-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/443-trimmed-cropped-to-verso-1-lower-half-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/443-trimmed-cropped-to-verso-1-lower-half.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection. Leaf from a Dutch prayerbook, detail.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-from-otto-ege-manuscript-19-and-eges-workshop-practices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Leaf from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 19&#8217; and Ege&#8217;s Workshop Practices<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A detached leaf from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 19&#8217;, now in the J. S. Wagner Collection, provides the transition from one Old Testament Book to the next, and gives the opportunity to examine Ege&#8217;s habits in mounting and distributing manuscript leaves.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12289\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12289\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12289 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-2-Ege-19-verso-upper-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"Wagner Collection, Leaf from Otto Ege Manuscript 19, verso.\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-2-Ege-19-verso-upper-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-2-Ege-19-verso-upper-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-2-Ege-19-verso-upper-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Wagner-Image-2-Ege-19-verso-upper-1024x560.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wagner Collection, Leaf from Otto Ege Manuscript 19, verso.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/some-leaves-in-set-1-of-eges-fol-portfolio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some Leaves in Set 1 of Otto Ege&#8217;s FOL Portfolio<\/a>\u00a0(Ege MSS 8, 14, 19, and 41)<\/h3>\n<p>The newly discovered Set 1 (of 40 numbered sets) of Otto Ege&#8217;s Portfolio of <em>Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe:\u00a0 XII\u2013XVI Century<\/em> (FOL) allows us to examine its leaves from &#8216;Ege Manuscripts 8, 14, 19, and 41&#8217; (of 50 manuscripts) with varied types of texts, scripts, and styles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13638\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13638\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13638 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-14a-Initial-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Set 1 of Ege's FOL Portfolio, Leaf 14 recto: Lamentations Initial.\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-14a-Initial-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-14a-Initial-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-14a-Initial-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-14a-Initial.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Set 1 of Ege&#8217;s FOL Portfolio, Leaf 14 recto: Lamentations Initial.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/updates-for-otto-ege-manuscript-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updates for &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 19&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>An update for our research on the dispersed fragments of &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 19&#8217; examines its description in the 1936 Sotheby&#8217;s auction catalogue while the volume was still intact.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13562\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13562\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13562 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-19a-top-Deut-1-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"Set 1 of Otto Ege's FOL Portfolio, Leaf 19 recto top.\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-19a-top-Deut-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-19a-top-Deut-1-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-19a-top-Deut-1-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-FOL-19a-top-Deut-1.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Set 1 of Otto Ege&#8217;s FOL Portfolio, Leaf 19 recto top.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/patch-work-in-otto-ege-manuscript-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patch Work in &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Patched repairs for some leaves in &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8217;, a dismembered large-format Vulgate Bible examined in several of our blogposts, redeploy parts from other leaves of the same book, from positions therein now partly identified; these locations augment the list of surviving remnants, which now extend into known parts of leaves, as well as the increasingly recognized full leaves or bifolia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14113\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14113\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14113 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ege-MS-14-Genesis-recto-unspecified-detail-patch-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, Otto Ege Collection, MS 14, Genesis Opening Leaf: Recto, Detail of Patch.\" width=\"232\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ege-MS-14-Genesis-recto-unspecified-detail-patch-closeup.jpg 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ege-MS-14-Genesis-recto-unspecified-detail-patch-closeup-150x136.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, Otto Ege Collection, MS 14, Genesis Opening Leaf: Recto, Detail of Patch.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/otto-eges-portfolio-of-famous-books-and-ege-manuscript-53\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Otto Ege&#8217;s Portfolio of &#8216;Famous Books&#8217; and &#8216;Ege Manuscript 53&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><strong> (Quran\/Koran)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Introducing a newly revealed set of the Portfolio of <em>Famous Books<\/em> in <em>Nine Centuries<\/em> (FBNC) by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Ege\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto Ege<\/a>, we begin with its first Leaf, from a medieval Koran\/Quran on paper.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14706\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14706\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14706 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-Pic-3-Ege-FBNC-Koran-Leaf-Back-Midsection-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, Koran Leaf in Ege's Famous Books in Nine Centuries, Back of Leaf, Detail. Reproduced by permission.\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-Pic-3-Ege-FBNC-Koran-Leaf-Back-Midsection-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-Pic-3-Ege-FBNC-Koran-Leaf-Back-Midsection-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-Pic-3-Ege-FBNC-Koran-Leaf-Back-Midsection-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-Pic-3-Ege-FBNC-Koran-Leaf-Back-Midsection-1024x643.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-Pic-3-Ege-FBNC-Koran-Leaf-Back-Midsection-80x50.jpg 80w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-Pic-3-Ege-FBNC-Koran-Leaf-Back-Midsection-598x372.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Koran Leaf in Ege&#8217;s Famous Books in Nine Centuries, Back of Leaf, Detail. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/otto-eges-aquinas-manuscript-in-humanist-script\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto Ege&#8217;s Aquinas Manuscript in Humanist Script<\/a> (&#8216;Ege Manuscript 40&#8217;)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Part I of III (so far) in a series about this manuscript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newly revealed set of Ege&#8217;s Portfolio of <em>Famous Books<\/em> in <em>Nine Centuries<\/em> (see above) leads us to examine its specimen from a late 15th-century copy in Latin on vellum of the <em>Commentary<\/em> by Thomas Aquinas on the <em>Sentences<\/em> of Peter Lombard, to survey other leaves from the same book (found in other sets of that Portfolio as well as in the <strong>FOL<\/strong> Portfolio as Number 40), and to consider its manuscript context.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14744\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14744\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14744 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0550-Acquinas-Sentences-Leaf-Front-Top-Right-1-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, Ege's FBNC Portfolio, Aquinas Leaf, Recto, Top Right. Reproduced by Permission.\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0550-Acquinas-Sentences-Leaf-Front-Top-Right-1-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0550-Acquinas-Sentences-Leaf-Front-Top-Right-1-150x136.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0550-Acquinas-Sentences-Leaf-Front-Top-Right-1-768x696.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0550-Acquinas-Sentences-Leaf-Front-Top-Right-1.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Ege&#8217;s FBNC Portfolio, Aquinas Leaf, Recto, Top Right. Reproduced by Permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/otto-ege-manuscript-40-part-ii-before-and-after-ege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto Ege Manuscript 40, Part II: Before and After Ege<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Part II of III in a series about this manuscript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examining specimens of Ege Manuscript 40 (Aquinas) leads us to consider the sales catalogues which describe it before and after dismemberment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14719\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14719\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14719 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/spc_ege_000104080_40_003-Stony-Brook-Ege-FOL-40-Aquinas-Label-adjusted-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Otto F. Ege: Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Leaf 40, Printed Label, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/spc_ege_000104080_40_003-Stony-Brook-Ege-FOL-40-Aquinas-Label-adjusted-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/spc_ege_000104080_40_003-Stony-Brook-Ege-FOL-40-Aquinas-Label-adjusted-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/spc_ege_000104080_40_003-Stony-Brook-Ege-FOL-40-Aquinas-Label-adjusted-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/spc_ege_000104080_40_003-Stony-Brook-Ege-FOL-40-Aquinas-Label-adjusted-1024x609.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Otto F. Ege: Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Leaf 40, Printed Label, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/specimens-of-ege-manuscript-40-in-the-ege-family-portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Specimens of &#8216;Ege Manuscript 40&#8217; (Aquinas) in the &#8216;Ege Family Portfolio&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Part III of III in a series about this manuscript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The specimens from the 15th-century Aquinas Manuscript in Humanist Script presented as Leaf 40 in the &#8216;Ege Family Portfolio&#8217; (Set 3) of<em> Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Western Manuscripts<\/em> (<em>FOL<\/em>) contain evidence of the character, ornate decoration, and ownership of the former volume.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>P. S.<\/em>\u00a0 As more discoveries come to light, we prepare another blogpost to join this series on the manuscript, to appear as &#8220;Part IV of III&#8221; . . . ]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14943\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14943\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14943 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_6371-Beinecke-Ege-FOL-MS-40-fol-1r-rop-left-wormhole-included-adjusted-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, Otto Ege Collection, FOL Set 3, MS 40, Specimen 1: folio '1'r, Top Left. Photography Mildred Budny.\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_6371-Beinecke-Ege-FOL-MS-40-fol-1r-rop-left-wormhole-included-adjusted-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_6371-Beinecke-Ege-FOL-MS-40-fol-1r-rop-left-wormhole-included-adjusted-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_6371-Beinecke-Ege-FOL-MS-40-fol-1r-rop-left-wormhole-included-adjusted-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_6371-Beinecke-Ege-FOL-MS-40-fol-1r-rop-left-wormhole-included-adjusted-1024x809.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, Otto Ege Collection, FOL Set 3, MS 40, Specimen 1: folio &#8216;1&#8217;r, Top Left. Photography Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Blogposts about Otto Ege&#8217;s Warburg Missal (Ege MS 22)<\/h2>\n<h3>1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/another-leaf-from-the-warburg-missal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another Leaf from the Warburg Missal<\/a> (&#8220;Otto Ege Manuscript 22&#8221;)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Part I of III (so far) in a series about this manuscript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A detached leaf in the J. S. Wagner Collection from &#8216;Ege Manuscript 22&#8217;, the 14th-century Warburg Missal, presents part of the Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi (Folio CLVI in the Temporal).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14648\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14648\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14648 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7937-Wagner-Ege-22-verso-top-left-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"J. S. Wagner Collection, Ege Manuscript 22, Folio clvi, verso, top.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7937-Wagner-Ege-22-verso-top-left-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7937-Wagner-Ege-22-verso-top-left-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7937-Wagner-Ege-22-verso-top-left.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. S. Wagner Collection, Ege Manuscript 22, Folio clvi, verso, top.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Accompanying this post is the 36-page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/15168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report Booklet<\/a> by Leslie J. French (2021).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15633\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15633\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15633 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MS22_front_cover-1-with-Border-232x300.png\" alt=\"Front Cover for Report by Leslie J. French for Wagner Leaf from Ege MS 22 (2021)\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MS22_front_cover-1-with-Border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MS22_front_cover-1-with-Border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MS22_front_cover-1-with-Border.png 618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front Cover for Report by Leslie J. French for Wagner Leaf from Ege MS 22 (2021)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-weber-leaf-from-the-warburg-missal-otto-ege-manuscript-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Weber Leaf from the Warburg Missal: Otto Ege Manuscript 22<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Part II of III (so far) in a series about this manuscript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We examine an unnumbered leaf from &#8220;The Warburg Missal&#8221; (Otto Ege Manuscript 22) in the Collection of Richard Weber.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17091\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17091\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17091 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Weber-Ege-Leaf-Handlist-22-recto-lower-right-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Weber-Ege-Leaf-Handlist-22-recto-lower-right-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Weber-Ege-Leaf-Handlist-22-recto-lower-right-1024x860.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Weber-Ege-Leaf-Handlist-22-recto-lower-right-150x126.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Weber-Ege-Leaf-Handlist-22-recto-lower-right-768x645.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Weber-Ege-Leaf-Handlist-22-recto-lower-right-1536x1290.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Weber-Ege-Leaf-Handlist-22-recto-lower-right.jpg 1572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Richard Weber, Leaf from &#8216;The Warburg Missal&#8217;, Recto, Detail: Lower Right. Reproduced by Permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-for-saint-stephen-protomartyr-at-princeton-from-otto-eges-warburg-missal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Leaf for Saint Stephen Protomartyr at Princeton from Otto Ege&#8217;s &#8220;Warburg Missal&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Part III of III (so far) in a series about this manuscript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A single leaf from &#8216;Ege Manuscript 22&#8217; (the &#8220;Warburg Missal&#8221;) at Princeton University Library carries most of the Feast for Saint Stephen Protomartyr, with music.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20415\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20415\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20415 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PUL-138-71-from-Ege-22-verso-20231025_114419-cropped-and-upright-top-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PUL-138-71-from-Ege-22-verso-20231025_114419-cropped-and-upright-top-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PUL-138-71-from-Ege-22-verso-20231025_114419-cropped-and-upright-top-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PUL-138-71-from-Ege-22-verso-20231025_114419-cropped-and-upright-top-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PUL-138-71-from-Ege-22-verso-20231025_114419-cropped-and-upright-top-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PUL-138-71-from-Ege-22-verso-20231025_114419-cropped-and-upright-top-1536x1147.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PUL-138-71-from-Ege-22-verso-20231025_114419-cropped-and-upright-top-2048x1529.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Princeton, Princeton University Library, 138.71, verso: top. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>More Blogposts about Otto Ege&#8217;s MS 14 (Vulgate Lectern Bible)<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-in-dallas-from-otto-ege-manuscript-14-lectern-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Leaf in Dallas from &#8216;Otto Ege MS 14&#8217; (Lectern Bible)<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A framed leaf now in the Virginia Lazenby O&#8217;Hara Fine Books Division of the Dallas Public Library, and formerly part of &#8220;Otto Ege&#8217;s Manuscript 14&#8221;, a 14th-century Latin Lectern Bible, is newly revealed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16125\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16125\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16125 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Framed-Ege-MS-14-upper-right-Judges-1-initial-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Framed-Ege-MS-14-upper-right-Judges-1-initial-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Framed-Ege-MS-14-upper-right-Judges-1-initial-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Framed-Ege-MS-14-upper-right-Judges-1-initial.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Lazenby O&#8217;Hara Fine Books Division, Dallas Public Library, Framed Leaf from Ege MS 14, top right. Opening initial for Judges 1:1. P for &#8216;Post&#8217;.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-of-deuteronomy-from-otto-ege-manuscript-14-in-the-rosenbrook-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Leaf of Deuteronomy from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8217; in the Rosenbrook Collection<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Leaf in the Brent Rosenbrook Collection from Deuteronomy in &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8217; joins the virtual reconstruction of the manuscript.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16223\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16223\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16223 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_4796-2-Rosenbrook-Ege-14-Leaf-Verso-top-cropped-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_4796-2-Rosenbrook-Ege-14-Leaf-Verso-top-cropped-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_4796-2-Rosenbrook-Ege-14-Leaf-Verso-top-cropped-1024x598.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_4796-2-Rosenbrook-Ege-14-Leaf-Verso-top-cropped-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_4796-2-Rosenbrook-Ege-14-Leaf-Verso-top-cropped-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_4796-2-Rosenbrook-Ege-14-Leaf-Verso-top-cropped-1536x896.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_4796-2-Rosenbrook-Ege-14-Leaf-Verso-top-cropped-2048x1195.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brent Rosenbrook Collection, Leaf from Ege Manuscript 14, &#8216;Recto&#8217; (original Verso), top.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-old-testament-leaves-from-otto-ege-manuscript-14-at-smith-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Old Testament Leaves from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8217; at Smith College<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Two single leaves from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8217;, a large lectern bible, survive at Smith College from the Books of Exodus and Exekiel.\u00a0 We learned about this leaf thanks to <strong>Hannah Goeselt<\/strong>, who now contributes to this blog as <strong>Guest Blogger<\/strong> (see below).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16592\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16592\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16592 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Goeselt-Smith-College-MS-35-14-recto-IMG_0373-148x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Goeselt-Smith-College-MS-35-14-recto-IMG_0373-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Goeselt-Smith-College-MS-35-14-recto-IMG_0373-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Goeselt-Smith-College-MS-35-14-recto-IMG_0373-1013x1024.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Goeselt-Smith-College-MS-35-14-recto-IMG_0373-768x776.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Goeselt-Smith-College-MS-35-14-recto-IMG_0373.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith College, MS 35-14, recto, detail: Initial for Exodus 26. Photography by Hannah Goeselt.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-ege-leaves-and-two-ege-labels-in-the-collection-of-birgitt-g-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Ege Leaves and Two Ege Labels in the Collection of Brigitt G. Lopez<\/a><br \/>\n(Ege MS 14, MS 20, and MS 54)<\/h3>\n<p>Two single, framed, leaves from &#8220;Otto Ege Manuscripts&#8221;, respectively from &#8220;Ege Manuscript 14&#8221; and &#8220;Ege Manuscript 20&#8221;, retain their Ege Labels, which, as our investigation reveals, pertain respectively to Ege MS 14 and to Ege MS 54; from the latter manuscript, specimens sometimes would be swapped for &#8220;Ege MS 9&#8221; (another small-format Vulgate Bible manuscript) in some of Ege&#8217;s Portfolios.\u00a0 Those interchanges complicate the processes of identification.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16783\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16783\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16783 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/small-page-framed-leveled-cropped-more-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/small-page-framed-leveled-cropped-more-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/small-page-framed-leveled-cropped-more-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/small-page-framed-leveled-cropped-more.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez, Framed Leaf from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 20&#8217;, Front-Facing Page (&#8220;Recto&#8221;).<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/another-leaf-from-a-portable-manuscript-bible-in-the-collection-of-birgitt-g-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another Leaf from a Portable Manuscript Bible in the Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A single leaf in the Collection of Birgit G. Lopez, in double columns of Gothic script in 56 lines, with a modern arabic folio number on the recto and an accompanying London seller&#8217;s label, came from a small-format 13th-century Vulgate Bible manuscript as yet unidentified. We examine its evidence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16868\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16868\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16868 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-Daniel-X-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-Daniel-X-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-Daniel-X-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-Daniel-X.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez, Vulgate Bible Manuscript Leaf purchased in London around 2000: Recto with opening of Daniel Chapter X.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-leaves-from-an-old-armenian-praxapostolos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Leaves from an Old Armenian Praxapostolos<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Following earlier discoveries, we present two newly discovered leaves from the Acts of the Apostles from an Old Armenian Praxapostolos in a Private Collection and in the Collection of Richard Weber.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16884\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16884\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16884 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Richard-Weber-Armenian-Verso-IMG_74351-top-left-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Richard-Weber-Armenian-Verso-IMG_74351-top-left-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Richard-Weber-Armenian-Verso-IMG_74351-top-left-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Richard-Weber-Armenian-Verso-IMG_74351-top-left-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Richard-Weber-Armenian-Verso-IMG_74351-top-left.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Richard Weber. Single Leaf from an Old Armenian Praxapostolos, Verso, Top Left.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-from-otto-ege-manuscript-214-in-the-collection-of-richard-weber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Leaf from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 214&#8217; in the Collection of Robert Weber<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We showcase a single leaf from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 214&#8217; (a 14th-century prayerbook in Dutch) now in the Collection of Richard Weber.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16944\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16944\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16944 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/HL-214-Dutch-Prayerbook-side-1-top-for-initial-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/HL-214-Dutch-Prayerbook-side-1-top-for-initial-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/HL-214-Dutch-Prayerbook-side-1-top-for-initial-1024x923.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/HL-214-Dutch-Prayerbook-side-1-top-for-initial-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/HL-214-Dutch-Prayerbook-side-1-top-for-initial-768x692.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/HL-214-Dutch-Prayerbook-side-1-top-for-initial.jpg 1092w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Weber Collection. Single Leaf from &#8220;Otto Ege Manuscript 214&#8221;? Verso, Top Left. Image reproduced with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-detached-folio-108-with-part-of-vulgate-psalm-118-117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Detached Folio 108 with Part of Vulgate Psalm 118 (117)<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We present a single large-format leaf with part of Vulgate Psalm 118, written in single columns of 14 lines, in the Collection of <strong>Stephen Soderlind<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16972\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16972\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16972 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/285636410_971802523503592_5880137854070661859_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/285636410_971802523503592_5880137854070661859_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/285636410_971802523503592_5880137854070661859_n-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/285636410_971802523503592_5880137854070661859_n.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Stephen Soderlind, Single Leaf in Frame as purchased: Front of Frame. Reproduced by Permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/folio-4-with-latin-blessings-for-holy-water-and-an-exorcism-for-salt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Folio 4 with Latin Blessings for Holy Water and an Exorcism for Salt<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A single leaf (folio 4) with Blessings and an Exorcism or Purification preserves a remnant of a 15th-century Latin manuscript for liturgical performance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16963\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16963\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16963 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Handlist-10-Italian-Missal-4v-initial-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Handlist-10-Italian-Missal-4v-initial-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Handlist-10-Italian-Missal-4v-initial-150x101.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Handlist-10-Italian-Missal-4v-initial-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Handlist-10-Italian-Missal-4v-initial.png 804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Single Leaf from a Latin Missal. Folio 4r, Detail. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/portfolio-93-of-eges-famous-books-in-eight-centuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portfolio 93 of Ege&#8217;s &#8220;Famous Books in Eight Centuries (FBEC)&#8221; in the Collection of Richard Weber<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We showcase Set 93 (out of 110 numbered sets) of Otto Ege&#8217;s Portfolio of &#8220;Famous Books&#8221; in Eight Centuries, with leaves from manuscripts and printed books \u2014 plus surprises.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17203\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17203\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17203 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Richard-Weber-Collection-Famous-Books-in-Eight-Centuries-Portfolio-93-Edition-Label-cropped-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Richard-Weber-Collection-Famous-Books-in-Eight-Centuries-Portfolio-93-Edition-Label-cropped-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Richard-Weber-Collection-Famous-Books-in-Eight-Centuries-Portfolio-93-Edition-Label-cropped-1024x605.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Richard-Weber-Collection-Famous-Books-in-Eight-Centuries-Portfolio-93-Edition-Label-cropped-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Richard-Weber-Collection-Famous-Books-in-Eight-Centuries-Portfolio-93-Edition-Label-cropped-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Richard-Weber-Collection-Famous-Books-in-Eight-Centuries-Portfolio-93-Edition-Label-cropped-1536x908.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Richard-Weber-Collection-Famous-Books-in-Eight-Centuries-Portfolio-93-Edition-Label-cropped-2048x1211.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Weber Collection, Famous Books in Eight Centuries, Portfolio 93, Inside Front Cover, Edition Label with Portfolio Number. Reproduced by Permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>A Collection of Blogposts on<br \/>\nThe Farrell Leaf from the Saint Albans Bible<\/h2>\n<h3>1) <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-latin-vulgate-leaf-of-the-book-of-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Latin Vulgate Leaf of the Book of Numbers in the Collection of Jennah Farrell<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We examine a single leaf from a medieval Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript in the Collection of Jennah Farrell, on loan to the RGME for study and research.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19488\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19488\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19488 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0276_001-Farrell-Leaf-recto-top-180-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0276_001-Farrell-Leaf-recto-top-180-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0276_001-Farrell-Leaf-recto-top-180-1024x395.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0276_001-Farrell-Leaf-recto-top-180-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0276_001-Farrell-Leaf-recto-top-180-768x296.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0276_001-Farrell-Leaf-recto-top-180.jpg 1169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Jennah Farrell, Single Leaf from the Book of Numbers in a Medieval Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript: Recto, top. Photography by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>2) <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/latin-vulgate-bible-leaf-in-the-collection-of-jennah-farrell-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin Vulgate Bible Leaf in the Collection of Jennah Farrell, Part 2: Provenance<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Part 2 on the medieval Latin Bible manuscript leaf in the Farrell Collection reports on the provenance regarding the previous ownership of the leaf, as reconstructed by the owner Jennah Farrell following her purchase of an assembly of abandoned property.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19297\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19297\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19297 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image00006-Jennah-Farrell-Leaf-top-left-Her-Photo-cropped-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image00006-Jennah-Farrell-Leaf-top-left-Her-Photo-cropped-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image00006-Jennah-Farrell-Leaf-top-left-Her-Photo-cropped-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image00006-Jennah-Farrell-Leaf-top-left-Her-Photo-cropped-150x121.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image00006-Jennah-Farrell-Leaf-top-left-Her-Photo-cropped-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image00006-Jennah-Farrell-Leaf-top-left-Her-Photo-cropped-1536x1235.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image00006-Jennah-Farrell-Leaf-top-left-Her-Photo-cropped-2048x1647.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Jennah Farrell, Manuscript Leaf in Mat: top left. Photograph by Jennah Farrrell.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>3) <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-latin-vulgate-bible-leaf-in-the-farrell-collection-part-3-the-full-leaf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Latin Vulgate Bible Leaf in the Farrell Collection, Part 3: The Full Leaf<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>With the manuscript leaf now removed from its modern frame, we display photographs of both sides of the leaf uncropped, showing its full extent at present and revealing the formerly hidden verso.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19490\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19490\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19490 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0283_001-Farrell-Leaf-verso-top-180-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0283_001-Farrell-Leaf-verso-top-180-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0283_001-Farrell-Leaf-verso-top-180-1024x392.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0283_001-Farrell-Leaf-verso-top-180-150x57.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0283_001-Farrell-Leaf-verso-top-180-768x294.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0283_001-Farrell-Leaf-verso-top-180.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medieval Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript: Verso, top. Photography by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>A Collection of Blogposts on<br \/>\nMore Leaves from the Saint Albans Bible<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-weber-leaf-from-the-saint-albans-bible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Weber Leaf from the Saint Albans Bible<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We report the presence of a leaf from the Acts of the Apostles in the Collection of Richard Weber, as introduced at Workshop 4 in our series of <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/rgme-workshops-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts-etc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RGME Workshops on &#8220;The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19952\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19952\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19952 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image0022-Weber-Leaf-St-Albans-Bible-Verso-Top-Detail-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image0022-Weber-Leaf-St-Albans-Bible-Verso-Top-Detail-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image0022-Weber-Leaf-St-Albans-Bible-Verso-Top-Detail-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image0022-Weber-Leaf-St-Albans-Bible-Verso-Top-Detail-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image0022-Weber-Leaf-St-Albans-Bible-Verso-Top-Detail-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image0022-Weber-Leaf-St-Albans-Bible-Verso-Top-Detail-222x160.jpg 222w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image0022-Weber-Leaf-St-Albans-Bible-Verso-Top-Detail.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Richard Weber, Leaf from the Saint Albans Bible, Verso: Top Left. Photograph by Richard Weber.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-with-patchwork-from-the-saint-albans-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Patchwork Leaf from the Saint Albans Bible<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A leaf from the Saint Albans Bible in the Collection of William Voelkle contains part of Psalms, plus figural illustration in the margins, with a patch from the Epistle to James replacing a cut-out of the opening of Psalm 109.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21025\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21025\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21025 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_72551-William-Voelkles-St-Albans-Bible-patch-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_72551-William-Voelkles-St-Albans-Bible-patch-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_72551-William-Voelkles-St-Albans-Bible-patch-1024x901.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_72551-William-Voelkles-St-Albans-Bible-patch-150x132.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_72551-William-Voelkles-St-Albans-Bible-patch-768x676.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_72551-William-Voelkles-St-Albans-Bible-patch.jpg 1131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of William Voelkle, Framed Leaf from the Saint Albans Bible: Recto under glass, Detail with patch. Photograph by William Voelkle.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-leaves-in-the-book-of-numbers-from-the-chudleigh-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Leaves in the Book of Numbers from the Chudleigh Bible<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We examine two leaves which belonged to the Book of Numbers in the Chudleigh Bible, a medium-format Latin Vulgate Bible from Sant-Vaast Abbey circa 1220\u20131230.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20128\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20128\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20128 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0367_001-Weber-Chudleigh-Bible-Leaf-1-recto-mid-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0367_001-Weber-Chudleigh-Bible-Leaf-1-recto-mid-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0367_001-Weber-Chudleigh-Bible-Leaf-1-recto-mid-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0367_001-Weber-Chudleigh-Bible-Leaf-1-recto-mid-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0367_001-Weber-Chudleigh-Bible-Leaf-1-recto-mid-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0367_001-Weber-Chudleigh-Bible-Leaf-1-recto-mid-1536x980.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0367_001-Weber-Chudleigh-Bible-Leaf-1-recto-mid-2048x1306.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0367_001-Weber-Chudleigh-Bible-Leaf-1-recto-mid-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Formerly Collection of Richard Weber, Leaf 1 from the Chudleigh Bible: Recto, Detail. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-leaves-from-the-book-of-numbers-in-the-chudleigh-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Leaves from the Book of Numbers in the Chudleigh Bible<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Four More Leaves from the Chudleigh Bible emerge in the collection of Richard Weber to complete the record of a single quire (Book of Numbers). We admire.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21354\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21354\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21354 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Leaf-39-Verso-lower-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Leaf-39-Verso-lower-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Leaf-39-Verso-lower-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Leaf-39-Verso-lower-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Leaf-39-Verso-lower-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Leaf-39-Verso-lower-1536x1161.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Leaf-39-Verso-lower.jpg 1884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Richard Weber. Chudleigh Bible Leaf 39, verso: lower. Photograph by Richard Weber.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-little-latin-vulgate-bible-manuscript-leaf-in-princeton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Little Latin Vulgate Bible Manuscript Leaf in Princeton<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A recent RGME Workshop at Special Collections of the Princeton University Library, in our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-on-fragments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments<\/a>, brought to light a small-format Latin Bible manuscript leaf on vellum, opening the Book of Isaiah. We explore.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20941\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20941\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20941 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_162135-PUL-Little-Bible-Leaf-Side-1-verso-upright-cropped-top-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_162135-PUL-Little-Bible-Leaf-Side-1-verso-upright-cropped-top-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_162135-PUL-Little-Bible-Leaf-Side-1-verso-upright-cropped-top-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_162135-PUL-Little-Bible-Leaf-Side-1-verso-upright-cropped-top-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_162135-PUL-Little-Bible-Leaf-Side-1-verso-upright-cropped-top-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_162135-PUL-Little-Bible-Leaf-Side-1-verso-upright-cropped-top-1536x875.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_162135-PUL-Little-Bible-Leaf-Side-1-verso-upright-cropped-top.jpg 1951w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Princeton, Princeton University Library, Taylor Collection of Manuscript Leaves, MS 132.23. Single Leaf from a Bible, recto: top. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-sister-leaf-from-a-miniature-latin-vulgate-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Sister Leaf from a Miniature Latin Vulgate Bible<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>After learning about a single Vulgate Bible leaf at Princeton University (see previous blogpost), we introduce a sister leaf apparently from the same manuscript, now in a private collection, from within the Book of Wisdom.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21004\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21004\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21004 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Anew004-47-Line-Bible-Recto-cropped-at-600-dpi-upper-300x246.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Anew004-47-Line-Bible-Recto-cropped-at-600-dpi-upper-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Anew004-47-Line-Bible-Recto-cropped-at-600-dpi-upper-1024x839.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Anew004-47-Line-Bible-Recto-cropped-at-600-dpi-upper-150x123.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Anew004-47-Line-Bible-Recto-cropped-at-600-dpi-upper-768x630.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Anew004-47-Line-Bible-Recto-cropped-at-600-dpi-upper-1536x1259.png 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Anew004-47-Line-Bible-Recto-cropped-at-600-dpi-upper-2048x1679.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Miniature Bible Leaf, recto, top. Photography by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>V. Manuscript Leaves or Bifolia<br \/>\nReused as Covers for Later Materials<br \/>\nand Still <em>In Situ<\/em><\/h1>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-part-leaf-from-the-life-of-saint-blaise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Part-Leaf from &#8216;The Life of Saint Blaise&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A fragmentary leaf from a Latin lectionary found its way forward as a reused limp vellum cover for an 18th-century paper notebook used as a register for receipts in French in the area of Plauzat in the Auvergne.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/344-cropped-to-M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6645\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/344-cropped-to-M-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"344 cropped to M\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/344-cropped-to-M-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/344-cropped-to-M-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/344-cropped-to-M.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-reused-medieval-psalter-bifolium-and-its-french-notebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cover-Up<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A reused medieval bifolium with parts of Psalms 77 (78) and 87 (88), from a medium-format Latin Psalter made in the late 13th or early 14th century, covers a 18th-century paper notebook of receipts in French relating to Dijon and its region<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Recettes-cover-opened-at-200-dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7254 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Recettes-cover-opened-at-200-dpi-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"The front and back covers and the spine of the notebook spread out to show the exposed exterior of the reused medieval bifolium. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Recettes-cover-opened-at-200-dpi-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Recettes-cover-opened-at-200-dpi-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Recettes-cover-opened-at-200-dpi-1024x723.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>:\u00a0 Another post (see above under <strong>Documents<\/strong>) reports on some cut-up and reused written fragments still within the sewing of a binding.<\/p>\n<p>As above:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/vellum-binding-fragments-in-a-parisian-printed-book-of-1598\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vellum Binding Fragments in a Parisian Printed Book of 1538<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strips from a legal document of circa 1510\u20131520 in Middle French form supports or guards for some gatherings in a copy of Henri de Suberville (1598).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13727\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13727\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13727 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-vellum-supports-2-oblong-strip-recto-with-toutes-ses-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"Smeltzer Collection, Henri de Suberville (1598): Vellum Support 1, Flap, Face with Text (Left-Hand Half).\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-vellum-supports-2-oblong-strip-recto-with-toutes-ses-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-vellum-supports-2-oblong-strip-recto-with-toutes-ses-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-vellum-supports-2-oblong-strip-recto-with-toutes-ses-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Smeltzer-vellum-supports-2-oblong-strip-recto-with-toutes-ses-1024x494.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smeltzer Collection, Henri de Suberville (1598): Vellum Support 1, Flap, Face with Text (Left-Hand Half).<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>VI. Manuscripts and Composite Manuscripts<\/h1>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/a-composite-volume-from-le-parc-abbey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">A Composite Volume from Le Parc Abbey<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Budny Handlist 15<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Albertus Magnus&#8221; (AKA Hugh Ripelin) Meets Peter the Venerable in a pair of partly decorated 15th-century Latin manuscripts from Le Parc Abbey in Belgium.\u00a0 Formerly separate, they were bound together in the 17th or 18th century at the abbey and sold along with many of its books in the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>An initial report appeared in a paper for one of our 2016 Conference Sessions, as reported in its Abstract:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/abstracts\/budny-2016-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Double Act:\u00a0 Manuscripts Combining Paper and Parchment&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Part A: &#8220;Albertus Magnus&#8221; AKA Hugh of Ripelin, <span class=\"note-content readmore\"><span class=\"less\"><em><span class=\"italic emph\">Compendium theologicae veritatis<\/span><\/em><span class=\"italic emph\">, comprising a<\/span> widely-read theological manual or textbook. Often attributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albertus_Magnus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albertus Magnus<\/a> (circa 1200 \u2013 1280), but composed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Ripelin_of_Strasburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugh of Ripelin<\/a> of Strasbourg (circa 1205 \u2013 circa 1270), this treatise is set out in seven books on 1) The Nature of God; 2) The Creation; 3) On Sin; 4) The Incarnation; 5) On Grace, Beatitudes and the Sacraments; 6) The Sacraments; and 7) The Last Things.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_9226\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0223-Le-Parc-Abbey-Volume-Front-Endpaper-Verso-and-Folio-1-recto.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9226\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9226 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0223-Le-Parc-Abbey-Volume-Front-Endpaper-Verso-and-Folio-1-recto-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Opening between the Front Flyleaf, Verso, and Folio 1 recto, opening Part A.\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0223-Le-Parc-Abbey-Volume-Front-Endpaper-Verso-and-Folio-1-recto-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0223-Le-Parc-Abbey-Volume-Front-Endpaper-Verso-and-Folio-1-recto-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0223-Le-Parc-Abbey-Volume-Front-Endpaper-Verso-and-Folio-1-recto-1024x726.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opening between the Front Flyleaf, Verso, and Folio 1 recto, opening Part A (&#8220;Albertus Magnus&#8221;).<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Part B: Peter the Venerable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_9169\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0234-Le-Parc-Volume-Part-A-end-Part-B-opening.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9169\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9169 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0234-Le-Parc-Volume-Part-A-end-Part-B-opening-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Le Parc Composite Volume: End of Part A and beginning of Part B\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0234-Le-Parc-Volume-Part-A-end-Part-B-opening-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0234-Le-Parc-Volume-Part-A-end-Part-B-opening-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0234-Le-Parc-Volume-Part-A-end-Part-B-opening-1024x703.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folios 96v &#8211; 97r, closing Part A and opening Part B (Peter the Venerable).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[<em>Update<\/em>: Following the death of the former owner, in whose keeping we were able to study it closely, this volume was disbound and rebound in two volumes in 2023 for resale as two items, with the addition of extraneous material and the loss of the former binding. As of 2025, the former Part B remains unsold, still listed on the vendor&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pirages.com\/pages\/books\/ST19399b-02\/medieval-manuscript-on-paper-and-vellum-peter-the-venerable\/contra-petrobrusianos-hereticos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medieval Manuscript on Paper and Vellum: Peter the Venerable, <em>Contra Petrobusianos Hereticos<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;An Excessively Rare Text about Outrageous 12th Century Heretics, Beautifully Written Out, Codicologically Unusual, and in Fine Condition&#8221;, for sale for $25,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was this part for which, according to the former owner, he had purchased the volume from Quaritch long ago; the cutting from Quaritch&#8217;s catalogue used to stand on the front endleaf facing the opening of Part A (as shown above). Our research on the composite manuscript and our photographs in its former state record evidence now lost.]<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-sinhalese-palm-leaf-book-in-deconstructed-and-reconstructed-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Sinhalese Palm-Leaf Manuscript in Deconstructed and Reconstructed Order<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Part 1 of 2.<\/p>\n<p>A Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscript, now in a Private Collection, represents a chopped and reassembled semblance of its former self, which we begin virtually to reconstruct, with guides for &#8216;deciphering&#8217; their features and requests for help in this quest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15233\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15233\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15233 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/01-leveled-left-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, Sinhalese Palm-Leaf Manuscript, End-Leaf 01, Left.\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/01-leveled-left-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/01-leveled-left-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/01-leveled-left.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Sinhalese Palm-Leaf Manuscript, End-Leaf 01, Left.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-leaves-from-a-deconstructed-sinhalese-palm-leaf-manuscript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Leaves from a Deconstructed Sinhalese Palm-Leaf Manuscript<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Part 2 of 2.<\/p>\n<p>We show more of the half-leaves from the bisected and reassembled Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscript, to aid in the reconstruction and identification of its original character.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15472\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15472\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15472 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/30a-Left-Hand-Half-of-Side-30a-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/30a-Left-Hand-Half-of-Side-30a-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/30a-Left-Hand-Half-of-Side-30a-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/30a-Left-Hand-Half-of-Side-30a.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Sinhalese Palm-Leaf Manuscript, Leaf &#8217;30&#8217;, Side A, Detail (Leaf-Hand-Half). Reproduced by Permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>VII.\u00a0 Early Printed Materials<\/h1>\n<p>In progress:\u00a0 An on-going study of a rare <em>Postilla<\/em>, printed in Lyons in 1523, examines its surviving text-block, which lacks its binding, and some fragments \u2014 discarded and reused leaves from a medieval Latin manuscript and some scraps of printer&#8217;s waste also in Latin \u2014 which came from the boards of both front and back covers (for which they were pasted together).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2758\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2758\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2758 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA097941-St-Andrew-in-Postille-for-Web-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Postilla printed in Lyons in 1527: Woodcut illustration for the Feast of Saint Andrew (20 November).\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA097941-St-Andrew-in-Postille-for-Web-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA097941-St-Andrew-in-Postille-for-Web-127x150.jpg 127w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA097941-St-Andrew-in-Postille-for-Web-870x1024.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Andrew and His Book<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A fore-taste appears on our page for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/watermarks-and-the-history-of-paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watermarks &amp; the History of Paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/carmelite-missal-leaf-of-1509\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carmelite Missal Leaf of 1509<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A detached leaf from the Missal for Use in a Carmelite Monastery, printed by Lucantonio Giunta in Venice on 15 January 1509, preserves part of the Mass for Holy Saturday in Easter Week, including music for the <em>Kyrie<\/em> in square notation on 4-line staves.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14269\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14269\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14269 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Wagner-Printed-R-Middle-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"J. S. Wagner Collection, Single Leaf from a Latin Missal containing part of the Mass for Holy Saturday for use in a Carmelite Monastery, printed in 1509 Lucantonio Giunta in Venice. Recto, detail: Middle Portion. Reproduced by Permission\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Wagner-Printed-R-Middle-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Wagner-Printed-R-Middle-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Wagner-Printed-R-Middle-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Wagner-Printed-R-Middle-1024x552.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. S. Wagner Collection, Leaf from a Latin Missal for Carmelite Use, printed in 1509 Lucantonio Giunta in Venice. Recto, detail: Middle Portion. Reproduced by Permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our study of the leaf also yields a 12-page Report on &#8220;A Process of Discovery&#8221; by our Associate and Font-Designer, Leslie J. French, freely available in download through the post.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14445\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14445\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14445 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Camelite-Booklet-Cover-Page-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"Cover Page for Booklet on &quot;A Detached Printed Leaf containing part of The Mass for Holy Saturday for Carmelite Use&quot; by Leslie J. French (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 2020)\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Camelite-Booklet-Cover-Page-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Camelite-Booklet-Cover-Page-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Camelite-Booklet-Cover-Page-with-border.png 618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camelite Booklet Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>VIII.\u00a0 Books Telling Their Stories<\/h1>\n<p>Here we launch a group of blogposts devoted to the narratives, illustrative cycles, and other signs which express, or make manifest, the stories which they portray in word or image, or which have become inscribed upon their surfaces or within their very &#8216;bones&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these focuses upon a selection of late medieval manuscripts which share cycles of illustration.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/lead-the-people-forward-by-zoey-kambour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Lead the People Forward&#8221; (by Zoey Kambour)<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Lead the People Forward:\u00a0 The Contemporaneity of the Medieval Iberian Haggadah&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a peer-reviewed paper, our Guest Blogger, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zoey-kambour-a098b810b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoey Kambour<\/a> examines visual anachronism in the Exodus illuminations of two celebrated medieval Haggadah manuscripts now in London and Manchester.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16471\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16471\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16471 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fig-4a-Pursuit-by-Egyptians-Rylands-Heb.-MS-6-fol.-18v-300x193.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fig-4a-Pursuit-by-Egyptians-Rylands-Heb.-MS-6-fol.-18v-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fig-4a-Pursuit-by-Egyptians-Rylands-Heb.-MS-6-fol.-18v-1024x660.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fig-4a-Pursuit-by-Egyptians-Rylands-Heb.-MS-6-fol.-18v-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fig-4a-Pursuit-by-Egyptians-Rylands-Heb.-MS-6-fol.-18v-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fig-4a-Pursuit-by-Egyptians-Rylands-Heb.-MS-6-fol.-18v-80x50.png 80w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fig-4a-Pursuit-by-Egyptians-Rylands-Heb.-MS-6-fol.-18v.png 1176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pursuit by the Egyptians. Manchester, John Rylands Library, Rylands Heb. MS 6, fol. 18v, lower. Copyright of the University of Manchester.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-13th-century-pocket-vulgate-bible-at-smith-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 13th-Century Pocket Vulgate Bible at Smith College: The Dimock Bible<\/a> (by Hannah Goeselt)<\/h3>\n<p>(30 October 2023)<\/p>\n<p>Guest Blogger <strong>Hannah Goeselt<\/strong> gives a guided tour of &#8220;The Dimock Bible&#8221;, a 13th-century Pocket Vulgate Bible at Smith College (MRBC MS 240), with decorated and historiated initials, annotations, and the ghost-like impression of an object \u2014 medieval seal or seal matrix perhaps? \u2014 which once was pressed between two facing pages.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17959\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17959\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17959 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/proverbs-dragon-cropped-more-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/proverbs-dragon-cropped-more-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/proverbs-dragon-cropped-more-141x150.jpg 141w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/proverbs-dragon-cropped-more-768x818.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/proverbs-dragon-cropped-more.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith College, MRBC MS 240, fol. 25v. Proverbs Initial with Dragon. Photography by Hannah Goeselt.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>IX.\u00a0 Stories About Books: Points of View<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/to-whom-do-manuscripts-belong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;To Whom Do Manuscripts Belong?&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/independent.academia.edu\/GeorgiParpulov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgi Parpulov<\/a> (May 2024)<\/p>\n<p>Our Associate <a href=\"https:\/\/independent.academia.edu\/GeorgiParpulov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgi Parpulov<\/a> surveys a selection of Greek manuscripts stolen from collections ranging from Eikosiphoinissa Monastery in World War I and the Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos in 1960, to a <em>metochion <\/em>(dependency) of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem from which came the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archimedes_Palimpsest\">Archimedes Palimpsest<\/a>\u2019. In considering the varying patterns for these manuscripts of subsequent ownership, dispersal, and access to scholarly research or otherwise, Georgi ponders questions of access and restitution to former owners.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18973\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18973\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-18973 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/lavraR-cf-Bath2-illustration-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/lavraR-cf-Bath2-illustration-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/lavraR-cf-Bath2-illustration-1024x964.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/lavraR-cf-Bath2-illustration-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/lavraR-cf-Bath2-illustration-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/lavraR-cf-Bath2-illustration.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stray leaf from cod. A 13 of the Lavra on Mount Athos: Recto. Formerly Bath (England), private collection. Present whereabouts uncertain. (Photo: Alexander Saminsky)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/delibovi-on-glassgold-on-boethius-a-blogpost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana Delibovi on Glassgold on Boethius: A Blogpost<\/a> (March 2025)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Manuscript as Creative Undercurrent:<br \/>\nReflections on the Reissue of Glassgold\u2019s \u201cEnglishings\u201d of Poems by Boethius&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/danadelibovi.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana Delibovi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Guest Blogger reflects on the &#8220;Englishings&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/peterglassgold.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Glassgold<\/a> of Boethius&#8217;s Latin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_the_Consolation_of_Philosophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Consolation of Philosophy<\/em><\/a>, as this version stands in the tradition of English translations\/manuscripts. The subtitle for this version carries the subtitle: \u201cTranslated Out of the Original Latin into Diverse Historical Englishings, Diligently Collaged.\u201d The result combines different translations of the masterwork by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boethius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius<\/a> (c. 480 \u2013 524) by, or attributed to, these three figures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_the_Great\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Alfred<\/a> (848\u2013899, ruled 871\u2013899),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geoffrey_Chaucer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoffrey Chaucer<\/a> (died 1400), and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth I<\/a> (1533\u20131603, ruled 1558\u20131603).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>working in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_English\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_English\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_Modern_English\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Modern English<\/a> respectively. Dana Delibovi reflects on those results from her perspective and experience as author and translator.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20039\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20039\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20039\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Folio-2v-of-the-translation-by-Chaucer-300x256.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Folio-2v-of-the-translation-by-Chaucer-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Folio-2v-of-the-translation-by-Chaucer-1024x873.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Folio-2v-of-the-translation-by-Chaucer-150x128.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Folio-2v-of-the-translation-by-Chaucer-768x654.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Folio-2v-of-the-translation-by-Chaucer.png 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru \u2013 The National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 393D, De consolatione Philosophiae, folio 2v, lower portion; c. 1380. Image via Public Domain Mark via https:\/\/viewer.library.wales\/4398051#?xywh=-49%2C699%2C3466%2C2479&amp;cv=18; Accessed February 17, 2025<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>X. Memoirs<\/h1>\n<p>In this group of blogposts, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence respectfully remembers the people in our company who have departed this life. We lament and honor them.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/memorials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memorials<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>by Mildred Budny (December 2014)<\/p>\n<p>In our 2014 Anniversary Year, we recollect with sadness the Associates who have departed from this life during the year, and the Trustees and Associates who have thus departed across the years since our foundation both as an international scholarly society in 1990 and a nonprofit educational corporation in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>An update for this post (May 2021) provides a recollection of our RGME Trustee <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vivien_Law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivien Anne Law<\/a> (1954\u20132002)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8053\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8053\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8053 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Vivien-Law-in-her-Garden-June-1996-Photograph-\u00a9-Mildred-Budny-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Vivien Law in her Garden in Cambridge, England,June 1996 Photograph \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Vivien-Law-in-her-Garden-June-1996-Photograph-\u00a9-Mildred-Budny-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Vivien-Law-in-her-Garden-June-1996-Photograph-\u00a9-Mildred-Budny-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Vivien-Law-in-her-Garden-June-1996-Photograph-\u00a9-Mildred-Budny-1024x749.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Vivien-Law-in-her-Garden-June-1996-Photograph-\u00a9-Mildred-Budny.jpg 1428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivien Law in her Cambridge Garden in June 1996. (Photograph \u00a9 Mildred Budny)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/recollections-for-the-2024-rgme-anniversary-part-1-giles-constable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recollections for the 2024 RGME Anniversary, Part I: Giles Constable<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>For its 2024 Anniversary Year, in a series of blogposts, the RGME reflects on its history and the people who participated in important ways. We start with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giles_Constable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giles Constable<\/a> (1929\u20132021), Honorary Trustee, Colleague, Friend, and Mentor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18962\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18962\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-18962 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4876-Giles-reading-at-the-window-1024x768-cropped-1-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Giles Constable reading in his office at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Photograph by Mildred Budny.\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4876-Giles-reading-at-the-window-1024x768-cropped-1-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4876-Giles-reading-at-the-window-1024x768-cropped-1-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4876-Giles-reading-at-the-window-1024x768-cropped-1.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giles Constable reading in his office at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/patrick-wormald-a-memoir-by-david-ganz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Wormald: A Memoir by David Ganz<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>2024 Anniversary Reflections, Part 2<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We continue the series of <strong>Anniversary Reflections<\/strong> by turning next to an RGME Associate from our early years in the United Kingdom into our move to the United States, until his death two years after his keynote lecture for our co-sponsored Colloquium at the British Museum in 2002.\u00a0 Our Trustee <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ganz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Ganz<\/a> contributes a Memoir for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Wormald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Patrick Wormald<\/a> (1947\u20132004). This Memoir takes the form of an 8-page Booklet which can freely be downloaded as a pdf.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19158\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19158\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19158 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Patrick-Wormald-at-Bucknell-300x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Patrick-Wormald-at-Bucknell-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Patrick-Wormald-at-Bucknell-1024x969.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Patrick-Wormald-at-Bucknell-150x142.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Patrick-Wormald-at-Bucknell-768x727.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Patrick-Wormald-at-Bucknell.png 1222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Wormald at Bucknell, Shropshire, in the late\u00a01980s. Photograph by\u00a0Rosemary Morris.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>XI. The RGME Library &amp; Archives<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-rgme-lending-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The RGME &#8216;Lending Library&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In addition to photographic reproductions from its own or other collections, the RGME &#8216;Lending Library&#8217; occasionally has manuscripts, printed materials, and other original sources on loan for research, teaching, display, publication. We report examples (up to the Year 2024).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8741\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8741\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8741 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/P9306877-Justinian-wrapper-closed-seen-from-front-cropped-more-e1483075817882-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"Justinian Wrapper Closed from Front with Extended Tie.Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny.\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/P9306877-Justinian-wrapper-closed-seen-from-front-cropped-more-e1483075817882-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/P9306877-Justinian-wrapper-closed-seen-from-front-cropped-more-e1483075817882-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/P9306877-Justinian-wrapper-closed-seen-from-front-cropped-more-e1483075817882-1024x845.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a Wrap&#8221;: Folder from Front<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>XII. Projects &amp; Collaborative Studies<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/grant-from-the-gladys-krieble-delmas-foundation-for-rgme-library-and-archives-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for the RGME Library &amp; Archives in 2023<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Gratefully the RGME announces a year-long Grant from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delmas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation<\/a>, through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delmas.org\/programs-for-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Libraries Program<\/a>, for the RGME Library &amp; Archives as a collection. The grant for 2023 works on &#8220;Building the Plan for Recording, Structuring, and Accessing the RGME Library &amp; Archives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-784 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg\" alt=\"Logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (colour version)\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2024-grant-for-between-past-and-future-project-from-the-gladys-krieble-delmas-foundation-research-libraries-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Grant for &#8220;Between Past and Future&#8221; Project from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Research Libraries Program<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Gratefully the RGME announces the award of a year-long Grant from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delmas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation<\/a>, through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delmas.org\/programs-for-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Libraries Program<\/a>, for a 2024 Project &#8220;Between Past and Future&#8221;.\u00a0 Drawing upon fruits of the 2023 Project for our Library &amp; Archives funded by the Foundation, this year&#8217;s grant in our Anniversary Year creates a new Project focused upon building bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vassar College<\/a> and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18705\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18705\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-18705 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1024px-Puente_de_San_Marti\u0301n._Toledo_Spain-Castilla-La-Mancha-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Puente de San Mart\u00edn: Bridge with reflection over the River Targus, Toledo, Spain.\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1024px-Puente_de_San_Marti\u0301n._Toledo_Spain-Castilla-La-Mancha-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1024px-Puente_de_San_Marti\u0301n._Toledo_Spain-Castilla-La-Mancha-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1024px-Puente_de_San_Marti\u0301n._Toledo_Spain-Castilla-La-Mancha-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1024px-Puente_de_San_Marti\u0301n._Toledo_Spain-Castilla-La-Mancha-80x50.jpg 80w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1024px-Puente_de_San_Marti\u0301n._Toledo_Spain-Castilla-La-Mancha.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toledo, Castilla la Mancha, Spain, Puente de San Mart\u00edn, view from the north-west. Constructed in the late 14th century over the River Tagus. Photograph (24 May 2017) by \u0412\u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e\/Volodymyr Vlasenko via Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2024-anniversary-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Anniversary Survey<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The RGME invites responses for our <strong>2024 Anniversary Survey<\/strong> for Participants, to gather feedback and help us guide future activities of the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/a>. In tune with the year&#8217;s Theme of <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bridges-for-our-2024-anniversary-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridges<\/a>, the Survey builds a bridge between the organizational groundwork of the RGME and our audience near and far, as we move toward the future.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19142\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19142\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19142 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/m769.305va-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/m769.305va-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/m769.305va-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/m769.305va.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York, Morgan Library &amp; Museum, MS M.769, fol. 305v, detail: Legend of Pregnancy with Frog (Weltchronik\u00a0or World Chronicle, Regensburg, Germany, 1360). Image \u00a9 Morgan Library, New York, via https:\/\/ica.themorgan.org\/manuscript\/page\/215\/143938<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/rgme-workshops-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts-etc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RGME Workshops on &#8220;The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In 2024, reviving the approach of our early series of events <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/seminars-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;On the Evidence of Manuscripts&#8221;<\/a>, the RGME launched the series of <strong>Workshops<\/strong> dedicated to <strong>\u201cThe Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.\u201d <\/strong>So far taking place online, they are designed to teach and to crowdsource research on original materials, which may be newly discovered and so far unknown.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20492\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20492\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20492 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-292x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-998x1024.png 998w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-146x150.png 146w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi-768x788.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Private-Collection-Anew056-Book-of-Hours-Leaf-Verso-Rejoined-at-180-dpi.png 1464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Fragmentary Leaf from a Book of Hours. Verso, with two pieces aligned in their former original position. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-bridge-of-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bridge of Signs<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As the RGME plans a new series of <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/rgme-workshops-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts-etc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RGME Workshops<\/a> (starting in 2024) to examine manuscripts and other original sources, we reflect on the plan. Also, in a companion Research Booklet called &#8220;The Bridge of Signs&#8221;, we present a case setting out the stages of looking at the pages of two medieval manuscripts, in the next steps of an on-going study first introduced in an earlier blogpost (<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-pages-from-a-roman-breviary-in-gothic-script\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Pages from a Roman Breviary in Gothic Script<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bridging the Gap between Original Source<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>and its Interpretation<br \/>\n<\/strong>Signposts<br \/>\nby the RGME Research Consultant,<br \/>\nLeslie J. French<\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">with a Foreword by the RGME Director and WebEditor,<br \/>\nMildred Budny<\/h5>\n<div id=\"attachment_20649\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20649\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20649 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Holy-Trinity-3-Depiction-Page-3-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Holy-Trinity-3-Depiction-Page-3-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Holy-Trinity-3-Depiction-Page-3-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Holy-Trinity-3-Depiction-Page-3-with-border.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Depiction: Holy Trinity Page.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/medieval-womens-networks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cMedieval Women\u2019s Networks\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A pair of co-sponsored Workshops, co-organized by Kathy Krause and Laura Morreale, took place online in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Medieval Women&#8217;s Networks:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Exploring Tools and Techniques for Digital Analysis<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A Pair of Interactive Public Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>co-organized by<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kathy Krause and Laura Morreale<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>and co-sponsored by the RGME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thursday and Friday 17\u201318 October 2024 (Online)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19114\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19114\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19114 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/british-museum-prose-lancelot-grail-add-ms-10292-fol-149r-st.-omer-or-tournai-1316-300x296.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/british-museum-prose-lancelot-grail-add-ms-10292-fol-149r-st.-omer-or-tournai-1316-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/british-museum-prose-lancelot-grail-add-ms-10292-fol-149r-st.-omer-or-tournai-1316-150x148.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/british-museum-prose-lancelot-grail-add-ms-10292-fol-149r-st.-omer-or-tournai-1316.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London, British Museum, Additional MS 10292, fol. 149r. Prose Lancelot-Grail. Saint Omer or Tournai, 1316. Image \u00a9 The British Library.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-beatus-manuscripts-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Beatus Project<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>For an RGME Session at the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a>, we recollect the process years ago of preparing a proposal for a collaborative study of Beatus Manuscripts by our Director and the late Sabine McCormack:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cThe Methodology of Credulity:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Assessing the Manuscript Witnesses<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>to Beatus of L\u00edebana, <em>On the Apocalypse&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19088\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19088\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19088 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/110807v_0180-0181-Morgan-M.644-fols-222v-223r-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/110807v_0180-0181-Morgan-M.644-fols-222v-223r-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/110807v_0180-0181-Morgan-M.644-fols-222v-223r-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/110807v_0180-0181-Morgan-M.644-fols-222v-223r-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/110807v_0180-0181-Morgan-M.644-fols-222v-223r.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York, Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.644, fol. 222v-223r. Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana, -798. Commentary on the Apocalypse (MS M.644). Spain, San Salvador de T\u00e1bara, ca. 945. Image via https:\/\/www.themorgan.org\/manuscript\/110807.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>XIII. <strong>Friends of the RGME:<br \/>\nMeetings, Competitions &amp; Recipes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/friends-of-the-research-group-on-manuscript-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>By request, the <strong>\u201cFriends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence\u201d<\/strong> was founded in the summer of 2024 as part of our Anniversary Year with theme of <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bridges-for-our-2024-anniversary-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridges<\/a>.\u00a0 There is no charge to join the Friends. As a bridge, this group serves as a gathering point to welcome donors, contributors, volunteers, visitors, and others for special events, activities, previews, and more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19364\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19364\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19364 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Monet-at-Princeton-loris-y-1972-15-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Monet-at-Princeton-loris-y-1972-15-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Monet-at-Princeton-loris-y-1972-15-1024x997.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Monet-at-Princeton-loris-y-1972-15-150x146.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Monet-at-Princeton-loris-y-1972-15-768x748.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Monet-at-Princeton-loris-y-1972-15-1536x1496.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Monet-at-Princeton-loris-y-1972-15.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Princeton, Princeton Art Museum. Claude Monet (1840\u20131926; born Paris, France; died Giverny, France), Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge, 1899. Oil on canvas; 90.5 x 89.7 cm, 129.5 \u00d7 132.1 \u00d7 15.3 cm (frame). From the Collection of William Church Osborn, Class of 1883, trustee of Princeton University (1914-1951), president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1941-1947); given by his family (y1972-15)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/meetings-of-the-friends-of-the-research-group-on-manuscript-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meetings of the Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Meetings of the <strong>RGME Friends<\/strong> welcome our wider community, whether scholars, students, collectors, book-lovers, and others. While our RGME scholarly events (such as Symposia, Workshops, and Episodes for <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-research-group-speaks-the-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Research Group Speaks\u201d<\/a>), our Friends\u2019 Meetings can relax with informal conversation about books and related subjects of interest, wonder, and delight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19659\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19659\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19659 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/claddagh5-300x105.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/claddagh5-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/claddagh5-1024x359.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/claddagh5-150x53.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/claddagh5-768x269.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/claddagh5-1536x538.png 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/claddagh5-2048x718.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logo (2024) of the Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/three-step-program-lemonade-included\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three-Step Program, Lemonade Included<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The first Competition for the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/friends-of-the-research-group-on-manuscript-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends of the RGME<\/a> is Round 1 of entries for Favorite Recipes for <strong>Lemonade<\/strong>, or some similar tasty concoction, as a zestful recipe for Life&#8217;s Lemons.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19015\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19015\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19015 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/P1030323-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/P1030323-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/P1030323-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/P1030323-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/P1030323-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/P1030323.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Chockova, &#8220;Lemon &#8211; fleur et fruit&#8221; (25 November 2007). Image via Wikimedia Commons via CC Elena Chochkova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/favorite-recipes-for-lemonade-etc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Favorite Recipes for Lemonade, Etc.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The First Recipe Competition for the Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence receives its first Entries. Bonus points accrue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19965\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19965\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19965 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250210_125137-Lemon-Recipes-Prizes-wrapped-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250210_125137-Lemon-Recipes-Prizes-wrapped-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250210_125137-Lemon-Recipes-Prizes-wrapped-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250210_125137-Lemon-Recipes-Prizes-wrapped-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250210_125137-Lemon-Recipes-Prizes-wrapped-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250210_125137-Lemon-Recipes-Prizes-wrapped-1536x1162.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250210_125137-Lemon-Recipes-Prizes-wrapped-2048x1549.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prizes for the Favorite Recipes for &#8220;Lemonade, Etc.&#8221; Wrapped and ready to send. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/recipes-starters-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starters&#8217; Orders<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Round 2<\/strong> of our <strong>RGME Friends&#8217; Recipe Competition<\/strong> takes it from the top, with &#8220;Starters&#8221;, ranging from Appetizers and Hors d&#8217;Oeuvres to Canapes and More.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;Starters&#8217; Orders&#8221;: Competition for Favorite Recipes<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Appetizers, Hors d&#8217;Oeuvres,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Canap\u00e9s,\u00a0and Starters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Round 2 of the Competition<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>for the Favorite Recipes of the Friends<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19969\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19969\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19969 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Floris_Claesz._van_Dyck_001-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Floris_Claesz._van_Dyck_001-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Floris_Claesz._van_Dyck_001-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Floris_Claesz._van_Dyck_001-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Floris_Claesz._van_Dyck_001-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Floris_Claesz._van_Dyck_001-1536x987.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Floris_Claesz._van_Dyck_001-2048x1316.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Floris_Claesz._van_Dyck_001-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Still Life with Fruits, Nuts, and Cheese (1613) by Floris Claesz van Dyck (1575\u20131651). By Floris van Dyck &#8211; The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202., Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=150586<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>XIV. For Future Reference<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>[More to come . . .]<\/h3>\n<p>Watch this Space.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5288\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5288\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5288 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-Manus-tue1.png\" alt=\"Detail of an initial M on the verso of the leaf. Photography by Mildred Budny\" width=\"266\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-Manus-tue1.png 266w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-Manus-tue1-150x92.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-Manus-tue1-80x50.png 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Initial M for &#8220;Manus&#8221; (&#8220;Hand&#8221;).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Do you have requests or suggestions for subjects for this blog?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have materials \u2014 manuscripts, fragments, documents, seals, or archival, numismatic, epigraphical, and other specimens \u2014 to show?<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to contribute?\u00a0 Please let us know.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome suggestions and feedback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a>, leave a Comment here, and visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Research-Group-on-Manuscript-Evidence-259443617456668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Series of Blogposts Our blog on Manuscript Studies, begun in 2015, reports and illustrates a variety of manuscripts, fragments, and documents, sometimes with seals included.\u00a0 In keeping with our interests in manuscript and other evidence, some posts consider printed materials, including early printed evidence. Some posts include Booklets downloadable in PDF format.\u00a0 The Booklets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5787,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":147,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21371,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5557\/revisions\/21371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}