{"id":13598,"date":"2020-06-19T00:59:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=13598"},"modified":"2022-11-04T14:11:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:11:54","slug":"some-leaves-in-set-1-of-eges-fol-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/some-leaves-in-set-1-of-eges-fol-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Leaves in Set 1 of Ege’s FOL Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaves from
\n‘Otto Ege Manuscripts 8, 14, 19, and 41’
\nIn a Newly Discovered Portfolio
\nof Fifty Original Leaves<\/em> (“FOL”)
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[Published on 18 June 2020, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n

[Update on 22 January 2021:\u00a0 This set, sold at auction at Christie’s in London on 8 December 2020<\/a>, has been acquired by the Houghton Library<\/a> at Harvard University, as announced by John Overholt<\/a>.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Continuing our series of blogposts (see our Contents List<\/a>) on some manuscripts dismembered and dispersed by Otto F. Ege<\/a> (1888\u20131951) in various Portfolios or by other means, we report on selected leaves which emerge into view in a newly discovered set of the Portfolio of <\/em>Fifty Original Leaves (“FOL”).\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"Set

Set 1 of Ege’s FOL Portfolio, Leaf 14 recto: Initial for Lamentations.<\/p><\/div>\n

Among the numbered sets, the ‘new’ one has the Number 1.\u00a0 This “previously-unknown” set of Ege’s “Fifty Original Leaves” in private hands is reported by our Associate Lisa Fagin Davis in her blog: Manuscript Road Trip: Otto Ege, St. Margaret. and Digital Fragmentology, Part 2<\/a> (June 7, 2020), following her Part 1 describing her own and other scholars’ work \u2014 ours included \u2014 on the FOL manuscripts:\u00a0 Manuscript Road Trip: Fragmentology in the Wild<\/a> (July 14, 2019).
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We thank the owner and Lisa for allowing us to see images of the relevant leaves in the new set, resulting in updates for<\/em> the manuscripts which we have already considered within Ege’s FOL Portfolio.\u00a0 A complete set of the Portfolio contains ‘Ege MSS 1\u201350’, as numbered both by Ege and by Scott Gwara in his book on\u00a0Otto Ege’s Manuscripts<\/a><\/em> (2013).\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Here, augmenting our work already on survivors from some of those Fifty manuscripts in other settings (sets of the FOL Portfolio and elsewhere), we focus on Ege MSS 8, 14, 19, and 41.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>This post contributes to our on-going study of Ege’s manuscripts and other materials, medieval and other, Western and more.\u00a0 <\/em>So far:\u00a0 Ege MSS 8, 14, 41, 51, 56, 61, and 214 (see our Contents List<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

The FOL Portfolio<\/h2>\n

This Portfolio series is one of several Portfolios which Ege devoted to specific titles or genres of books in manuscript and\/or print (such as the Bible in several languages).\u00a0 Our blogposts have examined several of those different Portfolios.\u00a0 Ege gave this one the title of Fifty Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, XII\u2013XVI Century<\/em> [sic<\/em>].\u00a0 Selecting 1 leaf from each of the 50 manuscripts, he set them in a sequence numbered as “1\u201350”.\u00a0 Their source manuscripts, accordingly, are known in Scott Gwara’s Handlist<\/em><\/a> of Ege’s manuscripts as “Ege Manuscripts 1\u201350” \u2014 of at least 1\u2013325, and counting. known to have been owned by Ege.\u00a0 A core study online of the FOL Portfolio, in ege.denison.edu<\/a>, is devoted to the specimens in 12 sets preserved in selected institutions in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

A provisional summary of the contents of this Portfolio and some of its known sets appears online unevenly in The Otto F. Ege Palaeography Portfolio: Towards a Virtual and Interactive Reconstruction of Fifty Dismembered Manuscripts<\/a>.\u00a0 Virtual reconstructions of one and another of the FOL manuscripts continue to emerge, as with FOL Leaf 15, the 14th-century Beauvais Missal<\/a>, expertly reconstructed by Lisa Fagin Davis.<\/p>\n

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Otto Ege Collection, Family Album, Specimen Leaf from ‘Ege Manuscript 8’, Recto.<\/p><\/div>\n

We now update our previous reports of these FOL Manuscripts:<\/p>\n