{"id":14686,"date":"2021-01-27T17:40:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T17:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=14686"},"modified":"2022-07-12T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:20:10","slug":"otto-eges-portfolio-of-famous-books-and-ege-manuscript-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/otto-eges-portfolio-of-famous-books-and-ege-manuscript-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto Ege’s Portfolio of ‘Famous Books’ and ‘Ege Manuscript 53’ (Quran)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ege’s Famous Books<\/em> in Nine Centuries
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A New Leaf from Ege Manuscript 53<\/h1>\n

Qur’an or Koran<\/a> written in Arabic on paper<\/h3>\n

Egypt, dated 1122 CE (500 AH<\/a>), but later:\u00a0 Probably Mamluk<\/a> Dynasty, 14th or 15th Century<\/h3>\n

Circa 391 \u00d7 299 mm <Written area circa 285 \u00d7 220 mm><\/h3>\n

Single column of 15 lines in Arabic<\/h3>\n

Surah 4:163 \u2013 Surah 5:4<\/strong><\/h3>\n

With rubricated titles, textual dividers, and rosettes for verse markers<\/h3>\n
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Private Collection, Koran Leaf in Ege’s Famous Books in Nine Centuries, Back of Leaf, Detail. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n

[Published on 27 January 2021, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Here we begin to showcase a newly revealed set of one of the Portfolios of specimen Leaves from books and manuscripts assembled by Otto F. Ege<\/a> (1888\u20131951).\u00a0 This set presents a selection of specimens of Famous Books<\/em>, in the longer, or deluxe version, of Nine Centuries<\/em>.\u00a0 The shorter version covers Eight Centuries<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The version in Nine Centuries<\/em> was issued in 50 sets, with 40 specimen Leaves extracted from manuscripts and printed books.\u00a0 The shorter version in Eight Centuries<\/em> was issued in 110 sets of 25 Leaves.<\/p>\n

In earlier blogposts, some sets in both versions have come into our view \u2014 mainly on account of the specimens from a 14th-century manuscript in Latin on paper with Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics<\/a> or its commentaries.\u00a0 Our study of that manuscript began with an isolated leaf in a private collection, then moved to examine more of its relatives surviving elsewhere.<\/p>\n