{"id":15644,"date":"2021-04-25T03:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T03:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=15644"},"modified":"2022-01-11T06:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T06:27:54","slug":"another-leaf-from-the-warburg-missal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/another-leaf-from-the-warburg-missal\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Leaf from the Warburg Missal (‘Ege Manuscript 22’)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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J. S. Wagner Collection, Ege Manuscript 22, Folio clvi, recto, within its frame.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Wagner Leaf<\/h1>\n

from Ege Manuscript 22<\/h1>\n

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“The Warburg Missal”<\/h1>\n

Folio CLVI in the Temporale\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n

with Part of the Mass for Corpus Christi<\/h3>\n

Latin Missal made in Germany circa 1325\nWritten in Gothic Script (Textualis<\/em>)<\/h4>\n

Double columns of 31 lines<\/h4>\n

Circa 360 \u00d7 257 mm < written area circa 289 \u00d7 190 mm ><\/h4>\n

with Rubrications, Inset Initials in Red or Blue,\nand Musical Notation in Hufnagelschrift<\/em><\/a> (“Horseshoe-Nail Notes”)\non 4-Line Staves<\/h4>\nWith thanks to the collector, J. S. Wagner, we examine a newly identified leaf from one of the manuscripts dispersed by Otto F. Ege<\/a> (1888\u20131951). It comes from ‘Ege Manuscript 22’, a Latin Missal<\/a> written in double columns of 30\u201332 lines in Gothic Script<\/a>, with musical notation<\/a>.\n\n

This blogpost by Mildred Budny and the companion Report Booklet<\/a> (2021) by Leslie J. French examine the Leaf, set it in context of its former manuscripts, and re-assess the attribution of the book.<\/p>\n\n

The ‘Ege’ Number comes from the position of this manuscript (and its portions) in Ege’s distribution within one of his Portfolios of specimen leaves forcibly extracted from manuscripts and printed books. The Portfolio in question exhibits Fifty Original Leaves<\/em> (FOL) from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe, XII\u2013XVI Century<\/em>. In this case, Leaf Number 22<\/a>. The numbering system is defined and enshrined in Scott Gwara\u2019s “Handlist” of Otto Ege’s Manuscripts<\/a> (2016).<\/p>\n\n

In the FOL Portfolio, specimens from the manuscript travelled, in their individual windowed mats, in the company of other Ege manuscript leaves. The Wagner Leaf, however, travelled on its own, through a different highway of circulation. It arrived in a glass-fronted ornamental frame. Behind that frame, Ege’s handwritten note on the recto, and the accompanying printed slip (see below), directly establish the Ege connection. All the features of text, script, musical notation, and folio numeration manifest a place within Ege’s Manuscript 22, as the collector readily discerned.<\/p>\n\n

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J. S. Wagner Collection, Leaf from Ege Manuscript 22, verso, bottom right: Ege’s inscription in pencil.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ege Manuscript Leaves and the Wagner Collection<\/h2>\n

Some of our earlier blogposts have considered other manuscripts collected and dispersed by Otto F. Ege in his several Portfolios and in other ways. See our Contents List<\/a>. This is the first time that we consider Ege Manuscript 22<\/a> in detail.<\/p>\n\n

We introduce a single leaf which has entered the J. S. Wagner Collection.<\/p>\n\n

Some materials in the same Collection, in manuscript and early printed form, have already appeared among our blogposts. They include a leaf from another Ege Manuscript, “Ege Manuscript 19”, a 13th-century Vulgate Bible from Italy. Its features include lively animated initials, as here, in the polychrome initial U<\/em> (for Ut<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n

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Opening of the Book of Maccabees in Otto Ege MS 19. Private Collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Wagner Collection and Ege Manuscript Leaves<\/h3>\n

1) Posts in our blog about other materials in the Wagner Collection have considered:\n\n

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J. S. Wagner Collection. Leaf from from Prime in a Latin manuscript Breviary. Leaf “4” Recto, detail.<\/p><\/div>\n