{"id":5072,"date":"2015-08-15T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2022-06-04T23:38:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T23:38:50","slug":"a-new-leaf-from-otto-ege-manuscript-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-new-leaf-from-otto-ege-manuscript-8\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 8’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Processional for Nuns for Palm Sunday<\/h2>\n

Budny Handlist<\/em>, Number 4<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

From a ‘Gradual’
\nProduced in England, circa 1275<\/h4>\n

In our series on \u2018Manuscript Fragments\u2019 within our blog (see its Contents List<\/a>), we continue to examine some leaves dispersed into various collections, both private and public, through the methods of Otto F. Ege. Earlier posts on those leaves considered Lost and Foundlings<\/a>, A New Leaf from \u2018Otto Ege Manuscript 41\u2019<\/a>, and A New Leaf from \u2018Otto Ege Manuscript 61\u2019<\/a>.\u00a0 [Update: See also More Leaves from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 51’<\/a>. Now we focus on a musical leaf for liturgical performance with Singing Nuns on a high holy day.<\/p>\n

[First published on 15 August 2015, with updates.\u00a0 First, we note the lecture on the work of reconstructing the original manuscript by Alison Altstatt:\u00a0Re-membering the Wilton Processional: A Manuscript Lost and Found<\/a>.\u00a0 Wonderful discoveries!\u00a0 We are delighted to learn about them<\/em>.<\/p>\n

More recently, we note the announcement that (after earlier sales from that collection), the residue of manuscript materials in the possession of Otto F. Ege’s family has been purchased by the Beinecke Library<\/a> at Yale University. The transfer encourages the anticipation of more revelations about surviving leaves from the dispersed manuscripts, perhaps also this one.<\/em><\/p>\n

And now, we celebrate the publication of Alison’s ground-breaking article which gathers the remnants of the manuscript and sets them into their historical and codicological context. ‘Re-Membering the Wilton Processional’ is available online via Project Muse<\/a>. Congratulations, Alison! We look forward to learning more, as your explorations continue.<\/em><\/p>\n

More updates! Lisa Fagin Davis reports the discovery of An Otto Ege Treasure Trove in Maine<\/a> and its purchase by Colby College. Her blogpost includes details about the Wilton Processional, with reference notably to Alison’s work of reconstructing it.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

\"Detail<\/a>We unveil another detached leaf, privately owned and previously unknown, from one of the very many manuscripts which Otto F. Ege<\/a> (1888\u20121951) dismembered for dispersal, mostly by sale.\u00a0 In this case, the book figured among his various musical manuscripts, for which Ege displayed a marked preference.\u00a0 Some of its leaves were dispersed individually as specimens in the different sets of his early Portfolio edition of Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe, XII\u2012XVI Century<\/em><\/a>, issued between 1930\u20121950.<\/p>\n

The nature of this Portfolio, its edition, its methods and date-range of assembly, and the present locations of some of its 41 or more sets (counting those both numbered and unnumbered), are described in our recent posts on<\/p>\n