Otto Ege Manuscript Leaves
The Library holds one of the forty portfolios of medieval manuscript leaves compiled by art historian Otto F. Ege in the late 1940s. Assembled from fifty manuscripts in Ege’s personal collection, the portfolios consist of one leaf from each of the fifty original manuscripts. The manuscript leaves were mostly taken from religious texts such as missals, prayer books, breviaries, psalters, and Books of Hours. Ege intended the portfolios to be useful in art education and inspiring to book designers and book artists.
Links of things Mentioned:
Remaking the Book, University of Saskatchewan: wayback.archive-it.org/14753/...
The Flickr digitization project (digitization by Milan Ilnyckyj): www.flickr.com/photos/sindark...
Virtual View of Exhibit “Scattered Pages”: wayback.archive-it.org/14753/...
Find us:
Our Collections: www.masseycollege.ca/collecti...
Link to Library Website: www.masseycollege.ca/library/
Book History Instagram: / book.history
People Mentioned:
Roy Gurney: Roy Gurney was Plant Superintendent at the University of Toronto Press in the 1960s and one of the original “Quadrats”, a group of printers and graphic designers who worked with the printing presses in the Bibliography Room at Massey
Douglas Lochheed: Founding Librarian at Massey College, poet, scholar, and would have been in-library at the time of this 1964 acquisition
Otto F. Ege (1888-1951): Cleveland book collector and art historian who compiled 40 boxes out of 50 manuscripts in the late 1940s.
We have box #17/40
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These beautiful old manuscripts lend themselves very well to video viewing.
@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary
2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you're enjoying them! :)
Very beautiful pages! You have a nice job, working in such an interesting place!
@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! the library is a sacred space :)
Great as always! I would love to see a video of just the Book of Hours leaves and other Book of Hours you may have in the collection and one on the incunable in your collection. Thanks!
@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! That's a great idea! I will definitely make on in a future video.
"Otto was very passionate about teaching... so 'passionate' that he destroyed manuscripts for money, for profit, for a few quid, which MAY have been where his REAL passion lay. Who can say for sure, eh."
I have one of these pages. Theres also a watermark in the center of initials and what appears to be a Crest. And has Otto Eges name on the back. It was tucked behind an old painting. Someone drew on the back of it, what appears to be a portion of a table. It's odd. But it's a very large piece of parchment
@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary
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That is amazing! I love hearing stories about how some MS fragments are found. Thank you for sharing that! Treasure it!
@theredbaron5117
10 күн бұрын
That is the TRUE legacy of Otto Ege i.e. his 'passion for teaching and spreading knowledge' has led to the destruction and desecration of ancient parchments. The man was a money-hungry charlatan and those who celebrate him are doomed to wallow in their ignorance.