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Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts.
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"These fifty manuscript leaves were selected to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence. They have been taken from books written in various European scriptoria by Benedictine, Franciscan, Carthusian, Dominican, and other orders of monks. Many are enriched with handsome borders, initial letters, and line-endings rendered in color, and twenty-give are illuminated with burnished gold or silver. The texts include the Bible, various church service books, the writings of the Church Fathers, and some of the classics.
Changes in book hands from the revived carolingian to the angular and round gothic, the batarde, and humanistic style of writing are illustrated. Tools, materials, and their use and preparation are described, and some methods of dating and allocating the provenance of the book from which the leaf was taken are pointed out on the label attached to each of the leaves.
The leaves were accumulated and selected and all of the accompanying information was prepared by the late Otto F. Ege, Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art and Lecturer on History of the Book at the School of Library Science, Western Reserve University."--from title page caption.
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Rare Book Room owns copy no. 11 of 40 numbered sets; gift of Mr. & Mrs. Franz T. Stone, 1964.
Please note, when viewing the two-page spread: front of leaf displayed on left side, verso displayed on right side.
Changes in book hands from the revived carolingian to the angular and round gothic, the batarde, and humanistic style of writing are illustrated. Tools, materials, and their use and preparation are described, and some methods of dating and allocating the provenance of the book from which the leaf was taken are pointed out on the label attached to each of the leaves.
The leaves were accumulated and selected and all of the accompanying information was prepared by the late Otto F. Ege, Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art and Lecturer on History of the Book at the School of Library Science, Western Reserve University."--from title page caption.
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Rare Book Room owns copy no. 11 of 40 numbered sets; gift of Mr. & Mrs. Franz T. Stone, 1964.
Please note, when viewing the two-page spread: front of leaf displayed on left side, verso displayed on right side.
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Publisher
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
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OttoEgeManuscript
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