Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Other related names

• Otto F. Ege, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/53781126)

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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

England

Summary

Single folio from a Missal, Use of Sarum. The text opens in the middle of a service for the Wednesday Ember Day following Pentecost (Feria IIII) and the opening of another alternative Ember Day mass, or perhaps the Ember Day service for Friday (Feria VI). The rubric states that on the Ember Days a second great mass should not be sung, according to Sarum Use. That this Ember Day was a great mass is indicated by the designation of copes to be worn by three clerics who should chant the Alleluia. Condition: lightly soiled, a water stain affecting the outside margin of the leaf, and a small natural hole in the parchment; a slight smear to one blue initial.

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Layout

Decoration

Eleven multi-line initials in blue with ornate red penwork of English style. Interiors of the letter forms are infilled with foliate designs, some with oak leaves and acorns. One-line initials alternating red and blue have contrasting penwork. The manuscript is rubricated and identifies SARUM in the phrase, "secundum usum Sarum ecclesie."

Script

Provenance

• This leaf is from a missal that has never been carefully studied, though it is impressively large and has a curious provenance. Around 1932 it belonged to Otto F. Ege, the Cleveland manuscript dealer and "Biblioclast" (De Ricci, Census I. 1940, no. 20). It seems that Ege sold "half" of the Missal to his colleague Alfred Mewett, also a collector of manuscripts (ibid., 1954, no. 9). While Ege obtained the Missal from Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, a nearly identical one said to be from Valencia Cathedral appeared for sale in 1942. This one was said to have 240 folios. Ege's and Mewett's each had about 80 folios. It seems possible that they shared one volume of a two-volume set that originated at Valencia--a curious provenance for a grand English liturgical book. Ege retained one decorated folio for his personal collection, now at the Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA. On the manuscript see S. Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts (Cayce, SC: De Brailes, 2013), pp. 24-25 and illustration, p. 229.
   

Keywords

• 15th century

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