Professor & Curator of Thompson Special Collections @ The Ohio State University / Rare books & MSS guy / #fragmentology / Puro RGV-Texas, y que
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Check out this quick write-up of a class project I led last term that saw my “Medieval Manuscript Studies” students evaluate, assess, and select 3 medieval codices for addition to our collections @OSULibrary More info to come on these fab codices!
With the support of an anonymous donor, @OhioState students were empowered to select $50,000 in rare manuscripts for University Libraries’ Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Read more about this exciting project at bit.ly/2JJAgZN!
Very pleased that my recent article on the Lima (OH) Public Library's sale of manuscript fragments (sourced from Otto Ege & others) from 1930-1976 is now open access! Have a look if you're interested in #fragmentology #ManuscriptStudies #Provenance
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/…
And here's a direct link to my introductory essay for the larger collection on #MedievalManuscripts in the American Midwest: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/…
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And finally, a link to the freely available contents of the entire collection of ten essays in the latest issue of the journal Manuscript Studies: muse.jhu.edu/issue/50920
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Two lovers gazing at each other while a jilted suitor sulks off to the side? Illustration in the top margin of a 14th-century antiphonal fragment in a private collection in Ohio. #MedievalManuscripts ##ManuscriptFragments #CourtlyLove #Romance
Exciting news for manuscript enthusiasts everywhere! Have a look!
Excited to announce that the new DS Catalog is up and running at search.digital-scriptorium.o…. Data entry from existing member institutions has started and will be continuing through the rest of year. Check it out and let us know what you think!
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Recording of my “virtual tour” of the medieval manuscript exhibition, “Deathless Fragments,” now available. Have a look if you’re interested! Thanks @FragmentariumMS
Can’t make it to Columbus to see our #MedievalManuscript exhibition, “Deathless Fragments”? No worries! Check out this virtual tour presented by the curator, Prof. Eric J. Johnson, for @FragmentariumMS #fragmentology #OhioMSS m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJibGE…
In case any of you have some spare time tomorrow and a curiosity about manuscript fragmentation, perhaps this will interest you…
For those of you unable to make it to Columbus to see our “Deathless Fragments” exhibition in person, check out the “virtual tour” of it scheduled for tomorrow as part of the @FragmentariumMS conference series.
Latest press on my exhibit at my library. This was a good week for the show, with multiple special medievalist visits, from Boston, Cincinnati, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and more! Looking forward to more visitors and tours in the coming weeks…
Nice write-up of our current exhibition on medieval manuscripts, “Deathless Fragments”, courtesy of @OhioStateNews news.osu.edu/rare-medieval-m…
Just landed this lovely Beauvais Missal leaf including text and music for the 25th Sunday after Pentecost. Handy catchwords on verso would seem to place this folio immediately before the leaf at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC @lisafdavis #OttoEge #Fragmentology
Here's the National Gallery of Art's folio, courtesy of @lisafdavis fab Fragmentarium reconstruction of the MS: fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-…
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Just added this fascinating medieval medical #ManuscriptFragment to my library’s collection. It’s likely that this treatise was used in the Middle Ages at the hospital that recycled it as an account book wrapper. Text from Tractate 4 of Serapion’s text. #OhioMSS #fragmentology
New #ManuscriptFragment: Bifolium, c. 1300, from Gerard of Cremona’s translation of Serapion’s 9thC medical treatise, Practica Iohannis Serapionis; text = on kidney stones & their extraction. Recycled in 1586 as account book wrapper for Hôtel-Dieu de Beaufort-en-Vallée, Anjou.
Just added this nice #OttoEge leaf to my library’s collection. OSU now has two folios from this MS (shelfmark: Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.456). #OhioMSS #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts #Psalter
New #OttoEge leaf: Though stained and worn, still a fascinating #ManuscriptFragment from a 13th-century Flemish Psalter (HL 125), w/ text from the Magnificat, Nunc dimittis & Athanasian Creed. Early parchment repair at lower exterior corner is interesting, too. #fragmentology
Lovely clear watermark evidence on this bifolium from an as-yet unidentified medieval dictionary. Watermark = Briquet 12995, MS likely produced in Bavaria, ca.1440-50. 16 bifolia in total, each w/ this mark; once recycled as pasteboard book covers. #Fragmentology #manuscripts
Is it just me, or does the look of the new #Metallica album promos give off distinct #Stryper vibes?
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2 folios from a Mahzor (prayer book) preserving text for the Passover season: Song of Songs 4:13-8:9 and a Piyut (poem) for the 8th day of Passover. Produced in N. France / Germany, 13th-century. #ManuscriptFragments #fragmentology #JewishMSS #BindingFragments
Super-excited to share the newest medieval manuscript I landed for my library: a lovely compendium of medieval world history by Vincent of Beauvais. Never thought I’d get something like this for our students and researchers! So glad it all worked out with generous donor support!
Our newest #MedievalManuscript 2 thick volumes containing Books 1-16 of Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum Historiale, copied at Windesheim Priory of Onze Lieve Vrouw Ten Walle, Elsegem, Belgium. Colophon dates vol. 2 to 1474 and is signed by its scribe, Cornelius de Clinge. Welcome!
Nice little feature on my #ManuscriptFragments exhibit at @OhioState OSU really has a fab collection of #MedievalManuscripts Come visit! There are also some true oddities that we were able to secure via loan from other collectors.
A big thank you to @finebooks for featuring “Deathless Fragments” in their “Current Events & Trends”. Have a look to see a nifty image of one of the most unusual items on display in the exhibit: a MS fragment pasted to an unknown saint’s finger bone: finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…
Very excited to announce that my newest exhibition on medieval manuscript fragments is now open! If you’re in Ohio, come have a look-see! I’ll be giving numerous tours, but the first confirmed will be on 14 April at 4 pm. Other dates TBA
Our latest exhibition, “Deathless Fragments,” is now open, exploring medieval #ManuscriptFragments—from binding fragments to illuminated leaves and the empty guts of broken bindings, w/ particular attention paid to Ohio’s role in the fragmentation of medieval books. Come see!
