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Scholars have studied Otto Ege's dismemberment and sale of manuscript leaves and have attempted to locate the present locations of the leaves of some of those manuscripts. A number of online projects have been started to collect images of these and other manuscript leaves in a virtual reconstruction of the original manuscripts, including ...
Office of the Dead, folios 121v–122r; the manuscript's closing leaves. The Black Hours, MS M.493 (or the Morgan Black Hours) is an illuminated book of hours completed in Bruges between 1460 and 1475. [1] It consists of 121 pages (leaves) with Latin text written in Gothic minuscule script.
The Codex is generally regarded one of the most astonishing products of medieval Italian illumination art. [1] The manuscript is incomplete and dismembered: 27 leaves and cuttings are preserved in three institutions: London, The British Library; The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello. The fragments are ...
In more recent times, in the 1950s and 1960s medieval manuscripts were frequently deliberately divided in order to attract a higher return on resale values and have subsequently become lost to researchers: Fragmentarium hopes to reunite them. Flüeler has estimated that around 90% of extant fragments are currently "lost" in archives. [8]
Each manuscript or fragment is listed as an individual data record. A description includes the basic information. Apart from the centralized registering of the textual contents, the basic codicological data, such as the number and size of the leaves, type of material and rough date of origin of the manuscript is specified, as well as linguistic information as to the language and regional dialect.
The surviving leaves measure at 32.5 × 29.1 cm (12 13/16 × 11 7/16 in.) [4] In full, the manuscript contained over 380 scenes. [4] It was the work of at least six different artists. [ 1 ] The book consists of paintings of events from Hebrew scripture but are given a setting in the customs and costumes of thirteenth-century France ...
Leaf from a Gradual, c, 1450–1475, Italy; New York, Columbia University, Plimpton MS 040A. Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of American libraries with collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts, that is, handwritten books made in the traditions of the world's scribal cultures.
The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages, and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another, but most contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and psalms , often with appropriate ...
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