Otto Ege's manuscripts
Subtitle: a study of Ege's manuscript collections, portfolios, and retail trade : with a comprehensive handlist of manuscripts collected or sold
By: Scott Gwara, University of South Carolina
Publisher: De Brailes Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cayce, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780986029417
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Medieval Manuscripts; Collectors and collecting; Booksellers and bookselling; History
Description: A study of the 20th century book dealer who cut up medieval manuscripts and incunabula to sell individual leaves to collectors and in illustrative series. Includes lists of the works he disbound to sell in a series of portfolios illustrating aspects of the history of the book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-92) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: A confounding legacy --; title: An education in the arts --; title: Ege's trade in leaves and portfolios. The Ege collection, 1911-37 ; Launching the Ege brand ; The portfolios ; "Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts" --; title: Ege manuscripts in printed sources. Manuscript books ; Manuscript fragments and cuttings ; Illustrations in Ege's publications and related sources --; title: Otto Ege's "Rogue leaves" --; title: Works cited --; title: Appendices. Appendix I: Original leaves from famous Bibles, nine centuries, "Series A" ; Appendix II: Original leaves from famous Bibles, nine centuries, "Series B" ; Appendix III: Original leaves from famous books, eight centuries ; Appendix IV: Original leaves from famous books, nine centuries ; Appendix V: Fifteen original oriental leaves of six centuries ; Appendix VI: Original leaves illustrating the evolution of black letter type ; Appendix VII: Original leaves illustrating the evolution of Roman type ; Appendix VIII: Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts ; Appendix IX: Collections consulted in the preparation of the handlist ; Appendix X: Handlist of manuscripts and fragments collected or sold by Otto F. Ege --; title: List of illustrations --; title: Illustrations --; title: Indices. Index of manuscripts by current location ; Index of manuscripts by date ; Index of manuscripts by contents ; Index of manuscripts by country or region of origin ; Index of manuscripts by height of folio ; Index of lines-per-page by number of columns ; Index of musical staves by number of lines per staff ; Index of manuscripts by date of acquisition ; Index of prices in 1944, ca. 1952, and 1956 ; Concordance of handlist entries in De Ricci's Census and Ege deposit ; Concordance of Census entries in the handlist and Ege deposit ; General index.