New acquisition just in time for today: 1st ed. of the works of St. Patrick, edited by Sir James Ware (1594-1666), London: John Crook, 1656, w/ Patrick's Confessio & Epistola to the soldiers of Coroticus & the canons of the Synodis Patricia and various other synodal decrees Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Excited to introduce the first of our two newest #MedievalManuscript codices at Ohio State: Fantastic mid-15th century pastoral miscellany, complete w/ a dazzling illustration of the Scarlet Beast of the Apocalypse! We're still determining the complete contents of the thick MS, but included are: 1/6

This was not a sign we needed when I first got to Ohio State and started figuring out how to grow our #MedievalManuscripts collection. A fun concern we now deal with...

Superb #ManuscriptFragment at Ohio State: an 11th-century Italian Homiliary, w/ sermon on Luke 5:17-26 on Jesus's miraculous cures, w/ a lovely decorated initial "D". Previously owned by Bernard Rosenthal &, later, Martin Schøyen. #fragmentology Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.472 #MedievalManuscripts

One of my favorite #ManuscriptFragments in Ohio State's collection: bifolium once recycled as a pastedown w/ text from Adam of Aldersbach's Summula Pauperum, ca. 1300, w/ glosses in multiple hands covering topics like menstruation, wives, the status of priests and sacraments ##fragmentology

Just finished teaching about Don Quixote & printing through the centuries, including great stuff from OSU's collections, from our 1605 edition, to modern children's adaptations, 19th- & 20th-century trade ephemera, and one of my favorite items: the 2005 Quechua edition set in the Andes. Fun time!

Another new #ManuscriptFragment just acquired by Ohio State: folio from the late-13th century Peter Lombard MS I posted about earlier, this one w/ text from Bk. IV, Dist. 14-15. I love the informal beastie faces added to descenders at the bottom of the text block. #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts

Newest #ManuscriptFragment at Ohio State: folio, once recycled as a binding fragment, from John of Bologna's Quaestiones de Anima Humana, produced in Italy, 14th century. The leaf once belonged to the famous bibliographer, A. N. L. Munby #fragmentology #MedievalManuscript Spec.Rare.MS.MR.524

Pop-up exhibition of travel and exploration materials at my library to correspond with today's Ohio State Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies symposium on the maritime humanities. From cartography and pilgrimage, to legal statutes, navigational aids, and pirates!

Discovered this in the stacks last week; it was acquired in 1989 but never catalogued: Sebastian Münster's 16thC "Die neuwen inseln...", the first map to show the Americas in their (approximately) true continental forms (& the 1st printed map to show Japan--immediately to the left of North America).

Yet another new #OttoEge #ManuscriptFragment find in a private Ohio collection: leaf from a lectern Bible (HL 44) produced in Germany or Bohemia, 1507; text from IV (II) Kings 11:18-13:14. Ege incorporated sister leaves as MS 44 in his famous 50 Original Leaves portfolio. #fragmentology

Another new Otto Ege #MedievalManuscript find in a private Ohio collection: leaf from an Italian pocket Bible (HL 11), one of the MSS included in the Fifty Original Leaves portfolio. Text = Isaiah 43:13-44:19. #fragmentology #ManuscriptFragment #OttoEge

Inspired by a research request today, here are OSU's 2 folios from the so-called Breviary of Bertrand de Chalençon, Bishop of Rodez from 1457-1495. Later owned by Louis de Rochebaron, Duke of Aumont (1709-82). #ManuscriptFragment #BookHistory #fragmentology #provenance #MedievalManuscripts

New add to Ohio State RBML's collection: #ManuscriptFragment from a late-15th century Rouen Book of Hours w/ text from the end of Matins & opening of Lauds w/ an illumination of the marriage of Mary & Joseph. Nifty bird in the margins, too. #MedievalManuscript #fragmentology Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.509

Nice #ManuscriptFragment find in Ohio: leaf from a ca. 1300 copy of De Judiciis Astrologiae by the 11th-century Tunisian astrologer Haly Abenragel (Abu I-Hasan Ali ibn Abi I-Rijal). The leaf was recycled as a binding support in a later, now unknown, book. #fragmentology #MedievalScience

Yesterday's program on the Luxeuil Prophets #ManuscriptFragment attended by over 45 people--including the leaf's owner--was such a success, and our student presenter, Jessica Crabtree, did such a good job that the fragment's owner donated this early-8th century treasure to Ohio State on the spot!

Just arranged for the acquisition of 3 new #MedievalManuscript codices for Ohio State. Details and images to come in due course, but some key words to whet your appetites: Occitan. Diagrams. Sicily. 7-headed beast of the Apocalypse. Architecture. Classical literature. Can't wait to receive these!

If you're in Columbus today: Join us for a special lecture by OSU grad student Jessica Crabtree, "An 8th-Century Manuscript in Ohio: Examining the Daniel Fragment of the Luxeuil Prophets," focusing on a superb #ManuscriptFragment loaned to us last fall for use in our Manuscript Studies course.

Exciting pair of fols. from a German Choir Psalter produced for use at St. Stephen's Abbey in Würzburg in 1499 by the scribe Mattheus Hartung, w/ 19thC ownership by Leander van Ess & Sir Thomas Phillipps, & later broken by Otto Ege (HL 42). #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts #ManuscriptFragments

First trip across the harbor and nabbed this image of the Vancouver skyline with a lovely, cloud-distorted sun overhead.

Another recent NE Ohio #ManuscriptFragment find: leaf from an illuminated pocket Bible, Paris, ca. 1250, broken by Bruce Ferrini & associates in the early 1980s, this leaf w/ Mark 15:21-16:20 & the prologue text for Luke, w/ a pair of lovely inhabited initials. #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts

Cat loaf is the best loaf. Olive the #pushycat #cats

Leaf from a ca. 1250 English pocket Bible, another #MedievalManuscript broken by Bruce Ferrini in the early-1980s; this fol. w/ text from John 9:36-12:15, complete w/ nifty large hole of split scar tissue and a lengthy provenance w/ known owners back to the 16th century #fragmentology

Another NE Ohio #ManuscriptFragments find: pair of fols. from a ca. 1230-40 English Bible w/ parallel text of Jerome's Latin translations of the Psalms from the Hebrew and Gallican (Greek) versions & textual variants from the Old Latin alongside & from IIII Kings #MedievalManuscripts #fragmentology

4 #MedievalManuscript folios from a 14th-century illuminated English Psalter once owned by Thomas Huckell Lee, Justice of the Peace for the county of Devon (died in 1822), & possibly his father, Matthew(?). Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.392 #ProvenanceHistory #fragmentology #ManuscriptFragments #BookHistory

More NE Ohio fragment finds from last Friday, this time #OttoEge #ManuscriptFragments: loose folios from Fifty Original Leaves from Famous MSS: HLs 3, 14, 25, & 26. With any luck all these will be donated at some point. In the meantime, having photos fills in some gaps #fragmentology #OhioMSS

Closing a week filled with #MedievalManuscripts, from finding #ManuscriptFragments to cataloguing, administering & grading a final exam for the MSS Studies course, securing new MSS from donors, & marking essays, with a return to the wee days of my youth by visiting w/ Quiet Riot. All is well.

As promised yesterday, here are some of the Bruce Ferrini-broken illuminated #ManuscriptFragments that turned up in NE Ohio yesterday: Delft Book of Hours in Dutch, the so-called "St. Alexius Hours", and a 13thC Psalter. #MedievalManuscripts #fragmentology #OhioMSS #IlluminatedManuscripts

Visiting Akron & Cleveland today for a new round of chasing #MedievalManuscripts broken by Bruce Ferrini. Will post pics of some of the many MSS (w/ Otto Ege stuff, too) I turned up in various basements & living rooms soon, but for now here are pics of the last house Ferrini lived in #fragmentology

My cat Olive either loves heat lamps on cold winter nights or thinks she's a Nazgul and worships Sauron. #cats #FelinePerfection #LOTR #MinionOfSauron

Densely annotated copy of the De viris illustribus attributed to Suetonius, printed in Strasbourg by Matthias Schurerius, 1517. Reader-added commentary in margins & interlinear spaces, & on tipped-in scraps of paper, too! With many doodle-faces added in initials #marginalia #BookHistory New at OSU!

Final exam for my MSS Studies course underway, including on-the-spot work with these two #ManuscriptFragments Each student receives a pair of leaves from the same #MedievalManuscripts for comparative script and codicological analysis and assessment. #fragmentology

Ugly #ManuscriptFragment alert!: very large Antiphonal folio cutting pasted to the cover of a metal box designed to look like a large book. MS includes chants and music for Matins on the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin. Recent pick-up for our teaching artifact collection. #fragmentology

In-home visit with a donor today yielded a clutch of new #ManuscriptFragments for my library with more, apparently, to come in a week or so. All in all, it'll be a nice assembly of liturgical & devotional #MedievalManuscripts Lots of good teaching material here! #fragmentology #BindingFragments

5 folios from a copy of Peter Lombard's Sentences, England, ca. 1275. The codex was once owned by Edward Walmsley (17thC), and later by Nell & Charles Wheeler and C. Lindsay Ricketts; broken & dispersed in the early-1980s. Check out Early Modern cipher in the margins of fol. 5! #ManuscriptFragments

New #OttoEge find in private Ohio collection: leaf from HL 2, late-12C Missal from southern Bohemia / northern Austria and possibly (likely?) once in use at Vyšší Brod monastery. Note the scribal guide words for rubrics in the folio's gutter #ManuscriptFragments #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts

Surprising things are tucked in the crannies of medieval manuscripts, such as this irreverent fellow & his sheep lurking in the fold of an English Missal fragment recycled as a flyleaf in RBML’s ca. 1400 copy of William of Pagula’s Oculus Sacerdotis #fragmentology #marginalia #BindingFragments

New #MedievalManuscript @ OSU: central bifolium of a quire from a Humanist copy of Cicero's De Amicitia w/ text from chapters 64-75. Possibly from a MS once owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729-1788) & later Bernard M. Rosenthal (1920-2017). Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.505 #fragmentology #ManuscriptFragment

New at OSU: ca. 1200 English transitional Bible folio reused as a #BindingFragment w/ 17thC signature of James Boraston of Shrewsbury; later owned in 19C by Philip Bliss, asst. librarian at the Bodleian, Sir Thomas Phillipps, E. H. During, & Marvin Colker. II Samuel 15:31-19:9. #MedievalManuscripts

New MS at OSU: Most of a bifolium from an exempla collection, England, ca. 1350, w/ stories of saints Andrew, Menas of Egypt, Sabinus of Piacenza, an unidentified African bishop, & extracts from Gregory the Great, Eusebius, & the Acta Silvestri #fragmentology #BindingFragments #MedievalManuscripts

Just arrived at my library: bifolium from a 14th-century copy of Vergil's Aeneid w/ text from Bk. XI, lines 258-298 & 468-509. Recycled as a #BindingFragments #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts Shelfmark: Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.500

Banner day for #MedievalManuscripts at Ohio State: 8 #ManuscriptFragments and 7 codices, all new additions to our collection, have just arrived. More on each to come, but the batch includes pilgrimage, Classical, pastoral care, chronicle, medical, biblical, and liturgical fare. Fun days ahead!

Pin holes and offsets of multiple pilgrims’ badges once added to the end of this complete calendar from a mid-15th century manuscript Book of Hours from Arras. From a private Ohio collection. #OhioMSS #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts #ManuscriptFragments #Pilgrimage

Nifty 1501 edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger. But for me, the star of the show is the printed book’s manuscript binding: a recycled leaf from a ca. 11th/12th-century copy of Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Job. Lovely hierarchy of script! #fragmentology #ManuscriptFragment #BindingFragment

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

Not my normal manuscript fare, but still a fave item at my library: Sketchbook compiled by one Mrs. Day, a lady from Oxford, on her trip to France in the late 19th century, containing pencil sketches, watercolors, a list of books (perhaps her voyage reading list?) & sundry notes. #WomenWriting

Another recent donation to my library: leaf from an Italian Romanesque monastic copy of St. Augustine’s Tractatus in Iohannem (Tract. XLVII in CCSL vol. 36 ) likely produced in Tuscany ca. 1150, measuring 438 x 310 mm. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.440 #fragmentology #ManuscriptFragments #MedievalManuscripts

Highlights from a recent donation of #ManuscriptFragments & leaves donated to OSU by a Philadelphia-area collector. Details for each & shelfmarks in alt-text for each image (enlarge pics to see) #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts #IlluminatedManuscripts #MedievalArt #OhioMSS

Things to do while not working with #MedievalManuscripts First NHL game in Canada! Vancouver Canucks v. NY Rangers. 2-2 at the first intermission. #FunInCanada

Nifty 1541 edition of Aristotle on natural science w/ a medieval medical binding fragment preserving text drawn from Isaac Israeli ben Solomon’s Book on Fevers. OSU has lots of exciting #BindingFragments #ManuscriptFragment #fragmentology #MedievalMedicine #Aristotle #BookHistory #manuscripts