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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 17

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!

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 12

The MS was rebound for Lagerfelt by the Gothenburg bookbinder Otto Schoultz. At some point, red tabs were added to the foredge of many pages to mark textual divisions throughout the codex. So much more work to be done on this lively--and significant--manuscript! 6/6

Spine and front cover of a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

Front cover and fore edge, complete with added red tabs to mark textual divisions, of a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 12

The manuscript has a long & distinguished provenance, with medieval ownership by the Carthusian monastery of St. Barbara in Cologne; the 18th-century rare book dealer Johann Matthias Heberle; Leander van Ess; Sir Thomas Phillipps (his MS 661); dealer Paul Gottschalk; & Adolf Lagerfelt. 5/6

Sir Thomas Phillipps' owner inscription on the front flyleaf of a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 12

Odd additions such as a short list of the Electors of Germany, occasional lines in Middle Low German, the Epistola Luciferi (attr. here to Nicole Oresme, but prob. by Pierre Ceffons), & von Langenstein's letter to Eberhard von Yppelbrunn, the Deacon of Mainz. 4/6

Opening of text listing the Electors of Germany in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

A handful of lines written in Middle Low German in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

Opening of the Epistola Luciferi, a satirical letter supposedly written by the devil that attacks secular clergy and lampoons their faults, in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 12

Confessional treatises by Johannes Nider & Heinrich von Langenstein, excerpts from the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Augustine, Caesarius of Heisterbach, Thomas Aquinas... 3/6

Text from a pastoral treatise in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 12

A confessional manual focusing on the deadly sins, with schematic trees and diagrams outlining each sin and it's offshoots and remedies 2/6

Schematic diagrams of the deadly sins in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

Schematic diagrams of the sins and their remedies in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

Text from a confessional manual in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

Opening page of a confessional text in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

Illustration of the Scarlet Beast of the Apocalypse, complete with a man-headed tail, in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

Schematic diagrams of the deadly sins facing an illustration of the Scarlet Beast of the Apocalypse in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 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...

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

Decorated initial "D" with white vinework elements in an 11th-century Homiliary manuscript from Italy now at the Ohio State University's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.

Recto side of a manuscript leaf from an 11th-century Homiliary manuscript from Italy now at the Ohio State University's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.

Verso side of a manuscript leaf from an 11th-century Homiliary manuscript from Italy now at the Ohio State University's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.

Detail of text from an 11th-century Homiliary manuscript from Italy now at the Ohio State University's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 27

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

Bifolium from a ca. 1300 manuscript of Adam of Aldersbach's Summula Pauperum. Ohio State University Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.419.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 25

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!

Illustrated, chromolithographed trade card produced for the Au Bon Marche department store in Paris, depicting Don Quixote tilting at windmills.

Page opening from the 2005 Quechua translation of Don Quixote, with illustrations showing Don Quixote amidst an Andean landscape.

Title page of Ohio State's copy of a 1605 printing of Don Quixote.

Illustrations from a children's adaptations of Don Quixote illustrated by H. Le Monnier, printed in 1964.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 25

Here's the Schoenberg record: sdbm.library.upenn.edu/entries/185602

SDBM_185602 - Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts

sdbm.library.upenn.edu

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 25

And here's another folio from the MS, now in the Western Medieval Manuscripts Collection at Keio University in Japan: dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp/en/western-m...

Quatuor Libri Sententiarum, Book II | 慶應義塾大学メディアセンターデジタルコレクションDigital Collections of Keio University Libraries

dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 25

Another folio, with text from Bk. I, Dist. 36-37, is now at Winthrop University: digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/medievalmanu...

Sentences- Med MS 7A

Peter Lombard, Sentences. Single folio on vellum. England, ca. 1275: 328 x 218 mm, written area 200 x 125 mm. Double column, 50 lines. Decoration: four multi-line initials in alternating red and blue ...

digitalcommons.winthrop.edu

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 25

The MS was ultimately broken and dispersed after being sold at Sotheby's, 24 June 1980, lot 59; but at least some folios were loose by 1910 when John Frederick Lewis acquired two of them, now at Philadelphia's Free Library: libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item...

Digital Collections: [Peter Lombard, Sentences, Liber II, with later marginal glosses]

[Peter Lombard, Sentences, Liber II, with later marginal glosses]

libwww.freelibrary.org

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 21

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!

Manuscript map of the Dead Sea and environs, added to a 15th-century French book of hours.

Engraved ng of a pirate battle at see in Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin's Bucaniers of America, 1684-1685.

Page opening in a 15th-century manuscript compilation of late-antique and early-medieval geographical treatises

Snapshot of some of the many rare materials on display for the maritime humanities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance symposium at the Ohio State University.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 19

I love "new" acquisitions that don't cost us anything!

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 19

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).

Sebastian Münster's Die neuwen inseln, a 16th-century map depicting the Americas, Japan, and the continental edges of Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Detail of Sebastian Münster's Die neuwen inseln depicting North and Central America, with Japan off the west.

Detail of Sebastian Münster's Die neuwen inseln depicting South America.

Detail of Sebastian Münster's Die neuwen inseln depicting Magellan's flagship.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 18

Nice! I think a (formal) reconstruction effort is needed for this vol. Calling all student-fragmentologists!

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 18

A sister volume to the codex Ege broke is now in Baltimore at the Walters Art Museum, MS W.805. You can see its description and select images of illuminated folios here: www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters... #IlluminatedManuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #BibleMSS

Walters Ms. W.805, Bible (part)

www.thedigitalwalters.org

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 18

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

Detail of handwriting, with a large decorative initial in blue and rubricated text in red, from a lectern Bible manuscript produced in Bohemia or Germany in 1507.

Detail of handwriting, with a large decorative initial and rubricated text in red, from a lectern Bible manuscript produced in Bohemia or Germany in 1507.

Parchment folio from a lectern Bible manuscript produced in Bohemia or Germany in 1507, preserving text from IV (II) Kings 11:18-13:14.

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 12

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

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Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 10

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

Detail of a folio from a 15th-century book of hours showing a historiated initial depicting a medieval bishop. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.396

Illuminated folio from a 15th-century book of Hours. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.396

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