[SOA] Otto Ege Manuscript Event at the Kelvin Smith Library, CWRU, 1/20/2016

[Eleanor Blackman]

Thank you in advance for posting the following:

Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis will be speaking on 1/20/2016 at the Kelvin Smith
Library about former WRU faculty member Otto Ege, famous for dismembering
books.

Dr. Davis will focus on the Beauvais Missal in particular, part of which is
owned by Kelvin Smith Library. Following the talk, attendees will have the
opportunity to handle our fragment of the missal, as well as other “Ege
leaves.”

*"Picking up the Pieces: Case Western's Otto Ege and the Beauvais Missal”
by Lisa Fagin Davis*
January 20, 12pm, Kelvin Smith Library Dampeer Room

The Beauvais Missal is one of the best-known victims of
mid-twentieth-century American biblioclasm, serving as a perfect example of
just how great a loss is incurred when a codex is dismembered and its
leaves scattered. It also serves as a hopeful case study of the
possibilities offered by recent developments in imaging and metadata
standards, platforms, and interoperability. The manuscript was written in
or near Beauvais, France, in the last quarter of the thirteenth century and
was used early on at the cathedral there, as evidenced by an inscription on
a lost leaf, transcribed in a 1926 Sotheby’s auction catalogue. The
manuscript was purchased from Sotheby’s by American industrialist William
Randolph Hearst, who owned it until 1942 when he sold it through Gimbel
Brothers to New York dealer Philip Duschnes, who cut it up and began
selling leaves less than one month later. He passed the remnants on to his
friend and associate, Case Western professor Otto Ege, who scattered it
through his usual means, by gift or sale. This paper will introduce the
incipient digital reconstruction of the ninety-six known leaves of the
Beauvais Missal - spread across 26 states and five countries - and present
initial findings based on an analysis of the extant portion of the
manuscript, focusing in particular on the leaf owned by CWRU and its place
in the manuscript.


*Lisa Fagin Davis* received her PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale
University in 1993. She has catalogued medieval manuscript collections at
Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Wellesley College, the
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Boston Public Library, and several private
collections. Her publications include: the Catalogue of Medieval and
Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University, Vol. IV (with R. G. Babcock and P. Rusche, Tempe, 2004);
The Gottschalk Antiphonary (Cambridge University Press, 2000); numerous
articles in the fields of manuscript studies and codicology; and the
monograph, La Chronique Anonyme Universelle: Reading and Writing History in
Fifteenth-Century France (a translation, critical edition and detailed
study of a fifteenth-century French world chronicle, published by Brepols
Publishers in 2015). Dr. Davis was a member of the EAMMS working group that
established initial standards for electronic cataloguing of pre-1600
manuscript material and is currently serving on the Digital Scriptorium
Bibliographic Standards Committee. With Melissa Conway, Davis is co-author
of the Directory of Pre-1600 Manuscripts in the United States and Canada,
published online by the Bibliographical Society of America and as Volume
109:3 of the Papers of the BSA. In addition to serving as Executive
Director of the Medieval Academy of America, Lisa Fagin Davis regularly
teaches an introduction to manuscript studies at the Simmons College
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She is the author of
"The Manuscript Road Trip," a blog devoted to promoting collections of
medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in North America.



-- 
Eleanor Blackman <exo2 at case.edu>, M.A., C.A.
Archivist
Scholarly Resources & Special Collections
Kelvin Smith Library
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7151
216.368.6504
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