![]() I spoke with the owner several times by phone, and he was quite happy to share images with me and other fragmentologists. 15 in the box), but an entirely unknown “Fifty Original Leaves” set! Fifty “new” leaves to examine, to add to the corpus of Ege leaves, to contribute to burgeoning scholarship on these manuscripts. Not only a previously-unknown Beauvais Missal leaf (no. His uncle had purchased it in the 1970s from dealer Bruce Ferrini, but its location since then had been unknown. ![]() 1, long declared missing and never-before studied. Given the state of his uncle’s home (left), it’s somewhat of a miracle that the box was recovered at all! He was writing with very exciting news in cleaning out his recently-deceased uncle’s home, he had found a box in a basement closet with a label reading “Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts” and Otto Ege’s name inside. Until now.Ī few weeks ago, I was contacted by a gentleman from Ohio who had found my name and email address after searching online for information about Otto Ege. Of the original forty, only twenty-eight have been found. Leaf 1 in one portfolio, for example, always comes from the same manuscript as Leaf 1 in every other portfolio of that name. Each portfolio contains fifty leaves, one from each of the same group of fifty manuscripts. Today, I’m revisiting that manuscript to show you what she looked like.Īs many of you will know by now, Ege and his wife Louise assembled forty “Fifty Original Leaves” (FOL) portfolios in the late 1940s (Louise continued the project after Otto’s death in 1951). Margaret, patron of pregnant women, suggesting that it had been made for a woman. The manuscript included a lengthy versified Life of St. I demonstrated how the contents of that manuscript identified it as having been made for the liturgical use of Châlons-sur-Marne (now Châlons-en-Champagne), near Reims in Northeast France, in the Champagne-Ardenne region. ![]() Hope that helps.The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112rīack in 2014, I wrote about a lovely Book of Hours from late-fifteenth-century France that was dismembered by Otto Ege in the 1940s and whose leaves became number 48 in his “Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts” portfolios. Editors give some allowance for an initial submission, so you should be ok.įor help with working within the word limit, you may refer to this piece: 10 Tips to reduce the length of your research paperĪnd for further help, you may of course use a language editing service. But in case you’ve tried your best and it doesn’t come down any further, you may go ahead and submit it, but inform the editor in your cover letter. In case your manuscript exceeds the count, of course, you should try and reduce the count. So, you should check the guidelines.Ī couple of points more. However, the journal usually specifies this in their author guidelines. The title has its own word limit (say about 10-15 max), so too the abstract (about 200-250 words). The main text and also tables, figures, and captions for them are included in the count. Front matter such as title, author, and abstract and end matter such as references and acknowledgments are typically not included in the manuscript word count.
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