Eric J. Johnson

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illuminated leaf from a late-15th century French Book of Hours with an illumination of the marriage of Mary and Joseph at the top of the page.

Illuminated leaf from a late-15th century French Book of Hours with an illumination of the marriage of Mary and Joseph at the top of the page.

Illuminated leaf from a late-15th century French Book of Hours, featuring a close up of an illuminated bird in the folio's margin.

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

I look forward to it!

Just line fillers helping medieval scribes and readers avoid their phobia of hanging/empty space in the MS page! A nice, lovely example! This format is pretty typical in the litany portions of Psalter, Books of Hours, etc.

Abenragel's treatise, the Kitab al-bari fi ahkam an-nujum) was translated in ca. 1255 from the Arabic into Old Castilian by the Jewish scholar Yehuda Ben Moshe ha-Kohen, personal physician to Alfonso X of Castile, & then into Latin ca. 1275 by Aegidius de Tebaldis & Petrus de Regio. #fragmentology

Recto of a manuscript folio of the De Judiciis Astrologiae by the 11th-century Tunisian astrologer Haly Abenragel (Abu I-Hasan Ali ibn Abi I-Rijal).

Verso of a manuscript folio of the De Judiciis Astrologiae by the 11th-century Tunisian astrologer Haly Abenragel (Abu I-Hasan Ali ibn Abi I-Rijal).

Nifty reader-added maniculum (pointing hand) indicating an important passage of text in a manuscript folio of the De Judiciis Astrologiae by the 11th-century Tunisian astrologer Haly Abenragel (Abu I-Hasan Ali ibn Abi I-Rijal).

Detail of handwritten text in a manuscript folio of the De Judiciis Astrologiae by the 11th-century Tunisian astrologer Haly Abenragel (Abu I-Hasan Ali ibn Abi I-Rijal).

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