Original leaves from famous Bibles : nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D. : collected and assembled by Otto F. Ege
- Creator
- Ege, Otto F.
- Form
- books
- Leaf books
- Date
- between 1930 and 1939
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Specimens
- Early printed books -- Specimens
- Printing -- Specimens
- Printing
- Early printed books
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts
- Collection
- Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Bible Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 1 case (39 unnumbered leaves) ; 52 cm
- Publisher
- [Ege?]
- Related Place
- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
- Notes
- Title from preliminary leaf.
- Consists of 1 preliminary leaf and 38 individually matted original leaves, with a printed explanatory caption mounted on each mat.
- During the years 1938-1950, Ege published portfolios under this title with 37, 50 and 60 leaves.
- Includes 37 original leaves from 3 ms. Bibles, 2 printed Bibles from the 15th century, 12 from the 16th, 8 from the 17th century, 4 from the 18th century, 4 from the 19th, and 4 from the 20th century.
- Includes 3 ms. leaves on vellum: "Leaf from an Armenian manuscript Bible, 1121 A.D.," "Leaf from a miniature manuscript Bible [Latin Vulgate] circa 1240 A.D.," and "Leaf from a Paris manuscript Bible [Latin Vulgate] circa 1310 A.D."
- Each original leaf mounted at left edge in passepartout folder with printed descriptive slip hinged at lower left corner.
- Table of contents: Armenian manuscript Bible, 1121 -- Miniature manuscript Bible, ca 1240 -- Paris manuscript Bible, ca 1310 -- Italian incunabula Bible, 1495 -- Koberger Latin Bible, 1497 -- Aldine Greek Bible, 1518 -- Bible of the Low Countries, 1532 -- Suppressed Luther Bible, 1541 -- Matthew Bible, 1549 -- Great Bible, 1549 -- Giustiniani's Hebrew-Latin Bible, 1551 -- Stephanus Latin Bible, 1555 -- Plantin Louvain Bible, 1565 -- Stephanus Greek New Testament, 1569 -- Bishops' Bible, 1575 -- Genevan, or Breeches Bible, 1592 -- Hamburg Polyglot, 1596 -- Fulke's New Testament, 1601 -- Second printed Spanish Bible, 1602 -- King James Bible, 1611 (2 leaves) -- Pearl Bible, 1653 -- London Polyglot Bible, O.T., 1655 -- London Polyglot Bible, N.T., 1657 -- Elzevir States general Bible, 1663 -- Eliot Indian Bible, 1685 -- Baskett Bible, 1740 -- Germantown Bible, 1763 -- Baskerville Cambridge Bible, 1763 -- Baskerville Birmingham Bible, 1769 -- Thomas Greek New Testament, 1800 -- Thomson's Bible, 1808 -- The Immaculate Bible, 1811 -- Polychrome Bible, 1899 -- Doves Bible, 1903-1905 -- Miniature Bible, 1919 -- Nonesuch Bible, 1924-1925 -- Rogers Oxford Lectern Bible, 1935.
- Culture Class Collection copy has, included in same portfolio, an additional 6 leaves with bookseller's (Dawson's Book Shop) descriptions. Kelmscott Press, leaf from Sidonia the Sorceress printed by William Morris in 1893 -- The Ibarra Sallust, leaf from edition of Sallust printed at Madrid by Joachin Ibarra, 1772 -- Manuscript on vellum, Armenian Bible leaf written on animal skin, fifteenth century -- Nuremburg Chronicle leaf, printed from moveable type by Anton Koberger in 1493, first edition -- Chinese block printing, leaf from Buddhist Scriptures printed from wooden blocks in 1440 A.D. -- Leaf from the first collected edition of Chaucer, made by William Thyne, in 1532, printed in London by Thomas Godfray.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pv6bs9w
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Portfolio Bible 1
- Provenance
- Dawson's Book Shop (former owner) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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