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New Antiphonal MS fragment featuring chants for the feast of St. John the Evangelist, ca. 1200. OSU MS.MR.Frag.297. #MSSfragments #OSURBML

Augustine's Tractates on the Gospel of John, Beneventan manuscript, ca. 1075. #OSURBML #AAISCSIS #bindingfragments #MSSfragments

Lovely pastedown in a copy of Denis the Carthusian’s Summae vitiorum et virtutum... (1533 ed.). Gotta love the multiple MS layers of recycled and offset text! One of dozens of “new” medieval MSS we’re discovering in our ongoing survey of early bindings! #mssfragments

A Beatty Bible folio #mssfragments

The opening armorial leaf from what must’ve been a gorgeous Spanish carta de hidalguia #mssfragments

Hope rewarded! I landed 2 more folios from the Hornby-Cockerell Bible, the early-13th century transitional Bible MS I’m reconstructing! (I’m just a bit excited about this!) Here’s a pic of one. #mssfragments

And a clutch of about a dozen leaves from an illuminated picket Bible. I’m partial to King David ringing his bells! #mssfragments

And a lovely folio from Delft. mssfragments

@LatinAristotle Recycled binding fragment: bifolium from the Auctoritates Aristotelis, ca. 1300. Private coll., Columbus, OH #MSSfragments

Ainoa Castro Spanish Gradual, Catalonia, ca. 1200. A few shots of the 4 fols. at OSU. MS.MR.Frag.175 #MSSfragments #OSURBML #medievalmusic

Nice new addition at #osurbml Pair of hand-colored German/Austrian broadside calendars for 1603 pasted as inner lining to a ca. 1400 MS Missal bifolium, together serving as a wrapper for an early-17th century ledger #mssfragments The Ohio State University Libraries OSU_CMRS

@LatinAristotle Bifolium of us identified commentary on Aristotle's Categoriae, ca. 1350. MS.MR.Frag.239 #MSSfragments #AristotelesLatinus

Ainoa Castro Romanesque Spanish Atlantic Bible fragment, ca. 1150-75. MS.MR.Frag.196 #MSSfragments #bible #OSURBML #medievalmanuscripts

All told, about 50-60 fascinating #mssfragments from the 12th-early-16th centuries. Definitely worth the trip! Now I just need to convince them all to move to Columbus! I have just the right library home for them picked out! The Ohio State University Libraries

In honor of the feast day of Mary Magdalene, here’s an illuminated page from a Book of Hours produced in Bruges, ca. 1450-75, featuring her #osurbml MS.MR.Frag.305 #mssfragments The Ohio State University Libraries OSU Humanities Institute Ohio State