The Beauvais Missal: Otto Ege’s Scattered Leaves and Digital Surrogacy

Abstract

While single manuscript leaves in the United States were sourced from hundreds, perhaps thousands, of manuscripts and distributed by many bookdealers, a large portion of the Canadian corpus of around 650 leaves can be traced to a single source in the mid-twentieth century: Cleveland educator, collector, and dealer Otto F. Ege. Because of this common origin, an analysis of the Canadian corpus presents intriguing possibilities for the identification of related membra disiecta. This article presents a case study focusing on the four Canadian leaves from the late thirteenth-century Beauvais Missal.

How Can Data Science Contribute to Understanding the Khipu Code?

“…In our view, arithmetically aided khipu reunion encourages as much an expanded search for other dissociated fragments as a reevaluation of specimens previously asserted to conjoin based on ad hoc, visual observation (e.g., Pancorvo 2020:450-451). With at least 156 potential membra disiecta sporting broken primary cords, we are optimistic that this initial attempt at a "khipu fragmentology" will make KH0468 only the first of other such matches to come (Davis 2016), particularly across different collections (see also Bjerregaard 2001).…”