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Beauvais Missal – Virtual Reconstruction

Parchment · 109 leaves (of 309) · 1270 – 1300 CE · Beauvais · 290 x 204 mm

F-4ihz

[sine loco], codices restituti, various

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Albany, NY, State Library of New York · Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst · Athens, OH, Ohio University · Bloomington, IN, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington · Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Public Library · Boulder, CO, University of Colorado, Boulder · Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, Glencairn Museum · Buffalo, NY, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library · Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library · Canberra, The Australian National University Library · Chicago, Illinois, Loyola University, Chicago · Cincinnati, OH, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County · Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Public Library · Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art · Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina · Columbus, OH, The Ohio State University · Denison, Ohio, Denison University · East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State University, Special Collections · Greensboro, NC, University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Hamilton, New York, Colgate University, Picker Art Gallery · Hanover, NH, Dartmouth Library · Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, Indianapolis Museum of Art · Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, Western Michigan University · Kent, OH, Kent State University · Kenyon, OH, Kenyon College · Lima, OH, Lima Public Library · Louisville, Kentucky, University of Louisville, Archives and Special Collections · Mansfield, Connecticut, University of Connecticut, Archives & Special Collections · Memphis, Tennessee, Rhodes College, Barret Library, Archives and Special Collections · Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota · New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University · New Haven, CT, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library · New York City, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library · New York City, New York, United States, Metropolitan Museum of Art · Newark, NJ, Newark Public Library · Northampton, MA, Smith College · Northampton, Massachusetts, United States, Smith College Museum of Art · Notre Dame, Indiana, University of Notre Dame · Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum · Oslo, Norway, Oslo Cathedral School (Oslo katedralskole), · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Temple University · Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Public Library · Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design Museum · Roanoke, Virginia, United States, Hollins College · Rochester, NY, Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, New York, United States, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, Sibley Music Library · Sacramento, California, Center for Sacramento History · Saskatoon, SK, University of Saskatchewan · Schenectady, NY, Union College · Seattle, Washington, United States, University of Washington, Special Collections · St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts · Stony Brook, NY, Stony Brook University · Tokyo, Waseda University · Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art · Toronto, ON, Ontario College of Art and Design · Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College · Toronto, Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario · Unknown, Current Location Unknown · Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum · Washington, D.C., Georgetown University, Booth Family Center for Special Collections · Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art · Waterville, Maine, United States, Colby College, Special Collections & Archives · Wellesley, Massachusetts, Wellesley College

Century

13th century

Text Language

Latin

Script Type

Gothic Script (generic)

Liturgica

Missal

Persons

Brölemann, Henry Auguste 1775-1854 (Previous Owner)

Duschnes, Philip C (Fragmentator)

Ege, Otto F. (Fragmentator)

Hearst, William Randolph (Previous Owner)

Petit de Meurville, François Didier (Previous Owner)

Places

Beauvais (France)

Summary

The Beauvais Missal is one of the best-known victims of mid-twentieth-century American biblioclasm, serving as a perfect example of just how great a loss is incurred when a codex is dismembered and its leaves scattered. The manuscript was written in or near Beauvais, France, in the last quarter of the thirteenth century and was used early on at the cathedral there, as evidenced by an inscription on a lost leaf, transcribed in a 1926 Sotheby’s auction catalogue. Peter Kidd recently discovered that the manuscript was purchased from Sotheby’s by American industrialist William Randolph Hearst, who owned it until 1942 when he sold it through Gimbel Brothers to New York dealer Philip Duschnes, who cut it up and began selling leaves less than one month later. He passed the remnants on to Otto Ege, who scattered it through his usual means, by gift or sale. Leaves of the Beauvais Missal are no. 15 in Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolio.