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Beauvais Missal – Virtual Reconstruction

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

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[sine loco], codices restituti, various

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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.

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Online Since
11/19/2019

Beauvais Missal

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

F-4ihz

[sine loco], codices restituti, various

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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Brölemann, Henry Auguste 1775-1854

Role: Previous Owner
Authority Source: Fragmentarium

Duschnes, Philip C

Role: Fragmentator
Authority Source: VIAF
Biographical data: 1897-1970

Ege, Otto F.

Role: Fragmentator
Authority Source: VIAF
Biographical data: 1888-1951

Hearst, William Randolph

Role: Previous Owner
Authority Source: VIAF
Biographical data: 1863-1951

Petit de Meurville, François Didier

Role: Previous Owner
Authority Source: VIAF
Biographical data: 1793-1873

Beauvais (France)

Role: Not Specified
Authority Source: VIAF

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