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12022-10-20T15:12:05-07:00Elizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d524063613plain2022-11-25T06:25:10-08:00Elizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d52 The Book-Breaker
MS 9/2:4 is a parchment leaf that was removed from a Book of Hours in the 20th century by Otto F. Ege (1888-1951.) Ege was the Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art and lecturer on the History of the Book at Western Reserve University. He was a self-proclaimed “biblioclast,” or book-breaker, dispersing leaves from hundreds of damaged and incomplete manuscripts to American institutions from 1917 - 1950. Ege argued that book breaking allowed individuals and small institutions access to fragments at a lower cost.