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Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 15
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Manuscripts, The Jessie L. Clough Art Memorial for Teaching, Leaves, Images, Ege, Otto F., 1888-1951
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This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Paris: Ex Officina Robertii Stephani // This Hebrew Bible was complied and printed in seventeen 16 mo. volumes by the greatest scholar-printer of all time, Robert Stephanus; it was based on the text of Jacob Chayim of Tunis. Francis I appointed Robert Stephanus king’s printer for Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in recognition of the accuracy and beauty of his texts. The fine Hebrew characters used in the publication have been attributed to the distinguished Venetian letter-founder, Guillaume le Be and supposedly were paid for by the king."
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Scanned by Doug Fetterman, Class of 2016, in 2014.