Reconstructing the Ege Collection of medieval manuscripts

An early 20th-century book collector, Otto Ege, assembled the (40) boxes, each containing...pages...from 50 different texts dated between 1100 and 1550 AD.

"We were pretty silent and astonished," (professor Peter) Stoicheff recalled in an interview last week.

"When we opened the box and saw that first page, it was rather simple. But it was so fascinating. It was from the 1100s. I mean, it's not very often that you get to put your hands on something from so long ago. It was quite moving."

So moving, in fact, that Stoicheff has made it a personal goal to track down the 39 other boxes and bring all their owners together, essentially rebinding the books that were taken apart decades ago and reconstructing lost story lines.

eBay figures in, as well.

Unnati Gandhi has the story in the Globe and Mail.

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Link Rot! Here's another shot at it. If this doesn't work, Google some of the text.

Well, rats. I can't get it to paste. Google the text: you'll find it. It is an interesting story.