The Medieval Provenance of Otto Ege’s ‘Chain of Psalms’ (FOL 4)

A research note on Otto Ege’s Fifty Original Leaves no. 4, a “Chain of Psalms”, which is, in fact, part of Philip the Chancellor’s Summa super Psalterium; the donor codex, recently identified as Notre Dame (IN), University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library, cod. Lat. b. 11, contains an erased ownership inscription which, with the aid of ultraviolet light, indicates that the complete manuscript belonged to the library of the Servite friars at San Marcello al Corso in Rome.

Digitally Documenting the Transformation of the Eternal City. Cities in Text: Rome

Historical guidebooks and maps of Rome provide both an architectural narrative and a snapshot of the city at distinct historical moments. The Historic Urban Environments Lab at the University of Notre Dame (HUE/ND) combined these resources to create Cities in Text: Rome. This interactive research tool was designed to analyze the complex layers of the Eternal City. It provides access to the digital representation of guidebooks produced in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. These works have been transcribed, translated, and linked with historic and present-day maps, photographs, and drawings presented on a website and mobile application (hue.nd.edu). The project led to several discoveries, including identifying the existing remains of Rome’s medieval residential façade porticoes, which were measured, drawn, and mapped. The work contributes to an understanding of the evolution of Rome’s cityscape, including its medieval fabric wholly ignored in these guides but still visible today.