Eric J. Johnson

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Professor & Head of Thompson Special Collections, Ohio State University / Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts / Medieval MSS nerd / Fragmentology / walking / puro RGV, y que

Spine and front cover of a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.
Sir Thomas Phillipps' owner inscription on the front flyleaf of a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.
Opening of text listing the Electors of Germany in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.
Text from a pastoral treatise in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.
Schematic diagrams of the deadly sins in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.
Illustration of the Scarlet Beast of the Apocalypse, complete with a man-headed tail, in a mid-15th century collection of pastoral and assorted works. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Cod.97.
Decorated initial "D" with white vinework elements in an 11th-century Homiliary manuscript from Italy now at the Ohio State University's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.
Bifolium from a ca. 1300 manuscript of Adam of Aldersbach's Summula Pauperum. Ohio State University Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.419.
Illustrated, chromolithographed trade card produced for the Au Bon Marche department store in Paris, depicting Don Quixote tilting at windmills.
Manuscript map of the Dead Sea and environs, added to a 15th-century French book of hours.
Sebastian Münster's Die neuwen inseln, a 16th-century map depicting the Americas, Japan, and the continental edges of Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Detail of handwriting, with a large decorative initial in blue and rubricated text in red, from a lectern Bible manuscript produced in Bohemia or Germany in 1507.
Detail of a folio from a 15th-century book of hours showing a historiated initial depicting a medieval bishop. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.396
Illuminated leaf from a late-15th century French Book of Hours with an illumination of the marriage of Mary and Joseph at the top of the page.
Recto of a manuscript folio of the De Judiciis Astrologiae by the 11th-century Tunisian astrologer Haly Abenragel (Abu I-Hasan Ali ibn Abi I-Rijal).
An early-8th century manuscript leaf from the so-called Luxeuil Prophets, featuring text from the biblical book of Daniel, chapter 3.
Recto sides of a pair of manuscript folios from a late-15th century German Choir Psalter.
Vancouver skyline from across the harbor in North Vancouver.
Pair of illuminated initials in a mid-13th century Parisian pocket Bible manuscript.
The world's most beautiful cat, Olive, in loaf shape, reposing on o footstool, in all her calico glory.
Folio from a mid-13th century English pocket Bible manuscript with text in two columns from the Gospel of John 9:36-12:15, with a large hole of split scar tissue at the lower left corner, and with numerous scribal corrections and textual annotations and references in the margins, some of them framed in red.
Pair of leaves from a so-called manuscript "scholar's Bible," produced in England (poss. London), ca. 1230-40, one from the original volume's tripartite Psalms and the other from IIII Kings.
Recto sides of four Illuminated folios from a small-format illuminated Book of Hours produced in England in the 14th-century.
A manuscript folio from a codex dismembered by Otto Ege to produce the Fifty Original Leaves from Famous MSS portfolio, this one from a mid-12th century Italian Lectionary with a large blue and red decorated initial (HL 3).
Picture of the metal band Quiet Riot on stage in Columbus, OH.
A manuscript folio from the so-called "St. Alexius Hours," a ca. 1460 French Book of Hours with exceptional illumination on each page.
One of the homes of a notorious NE Ohio book-breaker, complete with many inflatable Christmas decorations on display in the front yard.
Olive, the world's best cat, warming herself before a heat lamp on a cold winter's night.
Hand-drawn face added to an initial in a densely annotated early-16th century copy of the De viris illustribus attributed to Suetonius.
Densely annotated early-16th century copy of the De viris illustribus attributed to Suetonius, with reader-added doodles of faces drawn inside large initials.
Pair of medieval manuscript leaves, the one the left from a 12th-century copy of Gregory the Great's XL Homiliae and the one on the right from a mid-13th century pocket Bible.
Picture of a large choir book manuscript folio pasted to the lid of an oversized metal box.
Group of medieval manuscript fragments, including leaves from a pair of Missals, an antiphonal, a Psalter, and a Book of Hours.
Group of five folios from a manuscript copy of Peter Lombard's Sentences produced in England, ca. 1275. Picture shows the recto side of each folio. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.425.
Detail of script in a leaf from a ca. 1175-1200 manuscript Missal broken and dispersed by the famous biblioclast, Otto Ege.
Medieval caricature of a monk and sheep on a binding fragment incorporated into a ca. 1400 English manuscript copy of William of Pagula's treatise, the Oculus Sacerdotis, or Eye of the Priest. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.RateS.MR.Cod.1.
Detail of humanist script from a 15th-century manuscript copy of Cicero's De Amicitia. Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.505.
Detail of text and the 17th-century signature of James Boraston in a ca. 1200 English transitional Bible folio reused as a #BindingFragment. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.515.
Detail of script from a manuscript collection of exempla produced in England in the 14th century. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.518
Close-up shot of text from a 14th-century copy of Vergil's Aeneid.
Seven medieval manuscript codices standing together upright showing parts of their spines and covers.
Close-up of offsets from medieval pilgrims' badges in a medieval manuscript.
Close-up picture of Caroline minuscule script and Rustic Roman Capitals from a ca. late-11th or early-12th century manuscript copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob, recycled as the cover to a 1501 printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger.
Picture of a back-lit paper bifolium of a medieval dictionary revealing its watermark.
Pencil sketch of a boat and watercolor painting of a sitting woman in a sketchbook compiled by one Mrs. Day, a lady from Oxford, on her trip to France in the late 19th century.
Detailed picture of text in a manuscript leaf from an Italian Romanesque monastic copy of St. Augustine’s Tractatus in Iohannem (Tract. XLVII in CCSL vol. 36 ), likely produced in Tuscany, ca. 1150.
Illumination of St. Bernard preaching to a group of seated Cistercian monks from a mid-15th century Missal, possibly produced for and used at Neubourg Abbey in Alsace. Text: prompts, chants, and readings for feasts of the Assumption of the Virgin and the nativity of Bernard of Clairvaux. Shelfmark: Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, The Ohio State University, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.449.
Rogers Arena in Vancouver during Canadian national anthem, with crowd, giant Canadian flag, and colored lights.
Medieval medical manuscript recycled as a binding fragment in 1541 edition of Aristotle on natural science.
Small hand-colored woodblock of the face of Christ in Vade mecum Missale…, Nuremberg: Hieronymus Höltzel, 1507.
Calico cat snugly snoozing on a lap.