{"id":4020,"date":"2016-03-09T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2021-01-29T21:41:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:41:34","slug":"public-history-partners-follow-the-trail-of-a-broken-and-lost-medieval-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/03\/09\/public-history-partners-follow-the-trail-of-a-broken-and-lost-medieval-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"Public History Partners Follow the Trail of a Dismantled and Lost Medieval Manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><em>Where are your other leaves? Re-discovering the Wilton Processional<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/03\/09\/public-history-partners-follow-the-trail-of-a-broken-and-lost-medieval-manuscript\/8b03e09a9ae9779a0c570e47b3e8c215\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4023\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/03\/8b03e09a9ae9779a0c570e47b3e8c215-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Close up on the word cantrix\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/03\/8b03e09a9ae9779a0c570e47b3e8c215-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/03\/8b03e09a9ae9779a0c570e47b3e8c215.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>Even a single page from a medieval book\u00a0can hold many secrets. Sometimes there are enough clues to uncover a surprising history.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2015, Heather Wacha, a PhD student in the History Department, and a member of History Corps, was assisting Special Collections in identifying a leaf that had been cut out of a medieval manuscript. Further investigation of this manuscript&#8217;s clues has since drawn together librarians, graduate students, and UNI professor Dr. Alison Altstatt. Together, they have uncovered\u00a0a story spanning centuries of a manuscript that was once created, then lost, then broken by notorious book breaker Otto Ege, and is now finally, refound: The Wilton Processional.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Special Collections is very pleased to bring you episode five from the &#8220;If Books Could Talk&#8221; video series, <em>Where are your other leaves? Re-discovering the Wilton Processional<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch the 16 minute video below, and read Heather Wacha\u2019s more extensive essay about this manuscript leaf on the History Corps website. <a href=\"https:\/\/thestudio.uiowa.edu\/historycorps\/exhibits\/show\/books\/episode5\">https:\/\/thestudio.uiowa.edu\/historycorps\/exhibits\/show\/books\/episode5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further information: Alison Altstatt, \u201cRe-membering the Wilton Processional,\u201d in <em>Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association <\/em>72:4 (forthcoming June 2016), 690-732.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If Books Could Talk: Where are your other leaves? Re-discovering the Wilton Processional [Episode 5]\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5AFRfpWYjGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;background: white;margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333;background: #F6F6F6\">Hosts: Colleen Theisen and Heather Wacha<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"background: #F6F6F6\">Guests: Michele Aichele and Alison Altstatt<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background: #F6F6F6\">Written by: Heather Wacha <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background: #F6F6F6\">Edited by: Katie Buehner<\/span><br \/>\nEssay: Heather Wacha<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are your other leaves? Re-discovering the Wilton Processional Even a single page from a medieval book\u00a0can hold many secrets. Sometimes there are enough clues to uncover a surprising history. In March 2015, Heather Wacha, a PhD student in the History Department, and a member of History Corps, was assisting Special Collections in identifying a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/03\/09\/public-history-partners-follow-the-trail-of-a-broken-and-lost-medieval-manuscript\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Public History Partners Follow the Trail of a Dismantled and Lost Medieval Manuscript&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":4023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[138,290,224,225,292,227,291,294,293],"syndication":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}