It is 214mm tall and 145mm wide, written in Latin in minute gothic book-hand script in brown ink, and is beautiful with rubricated chapter numbers, initials and marginalia in red and blue. The text on this leaf begins with Psalm 113.14 and ends with Psalm 118.71. On the whole, it is a very nice leaf to have in my study, and is by far the oldest thing that I have at home.
It came from the manuscript collection of Otto Ege (1888-1951), Dean of the Cleveland institute of Art and lecturer on history of the book at Western Reserve University and Northwestern University. He was a book collector and owned many medieval manuscripts (50 complete manuscripts from his collection were purchased by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 2015). Ege came to think that he would like to provide as many people as possible with access to medieval manuscripts. So he disbound many of his manuscripts, divided the leaves into forty boxes, and sold them around the world. Several universities and libraries in the States, Canada and Europe are said to own a box of manuscripts from Ege's collection. Each box is said to have contained about 50 leaves of religious manuscripts made between 1100 and 1550.
The University of Saskatchewan bought one of those boxes (no. 25) in 1957, and in June 2005, they held an exhibition entitled 'Scattered Leaves: The Otto Ege Medieval Manuscript Collection' at Gordon Snelgrove Gallarly. According to the website of the exhibition, Ege wrote in defense of his practice that 'Few, indeed, can hope to own a complete manuscript book; hundreds, however, may own a leaf'. Thanks to his 'philosophy', I have a leaf at hand and see it every day!
For more information about Ege's collection sold around the world, see this website by the University of Saskatchewan.