Otto Ege

Otto F. Ege (1888–1951) was a teacher, lecturer, bookseller, and well-known book-breaker. He worked for many years at the Cleveland Institute of Art where he served as Chair of the Department of Teacher Training, instructor of Lettering, Layout, and Typography, commonly referred to as "Otto Ege Portfolios". These portfolios were in turn sold and distributed world wide.

Over the last several years, Peter Stoicheff has been working to locate all existing Ege Portfolios, and to foster co-operation from their respective owners in creating an "Ege Medieval Manuscript Database" with the ultimate goal being the digital reconstruction of the complete books. In 2013, Scott Gwara published a comprehensive handlist of all known manuscripts broken by Ege with an indication of the leaves' current locations in libraries worldwide.

In 2015, Ege's personal collection, including 50 unbroken manuscript books, was acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (part of Yale University Library).