tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84770840435147991902024-03-28T21:59:15.904+00:00Medieval Manuscripts ProvenanceNotes and observationsPeter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.comBlogger503125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-45080412624609416922024-03-06T17:23:00.006+00:002024-03-27T13:27:57.994+00:00Hmmm ...<p>"Someone" has -- very tediously -- persuaded Google to remove (for a second time) my most recent blogpost. So let's just replace it with this (click the image to enlarge it):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYxDIdV5jApXUuQ_vOKIZQn3p-FpQ_vHyW1rxiGA27SFqhv9WXm4kwY3ky8MVbFElnR7VEUWNby-y91Xc1FQHl2LC7kCVztxM80yN4X_9lGIvVp5VcT_hW8VmzmCcsd1iIzdCKM7PyX_eHlAstv0Z42nhY-hciPKvL_yW40mOJzOWk85t-8Celxk4l2uS/s1408/ff7b1cd17155f77c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="1408" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYxDIdV5jApXUuQ_vOKIZQn3p-FpQ_vHyW1rxiGA27SFqhv9WXm4kwY3ky8MVbFElnR7VEUWNby-y91Xc1FQHl2LC7kCVztxM80yN4X_9lGIvVp5VcT_hW8VmzmCcsd1iIzdCKM7PyX_eHlAstv0Z42nhY-hciPKvL_yW40mOJzOWk85t-8Celxk4l2uS/w400-h253/ff7b1cd17155f77c.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The irony is delicious :-)</p><p></p><p>On the left is a book-review <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236782304_Medieval_Manuscripts_Their_Makers_and_Users_A_Special_Issue_of_%27Viator%27_in_Honor_of_Richard_and_Mary_Rouse_review">published in 2012</a>; on the right, one of several editions of <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oxDgEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=%22now+reside+in+alien+hands%22&source=bl&ots=v7kpDJoWMe&sig=ACfU3U0B2fAe-duYzUnH-E8yV2ZMmwH-VQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixna_1keCEAxVxVUEAHcAQAwwQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=%22now%20reside%20in%20alien%20hands%22&f=false"><i>The Book of Hours of Louis De Roucy</i></a>:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijg3kHGWc6IW747tgAZ3qdDrgV8EcJ4SMpPHCBZXfUiwzNKJK8KURIWn7BM4IED17AQymLL3KM9uMUpRIwht5CwpE5MCT566YJ5ElNmilEAk8Df6zBPmrZn22YuN2aldNLxOMlyZnvnSYLD5gKA3a6eSz9XXrwy3DIS01l3mLonjyIFs85xNF1zoZaD0YM/s975/AlienHands.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="975" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijg3kHGWc6IW747tgAZ3qdDrgV8EcJ4SMpPHCBZXfUiwzNKJK8KURIWn7BM4IED17AQymLL3KM9uMUpRIwht5CwpE5MCT566YJ5ElNmilEAk8Df6zBPmrZn22YuN2aldNLxOMlyZnvnSYLD5gKA3a6eSz9XXrwy3DIS01l3mLonjyIFs85xNF1zoZaD0YM/w400-h190/AlienHands.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-55642768865173997052023-11-11T17:22:00.000+00:002023-11-11T17:22:43.893+00:00Sydney Cockerell on the Value of Provenance in Catalogue Descriptions<p>I have just encountered, for the first time, this letter from Sydney Cockerell [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Cockerell">Wikipedia</a>] to the Editor of the <i>Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs</i>, 30 no. 169 (April 1917), p. 154 [click the images to enlarge them]:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrN9CBrc3Xva0Gia8L9UYDxjMfdnNHQDq3ls0zrCbrhZy8plYCYLoBJPgq46rMDUnzXMwSvnlsHz86BNY7bzzAVCOlaPXESuYl3ZOSH8RheNt6t2-5ZB-p492BrMcN2hmeGzoAJitAK5bgte3g1rqZewcpORhBZ6JnZ23WfLx55_SPo0qeKsirKQ1UkNe/s980/SCConProvenance.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="727" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrN9CBrc3Xva0Gia8L9UYDxjMfdnNHQDq3ls0zrCbrhZy8plYCYLoBJPgq46rMDUnzXMwSvnlsHz86BNY7bzzAVCOlaPXESuYl3ZOSH8RheNt6t2-5ZB-p492BrMcN2hmeGzoAJitAK5bgte3g1rqZewcpORhBZ6JnZ23WfLx55_SPo0qeKsirKQ1UkNe/w296-h400/SCConProvenance.png" width="296"></a></div><p><span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/11/sydney-cockerell-on-value-of-provenance.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-71682040785436300732023-10-29T07:27:00.002+00:002023-10-29T10:09:59.399+00:00An Unpublished Illuminated Calendar from the Abbey of Montier-la-Celle<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXIBKCs_4gosiCS0K52Odt5hO-2pEfvRbnV_wK6gsbW5g1KhAqjCHw60bLZUBXcXEUbhrCHQ_qjFWpwHItgJyDkx5WNskOAKnkCfVXDJ4JF7YlBL7eiroGwYGIg5c49mJwCtu_KY-ovdmgtRxL2VXJKe83vlNQE-2q7Nh31pRO5khP0SXKhJUCt4IdVoB/s600/SBT_DR10_1406_b_Gregory%20Cartulary_p8_Labour%20Roundel-smdet.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="600" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXIBKCs_4gosiCS0K52Odt5hO-2pEfvRbnV_wK6gsbW5g1KhAqjCHw60bLZUBXcXEUbhrCHQ_qjFWpwHItgJyDkx5WNskOAKnkCfVXDJ4JF7YlBL7eiroGwYGIg5c49mJwCtu_KY-ovdmgtRxL2VXJKe83vlNQE-2q7Nh31pRO5khP0SXKhJUCt4IdVoB/s320/SBT_DR10_1406_b_Gregory%20Cartulary_p8_Labour%20Roundel-smdet.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This and the following images are used <br>Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust <br>(CC-BY-NC-ND)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Interesting manuscripts can be found in unexpected places. At the CULTIVATE MSS conference in London a year ago [<a href="https://symphony-live-new2.s3.amazonaws.com/gxhI2PqdfaRSVxYtsQck7lkB1n6X5ApUgiwwzy5hLouF7mIbZcFe5JDnyYHTkMko/Provisional%20Conference%20programme%202022.pdf">PDF programme</a>], there was a presentation about the collection of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Birthplace_Trust">Wikipedia</a>], which was interesting but had very little to do with medieval manuscripts. One partly-medieval volume was mentioned and very briefly shown on screen, however, and after several months of emailing I was eventually able to get a complete set of images of the relevant part of it. One detail is shown above.</p><p><span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/10/an-unpublished-illuminated-calendar.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-24498534615882876022023-10-21T17:22:00.002+00:002023-10-26T11:16:27.144+00:00A.C. de la Mare and Neil Ker on Describing Script<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DmqWH96vkWwO6EnHZ9HMfe6EUyZrSMe2IPE52snDUInCqUqnKx-GspJT3A2Iqt67Nbo_2Dv3zFGXloAZMneujvrcVv-v7tqXu0cYb5qfz9-scWc3HshJw-GtF8BDl3DwReD79gjslVIsgtliZjDr-UpXa-hcRcv6msAi4KR3w8wcvob53H5AmOoZehaM/s1000/PXL_20230714_105117161-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="1000" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DmqWH96vkWwO6EnHZ9HMfe6EUyZrSMe2IPE52snDUInCqUqnKx-GspJT3A2Iqt67Nbo_2Dv3zFGXloAZMneujvrcVv-v7tqXu0cYb5qfz9-scWc3HshJw-GtF8BDl3DwReD79gjslVIsgtliZjDr-UpXa-hcRcv6msAi4KR3w8wcvob53H5AmOoZehaM/w400-h284/PXL_20230714_105117161-sm.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p></p><p>Anyone who has ever attempted to describe a manuscript will have faced the issue of terminology for describing script. Over the course of the last 75 years numerous books and articles have been written, and conferences held [1], discussing the issue, and yet we have still not arrived at any real consensus.</p><p>I think that two main drivers lay behind these publications and conferences, especially the earlier ones. One was to try to make palaeography more "scientific" (with implications of reliability and accuracy), and the other was to compensate for a lack of reproductions. It seems to me that the former was somewhat misguided [2], and the latter is now outdated [3].<br></p><p>If a series of Books of Hours are described as being mid 15th-century French, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, German, and Italian, then the knowledgeable reader will have a very good idea of what the script of each of them looks like, and how they differ from one another, without a formal description of their script. The same goes for an 11th-century biblical text, a 12th-century patristic text, a 13th-century academic text, a 14th-century legal text, a 15th-century Humanistic one, and so on. The date and place of origin, plus the type of text, is usually enough to indicate in <i>general</i> terms what the script looks like. No amount of description can ever convey its <i>precise</i> appearance <i>–</i> any attempt to do so is at best futile, and at worst misleading [4].</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/10/ac-de-la-mare-and-neil-ker-on.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-25322363374770904392023-10-14T11:29:00.005+00:002023-10-14T11:48:23.413+00:00Minor Initials from the Murano Gradual: Two More 19th-Century Albums<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRihMGpR-dWeKoJLo91W9tlJoQhnf7aXbE773hz4B8wBRVFMFLRIxNl6M97ZP4khWxVWhVVb_vLaHDt2rZWf9meSvQaV_oMRoKD-rPHhBe6dBPK-kmT80US219BxiXNNF6votL06iDk9k3yu_l3N6h6scbqVfouZzfB-3yqdUDLwp8TGA-tqXHHVVuiUEp/s600/BAV,%20Ross.%20151,%20fol.%206r-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="600" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRihMGpR-dWeKoJLo91W9tlJoQhnf7aXbE773hz4B8wBRVFMFLRIxNl6M97ZP4khWxVWhVVb_vLaHDt2rZWf9meSvQaV_oMRoKD-rPHhBe6dBPK-kmT80US219BxiXNNF6votL06iDk9k3yu_l3N6h6scbqVfouZzfB-3yqdUDLwp8TGA-tqXHHVVuiUEp/s320/BAV,%20Ross.%20151,%20fol.%206r-sm.jpg" width="320"></a></div><p></p><p>In March last year ago I wrote <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-murano-gradual-initials-ii-minor.html">a blogpost</a> about the minor (i.e. small foliate, not historiated) initials cut from the Murano Gradual. For a long time I had been very sceptical that they were indeed from the Murano Gradual -- because their style was so unlike the style of the minor initials that occur on the back of a few of the cuttings of historiated initials -- but when I eventually took the time to look closely at their script and musical notation, the relationship became plain.</p><p>I therefore compiled <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/p/the-minor-initials-of-murano-gradual.html">a list</a> of all the Murano Gradual's minor initials known to me: my hope is that, one day, someone will be able to emulate the exercise of reconstruction done by Margaret Rickert in the 1930s ("Fragmentology" is not a new field of study!), which resulted in three publications:</p><blockquote><p>Margaret Rickert, ‘The Reconstruction of an English Carmelite Missal’, <i>The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs</i>, vol. 67 no. 390 (Sept. 1935), pp. 99-113 (available to those with access to JSTOR <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/866190">here</a>)</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Margaret Rickert, ‘The Reconstruction of an English Carmelite Missal’, <i>Speculum</i>, XVI no. 1 (1941), pp. 92-102, pls. I-V (available to those with access to JSTOR <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2855912">here</a>)</p><p>Margaret Rickert, <i>The Reconstructed Carmelite Missal: An English Manuscript of the Late XIV Century in the British Museum (Additional 29704-5, 44892)</i> (London: Faber & Faber, 1952)</p><p></p></blockquote><p>It is a masterclass of reconstruction. Not only did she work out the original sequence of the major, historiated initials (a <i>comparatively</i> straighforward task), but was also able, astonishingly, through a painstaking examination of the tiny portions of text preserved on their backs, to put hundreds of the small, minor, initials into their relevant places:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfd80-xZeH4kfBkOBaIndWtnz2o9QR9X0A11o6PRaN2o6W2lriLIw6IRDM20EsDsX6Qo2vKkhbxAuPXEx3_JoK6eTknu5pPyN6_2jw4PAivndBtxfIod9xlSVkZJCbytvs4jDAwhFLUPe7O3FGksy6tMe5obxcij8e0cG1UJ85zBWZWpfI_4acmCS3y3V/s880/PXL_20231014_085717930-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfd80-xZeH4kfBkOBaIndWtnz2o9QR9X0A11o6PRaN2o6W2lriLIw6IRDM20EsDsX6Qo2vKkhbxAuPXEx3_JoK6eTknu5pPyN6_2jw4PAivndBtxfIod9xlSVkZJCbytvs4jDAwhFLUPe7O3FGksy6tMe5obxcij8e0cG1UJ85zBWZWpfI_4acmCS3y3V/w273-h400/PXL_20231014_085717930-sm.jpg" width="273"></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7VMpX631gwUlMsonXS8T-Xgod3IiNV0vqNHyopz-_VMGYTvlZAgYuerYq3YT07f4vZnz9XNcVl-Z1nYoTQqM_gDO4fiMlTn7XJNC1qY7EvLAGeFAaOyhK_HVMdcj8sah2N7RwV1LscdH8nxxyVFcc3zq5e9k90de_o6TmiHalgyKjJFXXhMP2yCWhA5l/s884/PXL_20231014_085747160-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7VMpX631gwUlMsonXS8T-Xgod3IiNV0vqNHyopz-_VMGYTvlZAgYuerYq3YT07f4vZnz9XNcVl-Z1nYoTQqM_gDO4fiMlTn7XJNC1qY7EvLAGeFAaOyhK_HVMdcj8sah2N7RwV1LscdH8nxxyVFcc3zq5e9k90de_o6TmiHalgyKjJFXXhMP2yCWhA5l/w271-h400/PXL_20231014_085747160-sm.jpg" width="271"></a></div><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/10/minor-initials-from-murano-gradual-two.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-39000304826575615132023-10-07T07:10:00.002+00:002023-10-09T08:11:54.328+00:00"Inclitus" Identified<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB68guGifnEQbs_qpP-UH1mJohSEHeASNJbwLsJuWsgL1nLX09ioT3osqaY5qhrsJVk_crN4Ytg5-F1tDrhp-453sb-ZHxNb2lCbb6fWC-4s_58e6FsbLQMCvxYsgfTC03SeUWu_HP4hwwwWQXpzE__lkt3GTygK3egx7SP-vxKJlwy2HmO5XStBN_nJNj/s800/Paris,%20Wildenstein%20M-6030-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB68guGifnEQbs_qpP-UH1mJohSEHeASNJbwLsJuWsgL1nLX09ioT3osqaY5qhrsJVk_crN4Ytg5-F1tDrhp-453sb-ZHxNb2lCbb6fWC-4s_58e6FsbLQMCvxYsgfTC03SeUWu_HP4hwwwWQXpzE__lkt3GTygK3egx7SP-vxKJlwy2HmO5XStBN_nJNj/w268-h400/Paris,%20Wildenstein%20M-6030-sm.jpg" width="268"></a></div><p>A miniature in the Wildenstein collection (shown above), the largest surviving work by the Master of the Murano Gradual, has usually been identified as depicting "Mission to the Apostles". In <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-wildenstein-mission-to-apostles.html">a previous blogpost</a>, I suggested that the subject is instead <i>The Selection of St Matthias</i> (as an apostle, to replace Judas).</p><p></p><p>Even if my suggestion is correct [1], there is still an oustanding puzzle about the miniature: it appears above a single line of text and music, and the text consists of a single word "INCLITUS":</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33PcdcjZ-iIrxwSQ1Ay_fhCCGrppNjF5UuAv2Ajcq_YgkxTGOl193PWdJ3LhbUg4y0yF-db_TkNpeVo5c2m0-MJNupEw3p_L26emtBlVU2TCM-oq6qD8WEr_11BaTx-sw-LwRaFBpO_kbMxMkpX6aFdnGl3254X3X6emspU6As5qecJQ7nGpSbI4_4azU/s967/Paris,%20Wildenstein%20M-6030-det1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="967" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33PcdcjZ-iIrxwSQ1Ay_fhCCGrppNjF5UuAv2Ajcq_YgkxTGOl193PWdJ3LhbUg4y0yF-db_TkNpeVo5c2m0-MJNupEw3p_L26emtBlVU2TCM-oq6qD8WEr_11BaTx-sw-LwRaFBpO_kbMxMkpX6aFdnGl3254X3X6emspU6As5qecJQ7nGpSbI4_4azU/w400-h95/Paris,%20Wildenstein%20M-6030-det1.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p></p><p>No one has ever been able to identify the text this comes from.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/10/inclitus-identified.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-8464446023918340492023-09-02T09:51:00.000+00:002023-09-02T09:51:56.857+00:00The Calendar from a Recently-Broken Italian Breviary<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoMfp-Vn__ofaWyKGzQCLlLjUL2uQ3PcEvu8fgxzlYY03UAVZI0PZ-x4C-Tyc3iYEeYlHqVcDcXU7CiwJ5fXhiy5Sn5plLXO8natLESyJ56qEN4ZmgNo4eOcOZJyz3zS9JI9NdvHSLFPb_IZ0UuxvCRoAsPlASz5D8h4CclmYI3FkHEHcoAF4i7shwO6SV/s1398/a2583911-f11e-4aa0-8bb2-b07001081e40cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="1398" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoMfp-Vn__ofaWyKGzQCLlLjUL2uQ3PcEvu8fgxzlYY03UAVZI0PZ-x4C-Tyc3iYEeYlHqVcDcXU7CiwJ5fXhiy5Sn5plLXO8natLESyJ56qEN4ZmgNo4eOcOZJyz3zS9JI9NdvHSLFPb_IZ0UuxvCRoAsPlASz5D8h4CclmYI3FkHEHcoAF4i7shwO6SV/w400-h295/a2583911-f11e-4aa0-8bb2-b07001081e40cropped.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p></p><p>I have just noticed that Forum Auctions have a calendar in a forthcoming sale (<a href="https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/113710/Calendar-probably-from-a-monumental-Missal-in-Latin-decorated-manuscript-Italy-probably-Perugia-second-half-of-the-14th-century?auction_date=&auction_no=1127&catId=&excl_keyword=&first_name=&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=&ipp=20&keyword=&last_name=&low_estimate=&name=&page_no=2&search_type=&sort_by=lot_no&title=&view=lot_detail">28 September, 2023, lot 24</a>), with a short description and a two-page opening reproduced in the online catalogue (shown above). </p><p>The description tells us that it is a six-leaf quire, bound in "19th century vellum-backed marbled boards", which suggests it was removed from its parent manuscript at least a century ago.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-calendar-from-recently-broken.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-11081111648678615292023-08-13T14:30:00.001+00:002023-08-13T14:31:51.337+00:00Wildenstein Cuttings and Leaves Now Online<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkoUwiCO7jI5bU0y3APBD-YLpflH54QltO7rz9Ttl54xPQIYg1lWAkKpbV20a_yqT92DaIDquXpeJyG5Dv9hXuU02JNetNNYrE6JV7zaLPgRotKTBgHyHGdrW94PPQDMX0hiUp81UwNiwHBOjPBX32J_GJnIqTjshhpkSLxr_7ly2ds1Mfy8knlAv06Gj5/s834/M-6034-det.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="834" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkoUwiCO7jI5bU0y3APBD-YLpflH54QltO7rz9Ttl54xPQIYg1lWAkKpbV20a_yqT92DaIDquXpeJyG5Dv9hXuU02JNetNNYrE6JV7zaLPgRotKTBgHyHGdrW94PPQDMX0hiUp81UwNiwHBOjPBX32J_GJnIqTjshhpkSLxr_7ly2ds1Mfy8knlAv06Gj5/w400-h340/M-6034-det.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">[click to enlarge] [<a href="https://www.marmottan.fr/notice/M-6034/">source</a>]<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>I have lots of blogposts in my draft folder, but all require some more work before they are ready to make public. One concerns the initials of the Murano Gradual, and in the process of compiling it, I found that the Musée Marmottan Monet, which owns a dozen historiated initials and <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-wildenstein-mission-to-apostles.html">a full-page miniature</a>, have digitised the collection within the past year or so and put them online. This seems like something worth sharing now.<p></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/08/wildenstein-cuttings-and-leaves-now.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-43730109474981937132023-07-25T13:26:00.008+00:002023-07-25T13:26:59.559+00:00Two More Erik von Scherling Catalogues Online: A Postscript<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKt_oEzdaigJ0E2aycqkO3NZtium5YwSVlknHjn054n8wia5DwGGM-8QAZvsLQ7VIukq2DWRUdUVgBIFoyMUYwS8DbWc8pxPIZdsi2R4Ab81DxxlFP-_ol4mTXT4YYEJq0gt6sxBOZAJXw1LSHLpf6ff9RCMEnoZ7ARqWVWDfa1VJwbZ0ArUkp6i_9tF_w/s801/PXL_20211228_192253093-det-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="801" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKt_oEzdaigJ0E2aycqkO3NZtium5YwSVlknHjn054n8wia5DwGGM-8QAZvsLQ7VIukq2DWRUdUVgBIFoyMUYwS8DbWc8pxPIZdsi2R4Ab81DxxlFP-_ol4mTXT4YYEJq0gt6sxBOZAJXw1LSHLpf6ff9RCMEnoZ7ARqWVWDfa1VJwbZ0ArUkp6i_9tF_w/s320/PXL_20211228_192253093-det-sm.jpg" width="320"></a></div><p>One of the reasons my <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-more-erik-von-scherling-catalogues.html">previous post</a> may be significant is that it demonstrates that von Scherling kept issuing catalogues of medieval manuscripts during the hiatus between vol. III (1933) and vol. IV (1937) of his <i>Rotulus</i> series.<span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-more-erik-von-scherling-catalogues_25.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-82210884589632248752023-07-23T13:06:00.005+00:002023-07-27T13:45:49.559+00:00Two More Erik von Scherling Catalogues Online<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSKggcF37vTf7676bHGo9nQsCweMnC27HcIuPkO0X9dMSDzVL5d0J9DT87lgQg-1W55Fa9PXDEU4t2kaIQ2cwG_-KSmc1Knt3dOuPtmPb-q3v17lzl4UEeFsZ1Ch5u2k1ii2fxcT3ZipI5z2uT_Wfn9ry2mZWFqgeeZHIY5OL4DO5_STQS9XdZVGtv80R/s754/Cat-tp.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="754" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSKggcF37vTf7676bHGo9nQsCweMnC27HcIuPkO0X9dMSDzVL5d0J9DT87lgQg-1W55Fa9PXDEU4t2kaIQ2cwG_-KSmc1Knt3dOuPtmPb-q3v17lzl4UEeFsZ1Ch5u2k1ii2fxcT3ZipI5z2uT_Wfn9ry2mZWFqgeeZHIY5OL4DO5_STQS9XdZVGtv80R/s320/Cat-tp.png" width="320"></a></div><br>In 2015 I wrote <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2015/01/erik-von-scherling-190756-and-rotulus.html">a blogpost</a> about the Dutch dealer Erik von Scherling, including an attempt to list all his known catalogues, especially the series with the title "<i>Rotulus</i>".<div> <br><div>At my request, and through the kindness of Candice C. Brown at Duke University Libraries, two more of his catalogues have now been digitized, and are available online at Archive.org.<p></p><span></span></div></div><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-more-erik-von-scherling-catalogues.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-81143418648488637062023-06-03T13:15:00.000+00:002023-06-03T13:15:02.243+00:00A Scattered Missal Written by Laurentius<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGR8RS_0gUUZazvZ-rMBqFO6vZJ_6pAdLiNLaftNgP2p6awzbMNKap2dfclRwlKdA3VnfG1YuXXm-kYOCs-Ssd0loziRFJ4fO1CaVRdoIzvaWMIbZBgHbkSF_3mm3HY5RDjazURcfRivHPGa_soScbz-FSm6UcSfO6APpbViJpbkOzoA2PyONtL--B2g/s800/58%20PXL_20211217_205257399-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGR8RS_0gUUZazvZ-rMBqFO6vZJ_6pAdLiNLaftNgP2p6awzbMNKap2dfclRwlKdA3VnfG1YuXXm-kYOCs-Ssd0loziRFJ4fO1CaVRdoIzvaWMIbZBgHbkSF_3mm3HY5RDjazURcfRivHPGa_soScbz-FSm6UcSfO6APpbViJpbkOzoA2PyONtL--B2g/s320/58%20PXL_20211217_205257399-sm.jpg" width="238"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Vassar College, Leaf 58</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>For the past few years I have been working on a catalogue of the medieval and Renaissance manuscripts at Vassar College, due to be published early next year. It has been the spur to many of my investigations into the trade in single leaves in the US in the 20th century, including those sold by Dawson's Book Shop, discussed in a few previous posts (e.g. <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/09/dawsons-of-los-angeles-and-otto-eges.html">here</a>). Just before I submitted the first draft of my text, I made a satisfying provenance discovery, concerning the Missal leaf shown above.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-scattered-missal-written-by-laurentius.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-34447647714775605652023-05-27T21:25:00.006+00:002023-05-29T12:05:41.741+00:00Otto Ege's Terence: An Addendum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_u0W-sDuMuANKjDIuYCEBjANzSw3t3VIzVrJ15yUAx1ym7rdtHnn9dmgnEw81xU7zYCssXsK-m4nRb5cDD2z5L4smYrP7dO5JIF719xnRXjfatDChVs0HOcDH8jzjhBr7wsMEshvma8-BsE0lQm_FmqmXGI82FL2Q5WQMFksgTV8K3zrqqkYjjU69Q/s808/Terence.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="577" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_u0W-sDuMuANKjDIuYCEBjANzSw3t3VIzVrJ15yUAx1ym7rdtHnn9dmgnEw81xU7zYCssXsK-m4nRb5cDD2z5L4smYrP7dO5JIF719xnRXjfatDChVs0HOcDH8jzjhBr7wsMEshvma8-BsE0lQm_FmqmXGI82FL2Q5WQMFksgTV8K3zrqqkYjjU69Q/s320/Terence.jpg" width="229"></a></div><br><div>Last weekend I posted about Otto Ege's manuscript of Terence's <i>Comedies</i>. I reproduced at the top of the page an image of a leaf in a private collection in California that I was able to examine a few weeks ago, thanks to the very kind hospitality of the owner. After he read my post, he contacted me to tactfully draw my attention to the fact that I seemed to have made an oversight.</div><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/05/otto-eges-terence-addendum.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-21376683388857177452023-05-21T10:08:00.003+00:002023-05-21T10:08:37.156+00:00Otto Ege's Terence<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXciMbdHoB2d4PT81MG-IUB_h9lnTyyRqWnldqFUqgr9Z0r1uvd0kvdZAo0DAp8gknRqQJbNxLbHus89HuiFtTBgyMdTJess-4jgmkmEXyZoo_8mx52flZKWVZlTyA1F3KsF-uxF4ir6J7UjSZO42mJW3PDkzJfkediOqoBfh8gi9ALc0eYX0lWjyLg/s800/067-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="568" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXciMbdHoB2d4PT81MG-IUB_h9lnTyyRqWnldqFUqgr9Z0r1uvd0kvdZAo0DAp8gknRqQJbNxLbHus89HuiFtTBgyMdTJess-4jgmkmEXyZoo_8mx52flZKWVZlTyA1F3KsF-uxF4ir6J7UjSZO42mJW3PDkzJfkediOqoBfh8gi9ALc0eYX0lWjyLg/s320/067-sm.jpg" width="227"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Private collection, California</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>Leaves from some of Otto Ege's manuscripts are very easily recognised. He did not sell many leaves of manuscripts written in Humanistic script, for example, and among these, his copy of Terence's <i>Comedies</i> is distinctive (an example is shown above).<span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/05/otto-eges-terence.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-10777543245986394112023-04-23T08:52:00.003+00:002023-04-23T17:09:33.676+00:00A Czech Antiphonal Leaf Dated 1576<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLgUZjs7FfXWlmp-mPkWdOMkyeGs8Z4hAZjZIbxCWwJxcEU7GSVjlMlKsY9VWCIFHHP8zGx02zje6JJeklmuCBdqrLDJnphyV1W40DubNi6PTP0ahijHZ2fRrbH6OzSUSQxTa2tETgYWbObuwJ10GzPGhxhqD2UYZnpEnAn2eP5vpKaWeFgVHJ5STHmw/s886/P1540512-tw-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLgUZjs7FfXWlmp-mPkWdOMkyeGs8Z4hAZjZIbxCWwJxcEU7GSVjlMlKsY9VWCIFHHP8zGx02zje6JJeklmuCBdqrLDJnphyV1W40DubNi6PTP0ahijHZ2fRrbH6OzSUSQxTa2tETgYWbObuwJ10GzPGhxhqD2UYZnpEnAn2eP5vpKaWeFgVHJ5STHmw/w271-h400/P1540512-tw-sm.jpg" width="271"></a></div><p>On a visit to the Houghton Library in 2018 I went through a box of miscellaneous single leaves, containing all sorts of interesting items. One is a Czech Antiphonal leaf, of which a detail is shown above.<span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-czech-antiphonal-leaf-dated-1576.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-85884440357587430982023-04-08T17:03:00.001+00:002023-04-21T09:41:21.890+00:00A 13th-Century Peter Lombard now in Liverpool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22LZhvVImGH9XBfrPGiA7UqlJiBTFEWAI8hSsrRLoQ7fJXztnqsE-QLYqvc_M2rcdzyLmc2TWmCuLBtLVNNPFsy4-oVcSCOA6TGIwcY2IgcZbVJsZ5fxSPWp6_mL51v6b0DKP9uDg9_3XDTnuPJq5hdkQ3fVdOCAxWceEohtfvfkV5LTgjkQDuwnOrg/s800/PXL_20221123_141338002.NIGHT-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="800" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22LZhvVImGH9XBfrPGiA7UqlJiBTFEWAI8hSsrRLoQ7fJXztnqsE-QLYqvc_M2rcdzyLmc2TWmCuLBtLVNNPFsy4-oVcSCOA6TGIwcY2IgcZbVJsZ5fxSPWp6_mL51v6b0DKP9uDg9_3XDTnuPJq5hdkQ3fVdOCAxWceEohtfvfkV5LTgjkQDuwnOrg/w400-h286/PXL_20221123_141338002.NIGHT-sm.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p>This week's post is really just a series of observations, followed by a puzzle to which I hope a reader might be able to offer a solution.</p><p>Some months ago I went to Liverpool, and among the manuscripts I wanted to see was a very fine copy of Peter Lombard's Gloss on the Psalms, produced probably in Oxford in the early 13th century. It is well known, having been catalogued by George Warner when owned by Dyson Perrins, and having been included in Nigel Morgan's Survey of Early Gothic English Illumination [1].</p><p>It is an extremely handsome volume, with wide margins, as can be seen in the image above; here is a close-up of one of the historiated initial:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-zAfScG0OaVIFvTEKK2axIUVlz1OLTYSA-YDehU9Skc0NYwnmWQw_kUnwW1PAzoMlWtAQpme23NuYSItxX6yRaZ3jfzqwayCdlpbCUKa8WIRe5YAxs_qPZPQLYak3fhj5b_PpMfVds5BIgFQXRCLhttsGtvDgksylgGRdFSLOItHkBqCbiZBTL5dQw/s800/PXL_20221123_141434482-det.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="800" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-zAfScG0OaVIFvTEKK2axIUVlz1OLTYSA-YDehU9Skc0NYwnmWQw_kUnwW1PAzoMlWtAQpme23NuYSItxX6yRaZ3jfzqwayCdlpbCUKa8WIRe5YAxs_qPZPQLYak3fhj5b_PpMfVds5BIgFQXRCLhttsGtvDgksylgGRdFSLOItHkBqCbiZBTL5dQw/w400-h310/PXL_20221123_141434482-det.jpg" width="400"></a> </div><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-13th-century-peter-lombard-now-in.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-69546933161286684782023-02-25T10:56:00.007+00:002024-03-27T13:30:51.474+00:00The "De Roucy" Hours?: An Addendum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDZmo5-ZgKWEiHQJoAatjUG0YlUW_qTu-wjvgAdSSGLQT9brRRP9w-a-FvLWigTk9HgDGnguvYUnr0O_xyfIxk0VTJNBuJWVLJz6L7RfmyNmMJxtHajZiv9Xw0qmeyMi6Wmo2dqlM3J81k7OQFHuWD4Mvwx877e8vFLRuo9HHJrVkq3kUMjFoKQHxwvQ/s800/P1440137-det.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="800" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDZmo5-ZgKWEiHQJoAatjUG0YlUW_qTu-wjvgAdSSGLQT9brRRP9w-a-FvLWigTk9HgDGnguvYUnr0O_xyfIxk0VTJNBuJWVLJz6L7RfmyNmMJxtHajZiv9Xw0qmeyMi6Wmo2dqlM3J81k7OQFHuWD4Mvwx877e8vFLRuo9HHJrVkq3kUMjFoKQHxwvQ/s320/P1440137-det.jpg" width="320"></a></div><p></p><p>Last weekend I asked Ellie Jackson, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, for a copy of an article she published last year, and she kindly sent me a PDF: </p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">Eleanor Jackson, ‘Pursuing the Percys: The Original Owners of the Percy Psalter-Hours’, <i>Journal of Medieval History</i>, 48.4 (2022), 524–45</p></blockquote><p>It concerns a late 13th-century Psalter-Hours that I examined nearly 25 years ago when it was in a private collection; it was acquired by the BL in 2019. By coincidence, one of the things it addresses is so relevant to <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-de-roucy-hours.html">the blog I wrote a few weeks ago</a> about the heraldic arms in the so-called "de Roucy" Hours, that I thought it would be worth writing this brief addendum to that post. (If you have not already read it, I suggest you do so before continuing here).</p><p><span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-de-roucy-hours-addendum.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-768930564734946022023-01-22T15:12:00.006+00:002024-03-27T13:33:42.568+00:00The "De Roucy" Hours?<p>In <i>The Book of Hours of Louis De Roucy</i> (RECEPTIO Academic Press, 2022), Rossi writes:</p><blockquote><p>"What is noticeable in this manuscript, apart from the constant presence of owls in the borders, is the heraldic shield of its first owner. It appears with an unusual insistence, on average every ten pages, at least six times in the retrieved leaves, depicting a blue lion on a field of gold, <i>Or a lion azure armed and langued gules</i> (Fig. 8 et seq.)" (p. 22):</p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmlo-j5MKUAX1MvvV_G-kvblcMsRMdOQFPXNVoG9B5a7shzH8M-MY85-FPBaSDq8jgrNjOcgU1vJmiOwKXrp5wHWYMCjzyKLuojpt9q7-ZJKUGfgDP3mk8vo8zr08JpAEX5r-zbUyD8sY2wc8MUwZPzQWCLQ4ljSthfoU4QC9MIIG2mRkLzl_5dEAfQ/s731/Noticeable.png"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="731" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmlo-j5MKUAX1MvvV_G-kvblcMsRMdOQFPXNVoG9B5a7shzH8M-MY85-FPBaSDq8jgrNjOcgU1vJmiOwKXrp5wHWYMCjzyKLuojpt9q7-ZJKUGfgDP3mk8vo8zr08JpAEX5r-zbUyD8sY2wc8MUwZPzQWCLQ4ljSthfoU4QC9MIIG2mRkLzl_5dEAfQ/w400-h86/Noticeable.png" width="400"></a></div><p>Figs. 8a-8f reproduce these six shields:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hIGrz26l5yEYDzccvFAudByfE8Qi2ruvC89MNBQ07RkX3rHaOFMMGsckpoHv3GUoYrKWqCBAKmg6dXnUjlmK16HkpaWAldpAGmGR4zz_3YA_B6eaAc2drGHO8983oPcxy_Dw1v4Lk7IkKkSAeloE_AjGU1rscvXpc-26m3Wz0xml1a9al83N-g6_Yg/s925/8a-f.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="880" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hIGrz26l5yEYDzccvFAudByfE8Qi2ruvC89MNBQ07RkX3rHaOFMMGsckpoHv3GUoYrKWqCBAKmg6dXnUjlmK16HkpaWAldpAGmGR4zz_3YA_B6eaAc2drGHO8983oPcxy_Dw1v4Lk7IkKkSAeloE_AjGU1rscvXpc-26m3Wz0xml1a9al83N-g6_Yg/s320/8a-f.jpg" width="304"></a></div><p>But in my blogpost <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2017/04/more-about-elmhirst-courtanvaux-hours.html">here</a>, I described the background as silver (<i>argent</i>) not gold (<i>or</i>), and note examples of French families that bore these arms:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiblETqt3DD2brM7qZGZ66hZ4CumYN6iNUNxPIovYX7F77r-lIwcXwxNA_Wodv5lQjYcFTzh2PvSUrC6mUCioE6G8OkeroSYZ9ANkocGgMmABE15eNK5-AU9ifOwHDwwEP-e5wGxd_9lOI94p92bkI7bp2rBq2g7iiV_iLQQNzW5Uxh6KKJS-mcnt26rw/s844/arms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="844" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiblETqt3DD2brM7qZGZ66hZ4CumYN6iNUNxPIovYX7F77r-lIwcXwxNA_Wodv5lQjYcFTzh2PvSUrC6mUCioE6G8OkeroSYZ9ANkocGgMmABE15eNK5-AU9ifOwHDwwEP-e5wGxd_9lOI94p92bkI7bp2rBq2g7iiV_iLQQNzW5Uxh6KKJS-mcnt26rw/w400-h196/arms.jpg" width="400"></a></div>I also provided a close-up detail of one example from the manuscript:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3FEiu5mmmIa_-GGAkuZVqiEwyQd6aGKK5KcoVX0vYl0RaC0EOwXK7TjHX6X0zcuo1ltla_oQGfoaz1qM__dEbx6Y0RB_UDnndptdAqIdSIxPeBq3DgNMQ6HVU3zHbadDCOAn-LLbXHqDaiubRCggArmBvIWAsu7z1pjaOegXL0C5EshOmbTNfN8h6WQ/s500/ODArms.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="500" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3FEiu5mmmIa_-GGAkuZVqiEwyQd6aGKK5KcoVX0vYl0RaC0EOwXK7TjHX6X0zcuo1ltla_oQGfoaz1qM__dEbx6Y0RB_UDnndptdAqIdSIxPeBq3DgNMQ6HVU3zHbadDCOAn-LLbXHqDaiubRCggArmBvIWAsu7z1pjaOegXL0C5EshOmbTNfN8h6WQ/s320/ODArms.jpeg" width="320"></a></div><br><div><span></span></div><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-de-roucy-hours.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-40037777630185867662023-01-14T13:35:00.009+00:002024-03-26T15:13:12.161+00:00The RECEPTIO-Rossi Affair, Part VIII: Independent Fact-Checkers<p>I am very aware that there are many people who are not on Twitter, and are therefore not up-to-date with the recent revelations in this ongoing saga. I have not posted anything new here since 29 December, partly because the minutiae may not interest most people, and partly because it would be too time-consuming to report everything that has happened.</p><p>But it seems worth writing a new post now, because of <a href="https://nieuwscheckers.nl/meer-plagiaat-in-werk-zwitserse-onderzoekster/">an article published online</a> yesterday by Peter Burger, of the Dutch fact-checking website 'News Checkers' , based at Leiden University (nieuwscheckers.nl). It is in Dutch, but <a href="https://nieuwscheckers-nl.translate.goog/meer-plagiaat-in-werk-zwitserse-onderzoekster/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp">Google Translate</a> and <a href="https://www.deepl.com/en/translator">Deepl</a> both do a very good job of translating it into English (and, I assume, other languages).</p><p>I recommend that you read the whole article, but the "headline" revelation is that a 40-page article about Michelangelo's poetry, published in 2017 by Rossi in an online Journal of which she was "Editor in Chief", and re-distributed by her as her own work on her <a href="https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/146186/">university website</a>, her <a href="https://www.academia.edu/33533370/La_notion_d_Integumentum_dans_la_po%C3%A9sie_de_Michel_Ange">Academia.edu page</a>, and her <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322817413_La_notion_d%27_Integumentum_dans_la_poesie_de_Michel_Ange">Researchgate page</a>, is very largely copied from an article published in 2004 by Matteo Residori, an Italian scholar writing in French, now of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University.</p><p>According to the Dutch analysis, 77% of Rossi's 2017 text came from Residori's 2004 publication, and another 6% from a French scholar's work, published in 2007.</p><p>In response to this revelation, Rossi published on her Academia.edu page an image, supposedly showing an earlier version of the Michelangelo article, in which due credit is given to Residori (in red) and her own name does not appear:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZgk3iE_JXHn2BGlIEo_60SeGYhLQ014R-g992o4Xt9izQLs0bIumRXpL7NJlrZIuevTJWLF7fcA_XLSsDcYevdmX5Yo3-Oqm8BqNs8DHMI4ABVnjiVGFQ5oREM3BH0w2OLuHLjRc21cB20DDWZPTARE-ZLTf8Gpo-SoOtvVeiLrAIF-MpY_Plm5msAQ/s736/Notion.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="736" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZgk3iE_JXHn2BGlIEo_60SeGYhLQ014R-g992o4Xt9izQLs0bIumRXpL7NJlrZIuevTJWLF7fcA_XLSsDcYevdmX5Yo3-Oqm8BqNs8DHMI4ABVnjiVGFQ5oREM3BH0w2OLuHLjRc21cB20DDWZPTARE-ZLTf8Gpo-SoOtvVeiLrAIF-MpY_Plm5msAQ/w400-h331/Notion.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">[<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230114113427/https://www.academia.edu/94938549/ENERGIE9_NOTION">Source</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230114113427/https://www.academia.edu/94938549/ENERGIE9_NOTION">archived copy</a>)]</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Needless to say, she does not cite her source for this image. Even if it does come from an earlier version of her original online publication, this does not change the fact that Residori's work is not acknowledged in this way in any of the other archived versions of the online publication, which all look like this:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKrZu_9UgZTMDRMfiKFLyAxA_Edk8eKmAXs0AHXa6-GZpPzDuqrpRqjFKdlY6VpAMqu96uZaI-oKooAztpCmbkozNGioMZQ6DjhTfVa8hvW8ldxnC5MMbj1UUEcxYfQkNNrgkFwMZSAZhTRuvNHz0ZOGnS6WhYSQ2W4ksIjbaWyShs-VXysZhDtBGpA/s914/Screenshot%20from%202023-01-14%2012-24-28.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="914" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKrZu_9UgZTMDRMfiKFLyAxA_Edk8eKmAXs0AHXa6-GZpPzDuqrpRqjFKdlY6VpAMqu96uZaI-oKooAztpCmbkozNGioMZQ6DjhTfVa8hvW8ldxnC5MMbj1UUEcxYfQkNNrgkFwMZSAZhTRuvNHz0ZOGnS6WhYSQ2W4ksIjbaWyShs-VXysZhDtBGpA/w400-h260/Screenshot%20from%202023-01-14%2012-24-28.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">[<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200925204323/https://www.energie9.ch/single-post/2017/06/15/La-notion-dintegumentum-dans-la-po%C3%A9sie-de-Michel-Ange">Source</a>]</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div>Residori's name also does not appear in the versions of the article uploaded by Rossi to her various personal and institutional websites:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Kt_0VFcYTu62dSEbuZjJ5h_SXKNA6ahmuUdk72pv8JEzugJz_6IPMkjMmAYtO7N3kMV88PsHeUxSwRuG_6eAHOs5f85ZoMSthYes8a-iYTpQg6BBGNHhFG9guLTAALehNzl5V8VYhdnlLNrlZBqG14F2vH5RWdEPXX_Hy3lkUVD9gU-zjHN0LG8M4A/s814/Screenshot%20from%202023-01-14%2011-21-24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="814" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Kt_0VFcYTu62dSEbuZjJ5h_SXKNA6ahmuUdk72pv8JEzugJz_6IPMkjMmAYtO7N3kMV88PsHeUxSwRuG_6eAHOs5f85ZoMSthYes8a-iYTpQg6BBGNHhFG9guLTAALehNzl5V8VYhdnlLNrlZBqG14F2vH5RWdEPXX_Hy3lkUVD9gU-zjHN0LG8M4A/s320/Screenshot%20from%202023-01-14%2011-21-24.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvibJmz8FwAN7FAQyR7ky7Q0XmEVzqGPTI3DBMzVUMLwYwluaW9rb7ULnVdK6SiliinUdjde1C6UdJWy6QLwcV6cRiunUMeFi4vQ9f0fjO2sJsiV8lRi45jqEJJQpBt4fwWFUB4eAsuKnD2zjuhIs4kfniWkQ8-1pKgbbOAUPcz1mmt0Z9qjhSvM1Vtg/s653/Screenshot%20from%202023-01-14%2011-20-23.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="653" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvibJmz8FwAN7FAQyR7ky7Q0XmEVzqGPTI3DBMzVUMLwYwluaW9rb7ULnVdK6SiliinUdjde1C6UdJWy6QLwcV6cRiunUMeFi4vQ9f0fjO2sJsiV8lRi45jqEJJQpBt4fwWFUB4eAsuKnD2zjuhIs4kfniWkQ8-1pKgbbOAUPcz1mmt0Z9qjhSvM1Vtg/s320/Screenshot%20from%202023-01-14%2011-20-23.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Despite the concrete evidence that she has distributed this article on at least four different websites, without citing the original author in any of them, Rossi writes on her Academia.edu page:</div><blockquote><div>"Qualques [sic] imbéciles, dans sa chasse aux sorcières lancée par Peter Kidd et poursuivie par des crétins sur Twitter, a cru trouver un plagiat dans cet article, auquel manque l'en-tête paru dans le magazine."</div></blockquote><div>She may think that Twitter is populated only by "imbéciles" and "crétins", but it is worth emphasising that I had no part in the most recent revelations, which were entirely the result of investigations by an independent and highly-respected fact-checking organisation.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>[<b>EDIT 15 January 2023</b>: Matteo Residori is Italian, not French as I had written in the original version of this blogpost; I have now corrected this]</div><div><p><br /></p></div></div></div>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-52852401889508754942023-01-05T18:02:00.006+00:002024-03-26T14:45:45.011+00:00The RECEPTIO-Rossi Affair, Part I: The Staff [re-posting, with edits]<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">[<b>6</b><b> Jan. 2023: </b>Google deleted the previous version of this page, so I have removed the parts that were presumably the source of a complaint, and tried to tidy it up in other ways. The old version is archived online elsewhere]</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1334564199896255854" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520.012px;"><div>A <b>lot</b> happened yesterday [Christmas Day], mainly on Twitter, but also on Hacker News, on Academia.edu, and some in private emails (there are more revelations in store if I can get permission to share some private info!).</div><div><br /></div><div>I know that there are many people who have good reasons not to be on Twitter, especially under its current (mis-)management, so this blog is an attempt to <i>summarise</i> recent revelations.<div><br /></div><div>I am not a very sophisticated user of Twitter (I don't follow many people, and my feed is usually very low-volume), so it is very possible that I have failed to see some relevant tweets among the hundreds posted in the past 24 hours or so. Often several people made the same observations independently, and I am not sure who made them first. So: apologies in advance if I seem not to give your contribution the attention it deserves.</div><div><br /></div><div>As mentioned above, there is a lot of material to cover, so I think I'll break it into several blogposts; this one covering the staff listed on the RECEPTIO website.</div><a name="more"></a><div><br /></div><div>It was a private DM that really got the ball rolling for me. I was sent a private message to the effect that at least three of the supposed members of staff of RECEPTIO are represented by stock photos.</div><div><br /></div><div>I had tried finding some of these staff members online (with very limited results, for reasons that later became apparent) but had not yet tried a reverse image search to find where their supposed portrait photos came from. </div><div><br /></div><div>The first to be revealed as a stock photo was "Noemi De Santis":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUFcwxzJKqOk716W_zFXgmweg6F1VUO-TbVbl0oAWY6zneNLfUuetAEUnQ8j2kQwGMyeapZ6bbLmirAimzOpNe8K-LsLsRuChjLmpJSHOWII9K1AxXOJsM1oyITd222Alb4DT-H8v5bdTI07wmYmCip2VUssSn6Gdat2rg3xMeOrxrJRGuUuxqSeUgQ/s815/Noemi.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="815" height="108" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUFcwxzJKqOk716W_zFXgmweg6F1VUO-TbVbl0oAWY6zneNLfUuetAEUnQ8j2kQwGMyeapZ6bbLmirAimzOpNe8K-LsLsRuChjLmpJSHOWII9K1AxXOJsM1oyITd222Alb4DT-H8v5bdTI07wmYmCip2VUssSn6Gdat2rg3xMeOrxrJRGuUuxqSeUgQ/w400-h108/Noemi.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div>My favourite example is the Legal Advisor, attorney "Paolo Enrico Bernasconi":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQPNSb7hgnYeMp32H7kNezn3x-h7exO9TrSks-qTi3pSBjLAy0LgrFmOaJQ3tI0VoRFvH8DX17eSsyFGtmrSBLftHWBphQIdE5m6lmJZLqaMTmcwp7rjiTmLlhRE07P9HcVvK_ZoEEFoXbkoTw3_hg48awFr5s_n9dLzjeBuwKD3sLp1gaFnql4-XmQ/s648/Bernasconi.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="557" height="320" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQPNSb7hgnYeMp32H7kNezn3x-h7exO9TrSks-qTi3pSBjLAy0LgrFmOaJQ3tI0VoRFvH8DX17eSsyFGtmrSBLftHWBphQIdE5m6lmJZLqaMTmcwp7rjiTmLlhRE07P9HcVvK_ZoEEFoXbkoTw3_hg48awFr5s_n9dLzjeBuwKD3sLp1gaFnql4-XmQ/s320/Bernasconi.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="275" /></a></div><div>His image can be found on a number of sites:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfdqyWpM0ZM7jG03FQT7J59CozNGSxW9rqsYy1J7fn_M0DWMmBn-KJnpBxJat-ad31x3adcz50m5jly_AAqEKT8EhSxEJdLFM2DUzCmn3YPJG_PIOLEACBBAE26NskQ2Rbw1bY-1fXqtNI_ntIMtyf1iUQaL2K4dNmpdPFDO7TvXlq98aPo14nTit35Q/s866/Paolo.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="866" height="255" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfdqyWpM0ZM7jG03FQT7J59CozNGSxW9rqsYy1J7fn_M0DWMmBn-KJnpBxJat-ad31x3adcz50m5jly_AAqEKT8EhSxEJdLFM2DUzCmn3YPJG_PIOLEACBBAE26NskQ2Rbw1bY-1fXqtNI_ntIMtyf1iUQaL2K4dNmpdPFDO7TvXlq98aPo14nTit35Q/s320/Paolo.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div>of which this is my favourite:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmeezPVhfOpTqkiKFjabSN2MNuPcEMyCKI-vxArw-ZBivx3QG0PUg9A791peS9t_rs2FneqE10d_mNI--HnhPphzdLvktbKThKgZZGQh5dqilb160kEiU90nLkdavQNHJHIcQ53uJLNMBNHMjy3jUn9r8-RU8Lo0LX7iuY9NdYL_TA5O55_weSb0yn8g/s873/MN.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="873" height="180" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmeezPVhfOpTqkiKFjabSN2MNuPcEMyCKI-vxArw-ZBivx3QG0PUg9A791peS9t_rs2FneqE10d_mNI--HnhPphzdLvktbKThKgZZGQh5dqilb160kEiU90nLkdavQNHJHIcQ53uJLNMBNHMjy3jUn9r8-RU8Lo0LX7iuY9NdYL_TA5O55_weSb0yn8g/s320/MN.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div>But it turns out that he can also help you out with your drug arrest if you are in Texas or New Mexico!:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqX1MmZCkcC_6ht87zZjVvOM6croKXjIq6bsus7lE5YPNvoFvld2i5luEes26R76yWOJxhXwq9Zs3PmRoI1nd7vZz3hPdVte_pEzy7eQwb56my3pmZWyW3qwhoBoECxZUi4Uw2Zc6M_kzJ1nPJ-caYCCGlwUMfDy-YKvLawgdrvsKLsL40gXjfNgul2w/s863/TX.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="863" height="181" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqX1MmZCkcC_6ht87zZjVvOM6croKXjIq6bsus7lE5YPNvoFvld2i5luEes26R76yWOJxhXwq9Zs3PmRoI1nd7vZz3hPdVte_pEzy7eQwb56my3pmZWyW3qwhoBoECxZUi4Uw2Zc6M_kzJ1nPJ-caYCCGlwUMfDy-YKvLawgdrvsKLsL40gXjfNgul2w/s320/TX.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWi1dvbnOFPMUTnM1cVQWLBb-0yIHdgVDXrWYYM9r7ksspjyaJVRKbTz72Lppr7lAl8PcufZY8FGiN1n81ta3N-TKD-AMK8CpBaFZR47rFeAeco_AxRggQqffCD3ubHoR-dLuk3V8Bo3WsS055vSGAazdy8-G3RaGO1oJ_sgLPtUaHeK2QCLTs5ozsQ/s860/NM.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="860" height="182" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWi1dvbnOFPMUTnM1cVQWLBb-0yIHdgVDXrWYYM9r7ksspjyaJVRKbTz72Lppr7lAl8PcufZY8FGiN1n81ta3N-TKD-AMK8CpBaFZR47rFeAeco_AxRggQqffCD3ubHoR-dLuk3V8Bo3WsS055vSGAazdy8-G3RaGO1oJ_sgLPtUaHeK2QCLTs5ozsQ/s320/NM.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div>The same situation applies to several more of RECEPTIO's supposed staff, including "Emma Fleury" and "Hannah Amì":<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCCvnfTmozzdUDTb_6jz6xHC7dF9NPEIK4VTksxxP94zFTwXY2KKVM_uAsesKRqkI9xRw0HeKr4YyeoN0YfREVSkkyRhclgvoWsfB8W4fbqam42HOAUSS9kGCSWnqJ1kduw1oubsZz-I_7LSon64n36s8uv_uyCmP_HtVSE4toY-PEj_Ko6MefzE8RgQ/s803/Emma.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="803" height="240" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCCvnfTmozzdUDTb_6jz6xHC7dF9NPEIK4VTksxxP94zFTwXY2KKVM_uAsesKRqkI9xRw0HeKr4YyeoN0YfREVSkkyRhclgvoWsfB8W4fbqam42HOAUSS9kGCSWnqJ1kduw1oubsZz-I_7LSon64n36s8uv_uyCmP_HtVSE4toY-PEj_Ko6MefzE8RgQ/w400-h240/Emma.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLuegg0T-ncxbKbVRcDuteVdsd-L6GMKX0VsgGVGQYbvBoILbPMXyJ6TYplBnzShTp8m_tLBdRYeBZ0DUICCTN_sYGZwtoVcFBKlLWBzF6kr6pyLJb3HnFJwthzNsKRRLcXS23NrMCbqH1lMBbvGojrh-wzTcyNR5b_oCGKvPPLiH43Adj8_E5f1VENA/s811/Hannah.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="811" height="385" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLuegg0T-ncxbKbVRcDuteVdsd-L6GMKX0VsgGVGQYbvBoILbPMXyJ6TYplBnzShTp8m_tLBdRYeBZ0DUICCTN_sYGZwtoVcFBKlLWBzF6kr6pyLJb3HnFJwthzNsKRRLcXS23NrMCbqH1lMBbvGojrh-wzTcyNR5b_oCGKvPPLiH43Adj8_E5f1VENA/w400-h385/Hannah.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div>Within hours of these observations being made on Twitter, the images of these people started disappearing from the RECEPTIO website:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWn495ETbVJMnN-72UUbqzYJ4rOWBJ05swfLVtecSa1Wz6mlQjrD7XuTKi0at3Kvu-guV6MxmLfVdcYlkIlQiezL5xWK7xwfMtHl3xJ8Mz6J47BrINzZhIpucyVip8B41uxgpfqlYlF1IWIA-SAnL2LipENhWN2m6-z3IXGWGN3QtkYhwP0I88JC_D0A/s809/ValeEmma.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="809" height="243" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWn495ETbVJMnN-72UUbqzYJ4rOWBJ05swfLVtecSa1Wz6mlQjrD7XuTKi0at3Kvu-guV6MxmLfVdcYlkIlQiezL5xWK7xwfMtHl3xJ8Mz6J47BrINzZhIpucyVip8B41uxgpfqlYlF1IWIA-SAnL2LipENhWN2m6-z3IXGWGN3QtkYhwP0I88JC_D0A/w400-h243/ValeEmma.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span>A</span><span> comparison between two archived versions of the RECEPTIO website reveals <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20221130193323/20221225114026/https://www.receptio.eu/operationalstaff" style="color: #993300; text-decoration-line: none;">*extensive* changes on the Operational Staff page</a> this year: 11 people have been removed, and of those that remain several have had their names or titles changed! </span></div><br /><div>Of the people who [at the original time of writing] have <i>not</i> yet been removed from the website, three share a common surname, and Prof. Rossi uses the same surname in legal contexts, as shown by online records. Prof. Rossi's husband later sent me an email confirming that she is his wife, and the other two women whose names and pictures appeared on the RECEPTIO website are their daughters.</div></div><p></p><div><div>The website of the Swiss National Science Foundation lists<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://data.snf.ch/grants/person/518601" style="color: #993300; text-decoration-line: none;"> Carla Rossi's grants</a>, which total of 547,145 Swiss francs (not including any money she was paid for her part in a 3-year project that was granted another 653,176 Swiss francs).</div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><br /></blockquote><div><div><div>She received a grant of 20,000 Swiss francs (about £18,000 or $21,000) for a one- month project to work on the reconstruction of the manuscript which was the subject of my blogpost:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ovERHa0YwtLZkO6hsY5MK-1NKIMgkOo43Tk3kT4uszNYL78-B4P5MCXjrpjvagUPjF0jZakBAmqiZdzfp1brHX9pX4Abr__x4nrDOStB8IPIwRMEWw4lvZ4JwfvVNk0mx4wgj2d_WaavJM5oKEaavaxUvk-quPT5d_rjP6IZPaxKuSYpqM97WS-wQw/s1314/snf.png" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="1314" height="96" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103191000im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ovERHa0YwtLZkO6hsY5MK-1NKIMgkOo43Tk3kT4uszNYL78-B4P5MCXjrpjvagUPjF0jZakBAmqiZdzfp1brHX9pX4Abr__x4nrDOStB8IPIwRMEWw4lvZ4JwfvVNk0mx4wgj2d_WaavJM5oKEaavaxUvk-quPT5d_rjP6IZPaxKuSYpqM97WS-wQw/w400-h96/snf.png" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div>I cannot comment on the quality of the other projects, but certainly <i>this</i> grant resulted in an extremely poor piece of very "deriviative" work.</div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe I'll come back and add more to this post later. I want to end by emphasising that there are certainly some innocent people who have been persuaded to get involved with RECEPTIO, at least one of whom I know to be a genuine scholar, and who knew nothing of what is now being uncovered, so please do not assume that <i>everyone</i> involved with RECEPTIO has the same moral compass as its Director.</div></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /></div></div></div>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-8968124465887524002022-12-28T14:41:00.008+00:002024-03-27T13:45:46.621+00:00The RECEPTIO-Rossi Affair VI: The Backstory<p>Anyone who has read my <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iv-my.html">Part IV "Accusations" blogpost</a> may have wondered about this paragraph, quoting from an email I wrote:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"I was previously unable to find your email address, so I have sent a series of messages to [ <i>name removed</i> ] who contacted me in August, and to the general address at info@receptio.eu, to which Noemi De Santis responded."</p></blockquote><p>Perhaps it looks as if I might be hiding something, so in the interests of transparency I'll provide the backstory.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-vi-backstory.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-55445202126365388652022-12-27T10:06:00.008+00:002024-03-27T13:36:56.231+00:00The RECEPTIO-Rossi Affair IV: My "Accusations"<p>Continuing from this morning's post, the second part of the PDF recently uploaded to Prof. Rossi's Academia.edu page is titled: "Response to Mr Kidd's accusations on his blog".</p><p>If I fail to adequately address her claims below, please let me know. Again, I follow her numbering:</p><p>"<b>1. In his blog post, Peter Kidd quotes two passages from the introductory part of your book that are very similar to passages from his blog. How do you explain this similarity?</b>"</p><p>[Answer:] "<b>We are both quoting Sotheby's 2017 sale catalogue</b>"</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdVlWzl6KfMrCx1Ks_rvaNKbWXG-dqVFQ47IPLHNw4bMC_o3qIUIp8DVDPRWYEiLnU3maCogl-WeTw8A2nMlgzKhnjXAyrvek_NPOdQ0IoNriW5T8ysGWWuAJDxSh2b_tNQsGhfd_203hYAZ6XFZI4pzakEGg1HonQjB6hQ3Uc44IBSS5nkbuDcBOvw/s1485/2017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="1485" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdVlWzl6KfMrCx1Ks_rvaNKbWXG-dqVFQ47IPLHNw4bMC_o3qIUIp8DVDPRWYEiLnU3maCogl-WeTw8A2nMlgzKhnjXAyrvek_NPOdQ0IoNriW5T8ysGWWuAJDxSh2b_tNQsGhfd_203hYAZ6XFZI4pzakEGg1HonQjB6hQ3Uc44IBSS5nkbuDcBOvw/w400-h168/2017.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>First, it is notable that Rossi admits that in her book she is "quoting" the Sotheby's catalogue. And yet she does not cite it as a source.</p><p>Second, the Sotheby's description ends: "More than 20 of the miniatures are reproduced online as 'The Courtanvaux-Elmhirst Hours'": this refers to my page <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/p/the-courtanvaux-hours.html">here</a>, titled "The Courtanvaux-Elmhirst Hours", as would be immediately obvious to anyone who attempted to Google it. So although the Sotheby's description does not <b>name</b> me, it does allow "credit where credit is due".</p><p>Third, one reason that I am not named in the Sotheby's description, is because I wrote it. I thought it would be immodest to implicitly praise my own work by explicitly citing myself as its author.</p><p>"<b>2. Did you consult Mr Kidd's blog during your research?</b>"</p><p>This question does not get its own answer, but is covered by the answer to the next question:</p><p>"<b>3. In a journal article on the same manuscript (TCLA 6/1, Aug. 2022, p. 25), you mention the blogger and his work in relation to the Roucy manuscript. Why is the reference to the blog missing in the book?</b>"</p><p>[Answer:]</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"<b>Simply because the blog was brought to my attention when the drafts of the book were closed, but I mentioned it in the Journal. However, I must honestly say that as the blog did not add anything new or original to what was already being gleaned from the auction catalogues, I did not feel, in the Journal, to quote it on a particular issue. I regret that my secretary succumbed to Kidd's insistent and unpleasant e-mails, which left no room for dialogue, and responded rudely without questioning me. The whole thing happened while I was travelling for the Christmas holidays and she had permission to answer my mail. We never imagined that such squalor could happen.</b>"</p></blockquote><p>I leave readers to make up their own minds about whether they find this credible.</p><p>Let's look at the second part of that statement: "I regret that my secretary succumbed to Kidd's insistent and unpleasant e-mails, which left no room for dialogue, and responded rudely without questioning me. The whole thing happened while I was travelling for the Christmas holidays and she had permission to answer my mail."</p><p>To provide some context, I will explain that in the days before Christmas, I tried to contact Prof. Rossi using the general RECEPTIO email address, info@receptio.eu, pointing out some apparent examples of text and images being re-used from my blog in her book. Someone claiming to be "Noemi De Santis" responded, and I exchanged a few messages with her. On 23 December I wrote to carla.rossi@receptio.eu as follows:</p><blockquote><p>"Dear Prof. Rossi,</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>I was previously unable to find your email address, so I have sent a series of messages to [ <i>name removed</i> ] who contacted me in August, and to the general address at info@receptio.eu, to which Noemi De Santis responded.</p><p>Since I have not been able to contact you directly, I wanted to make sure that you are aware of the correspondence being conducted by Ms De Santis on behalf of Receptio, since she makes a number of legal threats and tells a number of untruths. </p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Best wishes,</p><p>Peter Kidd"</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Even using this email address I got a response from "Noemi":</p><p></p><blockquote><p>"Dear Mr Kidd,</p><p>Please note: I am Professor Rossi's secretary, who is not aware of our correspondence. I manage this mail account.</p><p>Best,</p><p>Noemi"</p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmIZZJn-FtNMwNTzTNtNFKUPb41UGl20oXdyp7z-n9fb3OeQD-Co3AF_W7Jyqua3B_nMbgNFmpQ7fZ3IoxPXCxdNwv-MHG8vKZvyiwyK0OpeMDWwfNSS3uZ0CDNerJbIvZ-Wv8NNniOEedz2mUXzfTvtSNz6pbUYFh4hyQKLLaCq_D1SD9AiUGsNXyvA/s1270/NoemiEmail.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="1270" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmIZZJn-FtNMwNTzTNtNFKUPb41UGl20oXdyp7z-n9fb3OeQD-Co3AF_W7Jyqua3B_nMbgNFmpQ7fZ3IoxPXCxdNwv-MHG8vKZvyiwyK0OpeMDWwfNSS3uZ0CDNerJbIvZ-Wv8NNniOEedz2mUXzfTvtSNz6pbUYFh4hyQKLLaCq_D1SD9AiUGsNXyvA/w400-h90/NoemiEmail.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Questions 4 and 5 do not concern "accusations" of mine, except insofar as I have already addressed the issue of Swiss funding.</p><p>"<b>6. Peter Kidd states on his blog that he was the only one to include a colour scan and publication permission for a section of the manuscript ("miniature depicting St Mark"). He says you originally published this image in its coloured version (fol. 5r).</b>"</p><p>[Answer begins:] "<b>I obtained a bw image of St. Mark's miniature from the German dealer Hartung and not from Kidd’s blog.</b></p><p><b>I did NOT get a colour picture from Hartung, but we first worked with the publisher's graphic designer to colourise the black and white pictures using the "Colorize picture" application, as you can see on page 253 of my edition.</b>"</p><p>It is true that RECEPTIO had a black & white image of the leaf from the German auction house Hartung (as did I: I put it on my website several years ago, and it is still there). But I also later added a colour version of the image.</p><p>Does any reader really believe that a "Colorize picture" application can correctly guess all the colours -- including the figure's clothes, the areas of blank background, and the plumage of the bird in the border -- in an image like this?:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7NCBDfS5KmvlWxG5UY36PjfUwg_0keW6h5zHsIQ0QpK_Rt8Gy7mkADdQmGw2Fi928auA9Y3xBJdf0bI-41d9h1Fm6Gnlpk7fSR-R3nE1H2F35fWUMvk4L67XfLci-8hJBT9jDt2mCjZ4-8qvrCt2AEW8ibkZkp8TAdTAprsIpAwrTZBtK29z37QMEHg/s1033/30-0043.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7NCBDfS5KmvlWxG5UY36PjfUwg_0keW6h5zHsIQ0QpK_Rt8Gy7mkADdQmGw2Fi928auA9Y3xBJdf0bI-41d9h1Fm6Gnlpk7fSR-R3nE1H2F35fWUMvk4L67XfLci-8hJBT9jDt2mCjZ4-8qvrCt2AEW8ibkZkp8TAdTAprsIpAwrTZBtK29z37QMEHg/s320/30-0043.jpeg" width="201" /></a></div>to produce this:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpL86Jk_IHeg1I_i20_4DzBMfgInryxFp_oiOV07ongA6qw-u4ra9VmaHEVbjTZ_4hm2bFMZH8dLDzN2_ajwf99Cna7eiLL7esmTPpTc9OLkRKmosbWKEd35iCwCXhdJUsBP4fWqn6_SmFWBp8bIxMS9FyCwzw6vpmylnGpzcVYeWI4r3HRoqvYz7DA/s640/mark_05.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="431" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpL86Jk_IHeg1I_i20_4DzBMfgInryxFp_oiOV07ongA6qw-u4ra9VmaHEVbjTZ_4hm2bFMZH8dLDzN2_ajwf99Cna7eiLL7esmTPpTc9OLkRKmosbWKEd35iCwCXhdJUsBP4fWqn6_SmFWBp8bIxMS9FyCwzw6vpmylnGpzcVYeWI4r3HRoqvYz7DA/s320/mark_05.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div><p>so accurately matching the original, which looks like this:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTgf5Ldv5VtkFvgmV9OCOhzANXEHs3nVyEmEd2ZK8m2dFHXgJOTd9PuxozfHPgLTG997liyzuYVWGiTDj70PsZReTkkRdciqQeCEPoxv2VW1_xB-qxKKusouDFNWJzg4GL1qH5QvK599oA_C3wVchFn0d772VSN7iN8CiRLmhPzO84q45iNW2Hj9thLA/s640/scMS73r.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="431" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTgf5Ldv5VtkFvgmV9OCOhzANXEHs3nVyEmEd2ZK8m2dFHXgJOTd9PuxozfHPgLTG997liyzuYVWGiTDj70PsZReTkkRdciqQeCEPoxv2VW1_xB-qxKKusouDFNWJzg4GL1qH5QvK599oA_C3wVchFn0d772VSN7iN8CiRLmhPzO84q45iNW2Hj9thLA/s320/scMS73r.jpeg" width="216" /></a></div>Personally, I think it stretches credibility beyond breaking point, especially as Rossi has now admitted that (despite earlier denials), she <i>was</i> aware of my blog site.</div>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-63052801537708542662022-12-26T18:53:00.016+00:002024-03-27T13:42:50.745+00:00The RECEPTIO-Rossi Affair, Part II: The Premises<p>[This post has been removed by Google twice now, doubtless at the request of you-know-who, but both times Google reinstated it after checking that it does not break any of their rules] <br /></p><p>This can be read independently of <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html">Part I</a>. If you have an interest in medieval manuscripts, academic publishing, copyright and "fair use", etc., I suggest you read the <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html">original blogpost</a> (which has now been updated) as well.</p><p>MANY people on Twitter have provided various kinds of expertise and sleuthing skills, but I think I was the first person to notice, before 8am on Christmas Day, something curious about the London address of RECEPTIO:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlT1O2hppIrm3vntEa2mo4lCvRTaYyriEG3Bfy8zMXTF7kzKN5odIWEKwGA5CqRSnu9v1xH8wQwY5X5ZQ2W1K5yp_Fl-psygPKjnrU12fbONybqn-reg92M6TY06p98MVOAFOrx9cbKwRrI9-gn9m3H-JZY1Us9Ekbk_8ZggZemuWwd5MAnQ-zva9jw/s804/premises.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="804" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlT1O2hppIrm3vntEa2mo4lCvRTaYyriEG3Bfy8zMXTF7kzKN5odIWEKwGA5CqRSnu9v1xH8wQwY5X5ZQ2W1K5yp_Fl-psygPKjnrU12fbONybqn-reg92M6TY06p98MVOAFOrx9cbKwRrI9-gn9m3H-JZY1Us9Ekbk_8ZggZemuWwd5MAnQ-zva9jw/s320/premises.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Here are the individual images I attached to that tweet:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-oXIfPI3ZBOuhZVRyznY2KXP_Hx8Y4TtLTMOVLMDmpRRzfc22J8myZhzU6VBPKTxWy-Xvf_uggNLPHRVHHbCQztdAeRa-6Dnl-7mhjvbRS1mlCYSqSk6ey9J3Otp1haaj1qhpFP96v9OG9bSH2w2m39c1O6MFfFzvHI8KsY0mruCoFXs29iyQh9NixQ/s343/address.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="343" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-oXIfPI3ZBOuhZVRyznY2KXP_Hx8Y4TtLTMOVLMDmpRRzfc22J8myZhzU6VBPKTxWy-Xvf_uggNLPHRVHHbCQztdAeRa-6Dnl-7mhjvbRS1mlCYSqSk6ey9J3Otp1haaj1qhpFP96v9OG9bSH2w2m39c1O6MFfFzvHI8KsY0mruCoFXs29iyQh9NixQ/s320/address.jpg" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijod79hPYMk9lx7kupr9duMIg1zE2FUFgY2cdzeVJrwSMYGQD5d664XA4Tl0O8VEF9qor1eqPGlucy6YM0xUeeQ3m31AWXnKq9h4JbQ3EYqrSCSlGGt-nzkEb9tIMXTe9BSUCUde5HY1Aj4f-0mnl-jwmGwr68JoelyA_-8beSjRiYFfbfeGYLAX3ryg/s974/20-22Wenlock%20Rd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="974" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijod79hPYMk9lx7kupr9duMIg1zE2FUFgY2cdzeVJrwSMYGQD5d664XA4Tl0O8VEF9qor1eqPGlucy6YM0xUeeQ3m31AWXnKq9h4JbQ3EYqrSCSlGGt-nzkEb9tIMXTe9BSUCUde5HY1Aj4f-0mnl-jwmGwr68JoelyA_-8beSjRiYFfbfeGYLAX3ryg/s320/20-22Wenlock%20Rd.jpg" width="320" /></a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QbJzhnEyXGqPn7oLdyWgXdP69LAvMXSYZV17HzsNtDOEGJQNsWDE23qQv0nuO_NhApX7T4WpW3cCtAAfIlhtgyVXxG8v1P9Pt1zMMOiMSoENarveezbw_ggfxf9fwPTyvTDBVFsJIOKZmvth89slGDB-KMsfw2Ed_5DjaanLLJ95ECJ6WgvlznLq5Q/s623/impression.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="621" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QbJzhnEyXGqPn7oLdyWgXdP69LAvMXSYZV17HzsNtDOEGJQNsWDE23qQv0nuO_NhApX7T4WpW3cCtAAfIlhtgyVXxG8v1P9Pt1zMMOiMSoENarveezbw_ggfxf9fwPTyvTDBVFsJIOKZmvth89slGDB-KMsfw2Ed_5DjaanLLJ95ECJ6WgvlznLq5Q/s320/impression.jpg" width="319" /></a> </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjder2sV4Pvoi2onhd2uqQJn-7AathgcMP7UVnFowiQh4CbphgoGE-PVA6hxtcQplCwDJe23GMJSZcmqNj761AMwPCtr4wx-I6gTQkYbsccUKHhHFay2aRzZ6nrE6VKocU1wpPmZ3YaIiS78jtptfx7mRpDm0auGTAoKlvia8r2yGwG9GszdCUOxWAGeg/s777/FkzsXnTWQAEMTU5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="636" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjder2sV4Pvoi2onhd2uqQJn-7AathgcMP7UVnFowiQh4CbphgoGE-PVA6hxtcQplCwDJe23GMJSZcmqNj761AMwPCtr4wx-I6gTQkYbsccUKHhHFay2aRzZ6nrE6VKocU1wpPmZ3YaIiS78jtptfx7mRpDm0auGTAoKlvia8r2yGwG9GszdCUOxWAGeg/s320/FkzsXnTWQAEMTU5.jpeg" width="262" /></a></div><br /><div>Most of the images used on the RECEPTIO website are either fake or deliberately misleading. Here for example, is their business sign (the filename is "fotocasaeditrice_JPG", Italian for 'publishing house photo'):<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTyO1089zUcmMtZp98bhIxTI9EFuhgKG_aikYlXlxPgNqC0CfymsIRoD-Z6dQVFjsfZCKWtZiHZTS6Z_YXBQeXLOMcNewzb_6zDw0ss3KS1UF9R8DC3t428e5nLFpTHQEv8W4StkBuT52jnr3HceKt0LqP97mg0zVPizOBF2PfkyTScDuGY0gogMExw/s802/fotocasaeditrice_JPG.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="802" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTyO1089zUcmMtZp98bhIxTI9EFuhgKG_aikYlXlxPgNqC0CfymsIRoD-Z6dQVFjsfZCKWtZiHZTS6Z_YXBQeXLOMcNewzb_6zDw0ss3KS1UF9R8DC3t428e5nLFpTHQEv8W4StkBuT52jnr3HceKt0LqP97mg0zVPizOBF2PfkyTScDuGY0gogMExw/s320/fotocasaeditrice_JPG.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>But this is just an edited version of a stock photo; here are other variants:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgluXQ-VWO6tXJFP_E_1XwqegD9qZXaU09qoeupUHNwzW5iiC5P22O7gEMKuQISobPv_3Dnr85rmv7gDer1dxFFilusY4sHdrjxrXVB5j8GsFn3kFPexAYuw1MrbiZe7ekM_NGM88K4rH48gXb4Xdoj-GBtpHaISaOdrLJTdKUi20Ufj6h3bqXohdOL8Q/s250/images.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="250" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgluXQ-VWO6tXJFP_E_1XwqegD9qZXaU09qoeupUHNwzW5iiC5P22O7gEMKuQISobPv_3Dnr85rmv7gDer1dxFFilusY4sHdrjxrXVB5j8GsFn3kFPexAYuw1MrbiZe7ekM_NGM88K4rH48gXb4Xdoj-GBtpHaISaOdrLJTdKUi20Ufj6h3bqXohdOL8Q/w320-h257/images.jpeg" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqg4HD1t_9vM0PMK48-NGzx0-lCO87MVAMTnQtN-hKsQkzsarn-E7E2EEQHM76MnNbIraUZJudJsXp_h-0pxn9v_h9gc-cyhfAvv26D6hisVMOn5aX6UNcsNbFPbNK3a0TAHPamHGjDTT0kQFXDUvHD7lbOoYtTurW9aFFzRbFbEjghBep1vxJaAAJg/s824/yufik.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="824" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqg4HD1t_9vM0PMK48-NGzx0-lCO87MVAMTnQtN-hKsQkzsarn-E7E2EEQHM76MnNbIraUZJudJsXp_h-0pxn9v_h9gc-cyhfAvv26D6hisVMOn5aX6UNcsNbFPbNK3a0TAHPamHGjDTT0kQFXDUvHD7lbOoYtTurW9aFFzRbFbEjghBep1vxJaAAJg/s320/yufik.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggKlMCql_SmPKtmPqdH5XhxIqfQYI_MGzAG-hBWrJvYCMaP90u_AE58eXAYFY389Rgp9JFS4uLSWQ6MGhBizZt5IUSBE-jEjqoKf5dMmCFyOcvch53pL4ZfSTxlIlp5Sx1J8Dt5sYqLUU-5_JkckhkkVQkui_5s1Ea1wQyyRcuWdlB8utMNGhtBn54ug/s676/dk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="676" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggKlMCql_SmPKtmPqdH5XhxIqfQYI_MGzAG-hBWrJvYCMaP90u_AE58eXAYFY389Rgp9JFS4uLSWQ6MGhBizZt5IUSBE-jEjqoKf5dMmCFyOcvch53pL4ZfSTxlIlp5Sx1J8Dt5sYqLUU-5_JkckhkkVQkui_5s1Ea1wQyyRcuWdlB8utMNGhtBn54ug/s320/dk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRJkErH_X_zE1os4bFtZesVRfFHnOdxqccKMqguaubEu5rghnLWcUMFw96BuPtEnVi2ElZDuM-qxU-rMzfhhD9OuHyvfFUfI8AaAKn3C2Q9tg0Xcu74XebRthuz95fGFhEZ5sk1I6j6-pz_KvdTfSG7I_7TEOY3ylT7W4gLOPenuG57dlYFSRmc8RAw/s875/signs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="875" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRJkErH_X_zE1os4bFtZesVRfFHnOdxqccKMqguaubEu5rghnLWcUMFw96BuPtEnVi2ElZDuM-qxU-rMzfhhD9OuHyvfFUfI8AaAKn3C2Q9tg0Xcu74XebRthuz95fGFhEZ5sk1I6j6-pz_KvdTfSG7I_7TEOY3ylT7W4gLOPenuG57dlYFSRmc8RAw/w400-h280/signs.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Other bloggers then found much more. The address is used by some disreputable companies who appeared in the so-called Paradise Papers [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers">Wikipedia</a>]. Not every company that used this address was doing anything illegal, but it is probably safe to suggest that most of them wanted to hide behind a fake/misleading London address which they could use for registering their company and receiving "official government mail". As the owning <a href="https://blog.companiesmadesimple.com/registered-office/20-22-wenlock-road-registered-office/">company website</a> states, using such an address allows you to avoid appearing "small-time or amateur". In other words, to represent yourself as something else if you are, in fact, small-time or amateur.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>As far as I can determine from the website, it is not possible to actually run a business at this address. Meeting rooms are available at <a href="https://www.workhubmadesimple.com/">£35 per hour</a>, although they are "currently unavailable due to Covid-19".</div><div><br /></div><div>Here is the front door on Google Streetview:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOzNgaGpmOr65I2IMrxUuW7Rp_wDXOci7fatQNZv92VN-tpHtJBu5Tu1qjbd_Fd_67UeNcjhcgGghELVbAenv13udrfrBsYtJLlnoGqm2TZK2mH93rynDrRcHy0L6f8gKqtGelkEjZrwJqYXYvRTpoupgAln-2yAuydPAgPq0IWDSB-5wKOvHFPqGYw/s790/2022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="764" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOzNgaGpmOr65I2IMrxUuW7Rp_wDXOci7fatQNZv92VN-tpHtJBu5Tu1qjbd_Fd_67UeNcjhcgGghELVbAenv13udrfrBsYtJLlnoGqm2TZK2mH93rynDrRcHy0L6f8gKqtGelkEjZrwJqYXYvRTpoupgAln-2yAuydPAgPq0IWDSB-5wKOvHFPqGYw/s320/2022.jpg" width="309" /></a></div></div><div>It seems to consist of a reception area on the ground floor, below five floors of apartments:</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsIvd7k-u25vQVkoLgNTgd5YKNGZEc4d7soGmnrfF8KbKGO8ojRujHJqaIfUZiG7ru1rSHRK3Q6GRzkEbB631meS-BeruRTB40cA2dUfPMPCF9Ui7q-sdidRQ8lhfOSA0vLSc8mCK9q1SJ2JU9_aKMHgHz2pLWDIYjf737ZWZRuNc1eChGZ9t_IDa4A/s847/20-22.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="631" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsIvd7k-u25vQVkoLgNTgd5YKNGZEc4d7soGmnrfF8KbKGO8ojRujHJqaIfUZiG7ru1rSHRK3Q6GRzkEbB631meS-BeruRTB40cA2dUfPMPCF9Ui7q-sdidRQ8lhfOSA0vLSc8mCK9q1SJ2JU9_aKMHgHz2pLWDIYjf737ZWZRuNc1eChGZ9t_IDa4A/w298-h400/20-22.jpg" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">[<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Workhub+MadeSimple/@51.530798,-0.0939042,3a,90y,66.31h,114.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scFh0oKF_yQJoyiqgoyT-NQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x48761b50f856f1a7:0x250bd3250ea4024f!8m2!3d51.5308743!4d-0.0937284">Source</a>]</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>I was just about to add some misleading images from RECEPTIO's website showing their London Headquarters, but they seem to have been removed in the last few minutes. I'll add them here if they reappear ...</div><div><br /></div><div>Ah! Here's one I had saved:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyb6dK903q6oXhQDr7tJ84JvXcMPCO15HqddgPnD3R1k2--Zl0ghiwlTPb57fts0aZrnKW3XND1rS0fgtyr03teuVtYtZKgN9Pia4cbF5cNNFBnwZfLxubEvz91Zt2IbWnhHZDxeFOFkcvtFs7SFJHWwzz6iSl0uDTY4BKaeLgb5BjO8tTEg_uHzVgPg/s830/Screenshot%20from%202022-12-25%2021-28-22.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="830" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyb6dK903q6oXhQDr7tJ84JvXcMPCO15HqddgPnD3R1k2--Zl0ghiwlTPb57fts0aZrnKW3XND1rS0fgtyr03teuVtYtZKgN9Pia4cbF5cNNFBnwZfLxubEvz91Zt2IbWnhHZDxeFOFkcvtFs7SFJHWwzz6iSl0uDTY4BKaeLgb5BjO8tTEg_uHzVgPg/s320/Screenshot%20from%202022-12-25%2021-28-22.png" width="320" /></a></div>It's pretty different from the Meeting Rooms described above:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABnu8RmdPDrPOVmkc4-nJH7mWYnXu1znAC9iMkmYPVytG5FbJh2vMiEcBJRR-J1suVtcluXcfXO187ttjIs4eWIZCGjJJGVMt2APvRB28dFijTfGOq0VqJZZ8xjmMk8QB3ZSzjlbPoBHAFl3gju7UFzG1dG-YLt3r1XPElJlWpDXzRatgc5g_rqDfdA/s1292/MtgRms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1292" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABnu8RmdPDrPOVmkc4-nJH7mWYnXu1znAC9iMkmYPVytG5FbJh2vMiEcBJRR-J1suVtcluXcfXO187ttjIs4eWIZCGjJJGVMt2APvRB28dFijTfGOq0VqJZZ8xjmMk8QB3ZSzjlbPoBHAFl3gju7UFzG1dG-YLt3r1XPElJlWpDXzRatgc5g_rqDfdA/w400-h258/MtgRms.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-92232032287936480272022-12-24T14:08:00.011+00:002024-03-26T13:40:53.078+00:00"Nobody cares about your blog!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">[<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Edit, 26 Dec. 2022, 9am</b>: For anyone reading this for the first time, please note that <b>a lot</b> happened yesterday (Christmas Day) on Twitter, with many people contributing new information and insights concerning RECEPTIO. I will try to update the blog below later today [Edit: I have now done this], and will also aim to write another blog to document the reflect new revelations</span>]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOAuFO1z4ULAh_AHxzcBkqXy0GFi4dUXPYasMS4kabJeDY4dIKf-XZLEIcgG7N-TR7hyV16aJIYxxfaaZR-miXK9SJPcjkUFS8oaIB00-JJGwZeqUCqsyVERYoP8uG0xp4JYKEH8okoYv6dxKmbM0q128wP40m7362ggjP6OHM-oFKgfCwYq0ppzBWQ/s723/cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="454" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOAuFO1z4ULAh_AHxzcBkqXy0GFi4dUXPYasMS4kabJeDY4dIKf-XZLEIcgG7N-TR7hyV16aJIYxxfaaZR-miXK9SJPcjkUFS8oaIB00-JJGwZeqUCqsyVERYoP8uG0xp4JYKEH8okoYv6dxKmbM0q128wP40m7362ggjP6OHM-oFKgfCwYq0ppzBWQ/s320/cover.jpg" width="201"></a></div><p>The title of my blog today is a quotation from an email I received yesterday from Noemi De Santis of RECEPTIO, the Research Centre for European Philological Tradition (website <a href="https://www.receptio.eu/">here</a>).</p><p>It comes at a very opportune moment, because this week marked the 10th anniversary of the week I started blogging fairly regularly: since December 2012 I have posted an average of about 45 blogs per year, and I was wondering how to mark this milestone. I hope that the following blog will provide some entertainment for the Christmas holidays!<span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-30063951720264773812022-12-10T14:57:00.002+00:002022-12-10T14:57:56.749+00:00Another Leaf from the MdM and AdM Hours Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0HJVHox_Edn61LLSt2OHbbsS_kYsYKC4OJO9ZCxEOj7N9pvS6nZ1W2SZJFIgmYo8yRjuQnhGFjno4lGZr78BhhUseYprn5cVleEEyQWvf7wKtHrti1a0tyXiDjniqK_q2gG340FoJ7gBIq2-GzboJ5v6RkKtk7eD_PanbluoQVZzYOMslRcJf769nxA/s800/PXL_20220807_084025807-det.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="800" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0HJVHox_Edn61LLSt2OHbbsS_kYsYKC4OJO9ZCxEOj7N9pvS6nZ1W2SZJFIgmYo8yRjuQnhGFjno4lGZr78BhhUseYprn5cVleEEyQWvf7wKtHrti1a0tyXiDjniqK_q2gG340FoJ7gBIq2-GzboJ5v6RkKtk7eD_PanbluoQVZzYOMslRcJf769nxA/w400-h175/PXL_20220807_084025807-det.jpeg" width="400"></a></div><p>Regular readers will know that I have been trying to trace leaves from a late 15th-century Book of Hours with unusual initials "MdM" and "AdM" in some of the margins (see <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/05/mdm-and-adm.html">here</a>, <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/08/more-leaves-from-mdm-and-adm-hours.html">here</a>, and <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/10/two-more-leaves-of-mdm-and-adm-hours.html">here</a>).<span></span></p><p>One that has so far eluded me was reproduced in Maggs Bros., Catalogue 437: <i>Books of Art and Allied Subjects</i> (1923), no. 1159 plate LXI (of which a detail is shown above):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Qx73iZSogAXmswTzZFNaRQxGIG6CTtxBNakCrZ1vTD-1DZAVnO5x2XAnm_yqlVEPeztmC3qGSrqqQYI1Nw31WZjAJL-tazjLWD9r1ejIV3z5-e-YsG3QvbpH4ihIaHbqBelckqv_skVPDQGTJvQlHbmoGitGUFmrBhSsqfk_Vv_6wt-BbsP2Rg-Npg/s689/PXL_20220807_084025807-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Qx73iZSogAXmswTzZFNaRQxGIG6CTtxBNakCrZ1vTD-1DZAVnO5x2XAnm_yqlVEPeztmC3qGSrqqQYI1Nw31WZjAJL-tazjLWD9r1ejIV3z5-e-YsG3QvbpH4ihIaHbqBelckqv_skVPDQGTJvQlHbmoGitGUFmrBhSsqfk_Vv_6wt-BbsP2Rg-Npg/s320/PXL_20220807_084025807-sm.jpg" width="232"></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/another-leaf-from-mdm-and-adm-hours.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-23067490988172719752022-12-03T17:49:00.002+00:002022-12-09T15:07:21.440+00:00A Breviary Written at Lucca in 1464<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9eNolQ_YEOjaZp6L9PbkhcdQf9E7XvkfFMJ4CaxTtbbG-nBv74Me88p7MfjhlhAK13AzRi8ANA2HUIOBanbu5hss9mSqVtRcfm-zCfu3SRV3cbHksNCik0pfUm59gxqErR5MaYIFQmJe1mNzbfY6Un3YBdWNHBI1-EPf3L5HgkJy5gz5Q9j_gxEWNg/s614/2021%20Dec%205%20EVstamps%20lot%20135%20img-sm.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9eNolQ_YEOjaZp6L9PbkhcdQf9E7XvkfFMJ4CaxTtbbG-nBv74Me88p7MfjhlhAK13AzRi8ANA2HUIOBanbu5hss9mSqVtRcfm-zCfu3SRV3cbHksNCik0pfUm59gxqErR5MaYIFQmJe1mNzbfY6Un3YBdWNHBI1-EPf3L5HgkJy5gz5Q9j_gxEWNg/s320/2021%20Dec%205%20EVstamps%20lot%20135%20img-sm.jpeg" width="261"></a></div><p>For a few years I have been aware of leaves of a Breviary (of which an example is shown above) which had a colophon with the name of the scribe, and the place and date of completion: Lucca on 22 December 1464. But searches for the terms <span style="font-family: courier;">Breviary</span>, <span style="font-family: courier;">Lucca</span>, and <span style="font-family: courier;">1464</span> produce surprisingly few hits for institutional websites: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=breviary+lucca+1464&oq=breviary+lucca+1464">most of the search results</a> are for online dealer listings. I hope this blogpost will make the manuscript better known and lead to new identifications.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-breviary-written-at-lucca-in-1464.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com8