I have just noticed that Wikipedia has a category "English book and manuscript collectors".
Of course the entries are of variable quality, but that for Thomas Martin of Palgrave, for example, based on an out-of-copyright edition of the DNB, is reasonably thorough and has a good bibliography.
Addenda and Corrigenda
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Membra disiecta
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Monday, 3 January 2011
Pecia.fr
The always-interesting Pecia blog has the beginnings of an investigation into a book of hours apparently once owned by a member of the Largez family:
Sur la piste d'un Livre d'heures à l'usage de l'abbaye Notre-Dame de Daoulas (Finistère)
It was more recently in the collection of George Weare Braikenridge (1775-1856) 'perhaps the largest collector of general and local antiquities in the West of England', a catalogue of whose collection, containing a few books of hours, is online.
Sur la piste d'un Livre d'heures à l'usage de l'abbaye Notre-Dame de Daoulas (Finistère)
It was more recently in the collection of George Weare Braikenridge (1775-1856) 'perhaps the largest collector of general and local antiquities in the West of England', a catalogue of whose collection, containing a few books of hours, is online.
Sunday, 2 January 2011
Unrecorded printed book from Oseney
The CUL incunabula provenance blog now has an RSS feed
Laura Nuvoloni, who is cataloguing the Cambridge University Library incunabula, has a very interesting occasional blog about her discoveries.
I used to visit sporadically in the hope of finding new posts, but there is now an RSS feed at the top of the page, so it is easy to subscribe to new posts and/or comments.
I used to visit sporadically in the hope of finding new posts, but there is now an RSS feed at the top of the page, so it is easy to subscribe to new posts and/or comments.
An unrecorded Bible from Norwich
In the Catalogue de la bibliothèque et des collections de feu Crosse, directeur du Journal de conchyliologie dont la vente aux enchères publiques ... du 20 au 30 novembre 1899 ... Paris, lot 27 on p. 32 is the following:
Saturday, 1 January 2011
Guiffrey's sigla for the Duke de Berry's inventories
Going straight to an entry in the edited inventories of the Duke de Berry without reading the introduction can lead to some confusion.
Guiffrey's base-text (in his vol. I) is the manuscript completed on 31 January 1413 (nos. 1-1099), with additions made until the Duke's death in 1416 (nos. 1100-1251).
Following the main text of each entry he often adds in smaller type the manuscript's marginal additions. He also often refers to the equivalent item as recorded in the other inventories (in his vol. II): that of 1401-03 (the MSS being recorded in 1402); a list of gifts given to the Ste-Chapelle, Bourges from 1404-07; and the posthumous inventory of 1416-c.1418. There is usually also a valuation, expressed in "liv.[res] t.[ournois]":
Guiffrey's base-text (in his vol. I) is the manuscript completed on 31 January 1413 (nos. 1-1099), with additions made until the Duke's death in 1416 (nos. 1100-1251).
Following the main text of each entry he often adds in smaller type the manuscript's marginal additions. He also often refers to the equivalent item as recorded in the other inventories (in his vol. II): that of 1401-03 (the MSS being recorded in 1402); a list of gifts given to the Ste-Chapelle, Bourges from 1404-07; and the posthumous inventory of 1416-c.1418. There is usually also a valuation, expressed in "liv.[res] t.[ournois]":