Google's Blogspot blogging templates allow for rarely-changing content, such as an "About" or a "Contact" page. I plan to experiment by using such pages to keep track of identified leaves and cuttings from dismembered books. In the past I have given lists of such leaves in blog-posts (e.g. here and here) and then added a series of addenda, when I learn of new leaves.
There are several dismembered books that I am actively working on as part of a catalogue of a private collection, and I hope that by making my lists available, it will encourage readers to send new information. To take one example, I currently know the whereabouts of only about a dozen of the 40-ish cuttings from the Burkhardt-Wildt Apocalypse, but I am sure that readers will know about others.
Among the manuscripts I anticipate tackling are:
- Spanish Antiphonary:
- Bernard Gui, Genealogy of the Kings of France:
- The Burckhardt-Wildt Apocalypse miniatures:
- Cuttings from a Gradual, from a Cistercian house perhaps in or near Cologne:
- The Ghistelles Hours:
- The Hungerford Hours:
- The Knyvett Hours:
- The Loredan Hours
- Prayerbook with miniatures by Jacques de Luxembourg
- Psalter from nothern England:
- Psalter from Seville:
- Psalter-Hours made for a nun
- Sacramentary from Kremsmunster:
Re Burckhardt-Wildt Apocalypse: you may know these already, but there are two at the Detroit Institute of Art (see my blog on Detroit, https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/manuscript-road-trip-dragons-in-detroit/), and I saw two last year at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (I'll send you the photos if you don't have them already)
ReplyDeleteMany thanks; I knew of Detroit, but I did not know of the Hill Museum & Library ones. The only other ones I know in public collections at the Wadsworth Athenaeum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Morgan Library; Walters Art Museum; and Stockholm National Museum.
DeleteHello, I would like to ask whether you have seen a reproduction of the Fourth Horseman miniature from the Burckhardt Wildt Apocalypse. (great blog btw Peter.)
DeleteI only know the black and white reproduction in the 1983 Sotheby's auction catalogue. It is extremely similar to the BL miniature here: www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMINBig.ASP?size=big&IllID=60242
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