Sunday 30 December 2018
Cuttings by the Monza Master [I]
Saturday 22 December 2018
Byzantine Evangelist Portraits
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Saturday 15 December 2018
The Dispersal of the Forrer Collection (and a Postscript on the Arenberg Psalter)
Many of the leaves and cuttings I encounter can be traced back to the collection of Robert Forrer, who we have encountered in several previous posts. I know that he sold individual items, as well as substantial collections, to Museums. In 1899, for example, he sold a collection of 1,200 specimens of early textiles to the V&A Museum. But I cannot recall having found information about how he dispersed his collection of manuscript leaves and cuttings.
Sunday 9 December 2018
The Pontifical of Michel Guibé [II]
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Saturday 1 December 2018
The Pontifical of Michel Guibé [I]
In 2007, after a day in spent looking at illuminated leaves and cuttings at the Princeton Museum of Art, I walked past a general antiques shop and noticed a framed leaf of a late 15th-century French illuminated manuscript in the window.
I have not been back to the shop since then, but it looks as if one of these leaves, in its simple gold frame, was still hanging inside the window of the shop as recently as August 2017, when Google StreetView captured these images :
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Detail of the upper right corner of the left shop window [source] |
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