The Illuminated Cuttings and Leaves of Victor Goldschmidt (d. 1933), of Heidelberg

The collection of illuminations of Victor Goldschmidt [Wikipedia], of Heidelberg (shown above) is not well known. Perhaps the best known item in it was a miniature of St Gregory the Great, from an 11th-century Moralia in Job, which was published by Georg Swarzenski and Rosy Schilling, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz, 2 vols. (Joseph Baer, 1929), p. 3 no. 3 and Taf. IV, and is now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 

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More than 40 further items in the collection are represented by black and white photos in what used to be called FotoMarburg, now absorbed into the Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur based at Marburg University. These include a leaf with a fine 12th-century inhabited initial 'Q':  

This appeared at Sotheby's, 6 July 2000, lot 9, not recognising the Goldschmidt provenance: 

It was next in Dr Jörn Günther Antiquariat, Catalogue 6: Miniatures and Illuminated Leaves from the 12th to the 16th Centuries (Hamburg, 2002), no. 3, reproducing for the first time the whole leaf: 

 

The collection as a whole has now been given the detailed study that it has long deserved. This week Regina Cermann kindly sent me a link to her recently published article: 

‘Vom Hölzchen aufs Stöckchen: Neues zu einem codex discissus mit Sigismund Meisterlins “Augsburger Chronik” nebst Bausteinen zur Rekonstruktion der Graphischen Sammlung der Heidelberger von Portheim-Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Kunst’, in EC-Beiträge zur Erforschung deutschsprachiger Handschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Reihe I, Konferenzbeiträge und Studien, Band IX: Beiträge der Tagung Quelle und Deutung IX am 20. November 2024, ed. by Balázs Sára, Antiquitas, Byzantium, Renascentia, 59 (Eötvös-József-Collegium, 2025), pp. 43–156.

The whole volume is available as a PDF here, or you can download just Regina's article here. Although the body of the article concerns cuttings from a single 15th-century German manuscript on paper, there is an Appendix (pp. 58–141, plus bibliography, pp. 141–56), which systematically documents the Goldschmidt collection, as represented in the Bildindex and other sources. Regina has traced a large number of them in admirable detail; here, for example, is the entry for the St Gregory miniature shown above: 

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 But many items from the collection are still elusive, and their whereabouts since World War II are unknown, including these:

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Regina tells me that she hopes, in due course, to publish a fully illustrated version of her work on the collection, but in the meantime would be very glad to hear from anyone who can provide information about any of the untraced leaves and cuttings.