Saturday, 3 January 2026

Gillyatt Sumner, John Mozley Stark, and Manuscripts from Erfurt

'G. Sumner, Woodmansey, 1856.'
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In the previous post we saw that a manuscript from Erfurt appeared, like many Erfurt MSS, in the 1836 von Bülow sale, before finding its way to Gillyatt Sumner. Both previous blogposts have images of Sumner's ownership inscriptions at the top, and both are dated 1856. Another manuscript, now in Paris, also has an ownership inscription dated 1856, shown above.