Sunday, 8 February 2026

Cuttings of Initials from the 'Pontigny Bible', II


The 1958 Alan Thomas description shown in the previous post records that the two initials were 'From the Hachette collection', in which they were described 'as being English'. Without this lead, we would not have been able to deduce that lot 48 in the 1953 Hachette sale [1] were cuttings from this bible, and without the Hachette description we would also not have known that there are potentially four such cuttings, not just two: