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Wednesday, 6 March 2024

Hmmm ...

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"Someone" has -- very tediously -- persuaded Google to remove (for a second time) my most recent blogpost. So let's just repla...
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Saturday, 11 November 2023

Sydney Cockerell on the Value of Provenance in Catalogue Descriptions

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I have just encountered, for the first time, this letter from Sydney Cockerell [ Wikipedia ] to the Editor of the  Burlington Magazine for C...
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Sunday, 29 October 2023

An Unpublished Illuminated Calendar from the Abbey of Montier-la-Celle

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This and the following images are used Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (CC-BY-NC-ND) Interesting manuscripts can be found in un...
Saturday, 21 October 2023

A.C. de la Mare and Neil Ker on Describing Script

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  Anyone who has ever attempted to describe a manuscript will have faced the issue of terminology for describing script. Over the course of ...
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Saturday, 14 October 2023

Minor Initials from the Murano Gradual: Two More 19th-Century Albums

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  In March last year ago I wrote a blogpost about the minor (i.e. small foliate, not historiated) initials cut from the Murano Gradual. For...
Saturday, 7 October 2023

"Inclitus" Identified

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A miniature in the Wildenstein collection (shown above), the largest surviving work by the Master of the Murano Gradual, has usually been id...
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Saturday, 2 September 2023

The Calendar from a Recently-Broken Italian Breviary

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  I have just noticed that Forum Auctions have a calendar in a forthcoming sale ( 28 September, 2023, lot 24 ), with a short description and...
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