Medieval Manuscripts Provenance
Notes and observations
Addenda and Corrigenda
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McCarthy Catalogue vol. I (Italian and Byzantine Illuminations)
McCarthy Catalogue vol. II (Spanish, English, Flemish, and Germanic Illuminations)
McCarthy Catalogue vol. III (French Illuminations)
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Membra disiecta
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The "Whitby" Psalter
Psalter with 'Aves' (Ege HL116)
The Minor Initials of the Murano Gradual
The St Albans Bible
The Pontigny Copy of Florus of Lyon and Didymus the Blind
Otto Ege's 12th-Century Italian Lectionary (HL 3)
Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum
The Hours of Renée de Bouchey
The Hours of M. de Vibrais
The Courtanvaux-Elmhirst Hours
Leaves and Cuttings from the Hastière Bible
Cuttings from a Cistercian Gradual
The Burckhardt-Wildt Apocalypse
The Strozzi-Jarman Book of Hours
The Goodspeed Bible
Leaves from a Cistercian Nunnery's Gradual
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Dispersed collections
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Gillyatt Sumner MSS
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Sunday, 5 July 2026
More Lauria Leaves
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The images we looked at in the previous blog from Arthur Lauria's 1955 catalogue of Manuscrits, incubables, livres rares, reliures , ha...
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
An ex-Lauria choirbook leaf
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The summer sales of medieval MSS at Christie's, Sotheby's, and Forum are now online, and I am going through them annotating my old c...
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Sunday, 8 February 2026
Cuttings of Initials from the 'Pontigny Bible', II
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The 1958 Alan Thomas description shown in the previous post records that the two initials were 'From the Hachette collection', in w...
Sunday, 18 January 2026
Cuttings with Initials from the 'Pontigny Bible', I
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In early November I watched an online presentation in which Agata Gazzillo briefly showed the image above [1]; I had a sense of recognition,...
Saturday, 3 January 2026
Gillyatt Sumner, John Mozley Stark, and Manuscripts from Erfurt
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'G. Sumner, Woodmansey, 1856.' [ Source ] In the previous post we saw that a manuscript from Erfurt appeared, like many Erfurt MSS, ...
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Monday, 29 December 2025
A Gillyatt Sumner Manuscript at the Bodleian
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'G. Sumner, Woodmansey, 1856' Although I had first taken an interest in Gillyatt Sumner and his medieval manuscripts in 2018 (see pr...
Sunday, 21 December 2025
The Medieval Manuscripts of Gillyatt Sumner
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In 2018 Mitch Fraas contacted me with a query, explaining that, "I found myself down a rabbit hole looking for more on an English colle...
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