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Sunday, 30 November 2025

Another Antiphonary Cutting from the Stroganoff Collection

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A couple of weeks ago I looked at two early 16th-century Flemish miniatures from the Stroganoff Collection. In a blogpost in 2017  (with a p...
Saturday, 22 November 2025

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

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The collection of illuminations (not to mention his complete codices, printed graphic arts, etc.) of Victor Goldschmidt [ Wikipedia ], of He...
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Saturday, 15 November 2025

Two More Miniatures from the Collection of Count Stroganoff

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On several occasions in 2017 ( here ) and 2020 ( here , here , and here ) I blogged about illuminations from the collection of Count Strogan...
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An Unpublished Illuminated Calendar from the Abbey of Montier-la-Celle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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