tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84770840435147991902024-03-19T02:51:30.974+00:00Medieval Manuscripts ProvenanceNotes and observationsPeter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.comBlogger494125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-55642768865173997052023-11-11T17:22:00.000+00:002023-11-11T17:22:43.893+00:00Sydney Cockerell on the Value of Provenance in Catalogue Descriptions<p>I have just encountered, for the first time, this letter from Sydney Cockerell [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Cockerell">Wikipedia</a>] to the Editor of the <i>Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs</i>, 30 no. 169 (April 1917), p. 154 [click the images to enlarge them]:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrN9CBrc3Xva0Gia8L9UYDxjMfdnNHQDq3ls0zrCbrhZy8plYCYLoBJPgq46rMDUnzXMwSvnlsHz86BNY7bzzAVCOlaPXESuYl3ZOSH8RheNt6t2-5ZB-p492BrMcN2hmeGzoAJitAK5bgte3g1rqZewcpORhBZ6JnZ23WfLx55_SPo0qeKsirKQ1UkNe/s980/SCConProvenance.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="727" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrN9CBrc3Xva0Gia8L9UYDxjMfdnNHQDq3ls0zrCbrhZy8plYCYLoBJPgq46rMDUnzXMwSvnlsHz86BNY7bzzAVCOlaPXESuYl3ZOSH8RheNt6t2-5ZB-p492BrMcN2hmeGzoAJitAK5bgte3g1rqZewcpORhBZ6JnZ23WfLx55_SPo0qeKsirKQ1UkNe/w296-h400/SCConProvenance.png" width="296"></a></div><p><span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/11/sydney-cockerell-on-value-of-provenance.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-71682040785436300732023-10-29T07:27:00.002+00:002023-10-29T10:09:59.399+00:00An Unpublished Illuminated Calendar from the Abbey of Montier-la-Celle<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXIBKCs_4gosiCS0K52Odt5hO-2pEfvRbnV_wK6gsbW5g1KhAqjCHw60bLZUBXcXEUbhrCHQ_qjFWpwHItgJyDkx5WNskOAKnkCfVXDJ4JF7YlBL7eiroGwYGIg5c49mJwCtu_KY-ovdmgtRxL2VXJKe83vlNQE-2q7Nh31pRO5khP0SXKhJUCt4IdVoB/s600/SBT_DR10_1406_b_Gregory%20Cartulary_p8_Labour%20Roundel-smdet.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="600" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXIBKCs_4gosiCS0K52Odt5hO-2pEfvRbnV_wK6gsbW5g1KhAqjCHw60bLZUBXcXEUbhrCHQ_qjFWpwHItgJyDkx5WNskOAKnkCfVXDJ4JF7YlBL7eiroGwYGIg5c49mJwCtu_KY-ovdmgtRxL2VXJKe83vlNQE-2q7Nh31pRO5khP0SXKhJUCt4IdVoB/s320/SBT_DR10_1406_b_Gregory%20Cartulary_p8_Labour%20Roundel-smdet.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This and the following images are used <br>Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust <br>(CC-BY-NC-ND)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Interesting manuscripts can be found in unexpected places. At the CULTIVATE MSS conference in London a year ago [<a href="https://symphony-live-new2.s3.amazonaws.com/gxhI2PqdfaRSVxYtsQck7lkB1n6X5ApUgiwwzy5hLouF7mIbZcFe5JDnyYHTkMko/Provisional%20Conference%20programme%202022.pdf">PDF programme</a>], there was a presentation about the collection of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Birthplace_Trust">Wikipedia</a>], which was interesting but had very little to do with medieval manuscripts. One partly-medieval volume was mentioned and very briefly shown on screen, however, and after several months of emailing I was eventually able to get a complete set of images of the relevant part of it. One detail is shown above.</p><p><span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/10/an-unpublished-illuminated-calendar.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-24498534615882876022023-10-21T17:22:00.002+00:002023-10-26T11:16:27.144+00:00A.C. de la Mare and Neil Ker on Describing Script<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DmqWH96vkWwO6EnHZ9HMfe6EUyZrSMe2IPE52snDUInCqUqnKx-GspJT3A2Iqt67Nbo_2Dv3zFGXloAZMneujvrcVv-v7tqXu0cYb5qfz9-scWc3HshJw-GtF8BDl3DwReD79gjslVIsgtliZjDr-UpXa-hcRcv6msAi4KR3w8wcvob53H5AmOoZehaM/s1000/PXL_20230714_105117161-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="1000" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DmqWH96vkWwO6EnHZ9HMfe6EUyZrSMe2IPE52snDUInCqUqnKx-GspJT3A2Iqt67Nbo_2Dv3zFGXloAZMneujvrcVv-v7tqXu0cYb5qfz9-scWc3HshJw-GtF8BDl3DwReD79gjslVIsgtliZjDr-UpXa-hcRcv6msAi4KR3w8wcvob53H5AmOoZehaM/w400-h284/PXL_20230714_105117161-sm.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p></p><p>Anyone who has ever attempted to describe a manuscript will have faced the issue of terminology for describing script. Over the course of the last 75 years numerous books and articles have been written, and conferences held [1], discussing the issue, and yet we have still not arrived at any real consensus.</p><p>I think that two main drivers lay behind these publications and conferences, especially the earlier ones. One was to try to make palaeography more "scientific" (with implications of reliability and accuracy), and the other was to compensate for a lack of reproductions. It seems to me that the former was somewhat misguided [2], and the latter is now outdated [3].<br></p><p>If a series of Books of Hours are described as being mid 15th-century French, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, German, and Italian, then the knowledgeable reader will have a very good idea of what the script of each of them looks like, and how they differ from one another, without a formal description of their script. The same goes for an 11th-century biblical text, a 12th-century patristic text, a 13th-century academic text, a 14th-century legal text, a 15th-century Humanistic one, and so on. The date and place of origin, plus the type of text, is usually enough to indicate in <i>general</i> terms what the script looks like. No amount of description can ever convey its <i>precise</i> appearance <i>–</i> any attempt to do so is at best futile, and at worst misleading [4].</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/10/ac-de-la-mare-and-neil-ker-on.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-25322363374770904392023-10-14T11:29:00.005+00:002023-10-14T11:48:23.413+00:00Minor Initials from the Murano Gradual: Two More 19th-Century Albums<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRihMGpR-dWeKoJLo91W9tlJoQhnf7aXbE773hz4B8wBRVFMFLRIxNl6M97ZP4khWxVWhVVb_vLaHDt2rZWf9meSvQaV_oMRoKD-rPHhBe6dBPK-kmT80US219BxiXNNF6votL06iDk9k3yu_l3N6h6scbqVfouZzfB-3yqdUDLwp8TGA-tqXHHVVuiUEp/s600/BAV,%20Ross.%20151,%20fol.%206r-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="600" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRihMGpR-dWeKoJLo91W9tlJoQhnf7aXbE773hz4B8wBRVFMFLRIxNl6M97ZP4khWxVWhVVb_vLaHDt2rZWf9meSvQaV_oMRoKD-rPHhBe6dBPK-kmT80US219BxiXNNF6votL06iDk9k3yu_l3N6h6scbqVfouZzfB-3yqdUDLwp8TGA-tqXHHVVuiUEp/s320/BAV,%20Ross.%20151,%20fol.%206r-sm.jpg" width="320"></a></div><p></p><p>In March last year ago I wrote <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-murano-gradual-initials-ii-minor.html">a blogpost</a> about the minor (i.e. small foliate, not historiated) initials cut from the Murano Gradual. For a long time I had been very sceptical that they were indeed from the Murano Gradual -- because their style was so unlike the style of the minor initials that occur on the back of a few of the cuttings of historiated initials -- but when I eventually took the time to look closely at their script and musical notation, the relationship became plain.</p><p>I therefore compiled <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/p/the-minor-initials-of-murano-gradual.html">a list</a> of all the Murano Gradual's minor initials known to me: my hope is that, one day, someone will be able to emulate the exercise of reconstruction done by Margaret Rickert in the 1930s ("Fragmentology" is not a new field of study!), which resulted in three publications:</p><blockquote><p>Margaret Rickert, ‘The Reconstruction of an English Carmelite Missal’, <i>The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs</i>, vol. 67 no. 390 (Sept. 1935), pp. 99-113 (available to those with access to JSTOR <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/866190">here</a>)</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Margaret Rickert, ‘The Reconstruction of an English Carmelite Missal’, <i>Speculum</i>, XVI no. 1 (1941), pp. 92-102, pls. I-V (available to those with access to JSTOR <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2855912">here</a>)</p><p>Margaret Rickert, <i>The Reconstructed Carmelite Missal: An English Manuscript of the Late XIV Century in the British Museum (Additional 29704-5, 44892)</i> (London: Faber & Faber, 1952)</p><p></p></blockquote><p>It is a masterclass of reconstruction. Not only did she work out the original sequence of the major, historiated initials (a <i>comparatively</i> straighforward task), but was also able, astonishingly, through a painstaking examination of the tiny portions of text preserved on their backs, to put hundreds of the small, minor, initials into their relevant places:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfd80-xZeH4kfBkOBaIndWtnz2o9QR9X0A11o6PRaN2o6W2lriLIw6IRDM20EsDsX6Qo2vKkhbxAuPXEx3_JoK6eTknu5pPyN6_2jw4PAivndBtxfIod9xlSVkZJCbytvs4jDAwhFLUPe7O3FGksy6tMe5obxcij8e0cG1UJ85zBWZWpfI_4acmCS3y3V/s880/PXL_20231014_085717930-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfd80-xZeH4kfBkOBaIndWtnz2o9QR9X0A11o6PRaN2o6W2lriLIw6IRDM20EsDsX6Qo2vKkhbxAuPXEx3_JoK6eTknu5pPyN6_2jw4PAivndBtxfIod9xlSVkZJCbytvs4jDAwhFLUPe7O3FGksy6tMe5obxcij8e0cG1UJ85zBWZWpfI_4acmCS3y3V/w273-h400/PXL_20231014_085717930-sm.jpg" width="273"></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7VMpX631gwUlMsonXS8T-Xgod3IiNV0vqNHyopz-_VMGYTvlZAgYuerYq3YT07f4vZnz9XNcVl-Z1nYoTQqM_gDO4fiMlTn7XJNC1qY7EvLAGeFAaOyhK_HVMdcj8sah2N7RwV1LscdH8nxxyVFcc3zq5e9k90de_o6TmiHalgyKjJFXXhMP2yCWhA5l/s884/PXL_20231014_085747160-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7VMpX631gwUlMsonXS8T-Xgod3IiNV0vqNHyopz-_VMGYTvlZAgYuerYq3YT07f4vZnz9XNcVl-Z1nYoTQqM_gDO4fiMlTn7XJNC1qY7EvLAGeFAaOyhK_HVMdcj8sah2N7RwV1LscdH8nxxyVFcc3zq5e9k90de_o6TmiHalgyKjJFXXhMP2yCWhA5l/w271-h400/PXL_20231014_085747160-sm.jpg" width="271"></a></div><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/10/minor-initials-from-murano-gradual-two.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-39000304826575615132023-10-07T07:10:00.002+00:002023-10-09T08:11:54.328+00:00"Inclitus" Identified<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB68guGifnEQbs_qpP-UH1mJohSEHeASNJbwLsJuWsgL1nLX09ioT3osqaY5qhrsJVk_crN4Ytg5-F1tDrhp-453sb-ZHxNb2lCbb6fWC-4s_58e6FsbLQMCvxYsgfTC03SeUWu_HP4hwwwWQXpzE__lkt3GTygK3egx7SP-vxKJlwy2HmO5XStBN_nJNj/s800/Paris,%20Wildenstein%20M-6030-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB68guGifnEQbs_qpP-UH1mJohSEHeASNJbwLsJuWsgL1nLX09ioT3osqaY5qhrsJVk_crN4Ytg5-F1tDrhp-453sb-ZHxNb2lCbb6fWC-4s_58e6FsbLQMCvxYsgfTC03SeUWu_HP4hwwwWQXpzE__lkt3GTygK3egx7SP-vxKJlwy2HmO5XStBN_nJNj/w268-h400/Paris,%20Wildenstein%20M-6030-sm.jpg" width="268"></a></div><p>A miniature in the Wildenstein collection (shown above), the largest surviving work by the Master of the Murano Gradual, has usually been identified as depicting "Mission to the Apostles". In <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-wildenstein-mission-to-apostles.html">a previous blogpost</a>, I suggested that the subject is instead <i>The Selection of St Matthias</i> (as an apostle, to replace Judas).</p><p></p><p>Even if my suggestion is correct [1], there is still an oustanding puzzle about the miniature: it appears above a single line of text and music, and the text consists of a single word "INCLITUS":</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33PcdcjZ-iIrxwSQ1Ay_fhCCGrppNjF5UuAv2Ajcq_YgkxTGOl193PWdJ3LhbUg4y0yF-db_TkNpeVo5c2m0-MJNupEw3p_L26emtBlVU2TCM-oq6qD8WEr_11BaTx-sw-LwRaFBpO_kbMxMkpX6aFdnGl3254X3X6emspU6As5qecJQ7nGpSbI4_4azU/s967/Paris,%20Wildenstein%20M-6030-det1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="967" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33PcdcjZ-iIrxwSQ1Ay_fhCCGrppNjF5UuAv2Ajcq_YgkxTGOl193PWdJ3LhbUg4y0yF-db_TkNpeVo5c2m0-MJNupEw3p_L26emtBlVU2TCM-oq6qD8WEr_11BaTx-sw-LwRaFBpO_kbMxMkpX6aFdnGl3254X3X6emspU6As5qecJQ7nGpSbI4_4azU/w400-h95/Paris,%20Wildenstein%20M-6030-det1.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p></p><p>No one has ever been able to identify the text this comes from.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/10/inclitus-identified.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-8464446023918340492023-09-02T09:51:00.000+00:002023-09-02T09:51:56.857+00:00The Calendar from a Recently-Broken Italian Breviary<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoMfp-Vn__ofaWyKGzQCLlLjUL2uQ3PcEvu8fgxzlYY03UAVZI0PZ-x4C-Tyc3iYEeYlHqVcDcXU7CiwJ5fXhiy5Sn5plLXO8natLESyJ56qEN4ZmgNo4eOcOZJyz3zS9JI9NdvHSLFPb_IZ0UuxvCRoAsPlASz5D8h4CclmYI3FkHEHcoAF4i7shwO6SV/s1398/a2583911-f11e-4aa0-8bb2-b07001081e40cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="1398" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoMfp-Vn__ofaWyKGzQCLlLjUL2uQ3PcEvu8fgxzlYY03UAVZI0PZ-x4C-Tyc3iYEeYlHqVcDcXU7CiwJ5fXhiy5Sn5plLXO8natLESyJ56qEN4ZmgNo4eOcOZJyz3zS9JI9NdvHSLFPb_IZ0UuxvCRoAsPlASz5D8h4CclmYI3FkHEHcoAF4i7shwO6SV/w400-h295/a2583911-f11e-4aa0-8bb2-b07001081e40cropped.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p></p><p>I have just noticed that Forum Auctions have a calendar in a forthcoming sale (<a href="https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/113710/Calendar-probably-from-a-monumental-Missal-in-Latin-decorated-manuscript-Italy-probably-Perugia-second-half-of-the-14th-century?auction_date=&auction_no=1127&catId=&excl_keyword=&first_name=&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=&ipp=20&keyword=&last_name=&low_estimate=&name=&page_no=2&search_type=&sort_by=lot_no&title=&view=lot_detail">28 September, 2023, lot 24</a>), with a short description and a two-page opening reproduced in the online catalogue (shown above). </p><p>The description tells us that it is a six-leaf quire, bound in "19th century vellum-backed marbled boards", which suggests it was removed from its parent manuscript at least a century ago.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-calendar-from-recently-broken.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-11081111648678615292023-08-13T14:30:00.001+00:002023-08-13T14:31:51.337+00:00Wildenstein Cuttings and Leaves Now Online<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkoUwiCO7jI5bU0y3APBD-YLpflH54QltO7rz9Ttl54xPQIYg1lWAkKpbV20a_yqT92DaIDquXpeJyG5Dv9hXuU02JNetNNYrE6JV7zaLPgRotKTBgHyHGdrW94PPQDMX0hiUp81UwNiwHBOjPBX32J_GJnIqTjshhpkSLxr_7ly2ds1Mfy8knlAv06Gj5/s834/M-6034-det.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="834" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkoUwiCO7jI5bU0y3APBD-YLpflH54QltO7rz9Ttl54xPQIYg1lWAkKpbV20a_yqT92DaIDquXpeJyG5Dv9hXuU02JNetNNYrE6JV7zaLPgRotKTBgHyHGdrW94PPQDMX0hiUp81UwNiwHBOjPBX32J_GJnIqTjshhpkSLxr_7ly2ds1Mfy8knlAv06Gj5/w400-h340/M-6034-det.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">[click to enlarge] [<a href="https://www.marmottan.fr/notice/M-6034/">source</a>]<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>I have lots of blogposts in my draft folder, but all require some more work before they are ready to make public. One concerns the initials of the Murano Gradual, and in the process of compiling it, I found that the Musée Marmottan Monet, which owns a dozen historiated initials and <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-wildenstein-mission-to-apostles.html">a full-page miniature</a>, have digitised the collection within the past year or so and put them online. This seems like something worth sharing now.<p></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/08/wildenstein-cuttings-and-leaves-now.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-43730109474981937132023-07-25T13:26:00.008+00:002023-07-25T13:26:59.559+00:00Two More Erik von Scherling Catalogues Online: A Postscript<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKt_oEzdaigJ0E2aycqkO3NZtium5YwSVlknHjn054n8wia5DwGGM-8QAZvsLQ7VIukq2DWRUdUVgBIFoyMUYwS8DbWc8pxPIZdsi2R4Ab81DxxlFP-_ol4mTXT4YYEJq0gt6sxBOZAJXw1LSHLpf6ff9RCMEnoZ7ARqWVWDfa1VJwbZ0ArUkp6i_9tF_w/s801/PXL_20211228_192253093-det-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="801" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKt_oEzdaigJ0E2aycqkO3NZtium5YwSVlknHjn054n8wia5DwGGM-8QAZvsLQ7VIukq2DWRUdUVgBIFoyMUYwS8DbWc8pxPIZdsi2R4Ab81DxxlFP-_ol4mTXT4YYEJq0gt6sxBOZAJXw1LSHLpf6ff9RCMEnoZ7ARqWVWDfa1VJwbZ0ArUkp6i_9tF_w/s320/PXL_20211228_192253093-det-sm.jpg" width="320"></a></div><p>One of the reasons my <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-more-erik-von-scherling-catalogues.html">previous post</a> may be significant is that it demonstrates that von Scherling kept issuing catalogues of medieval manuscripts during the hiatus between vol. III (1933) and vol. IV (1937) of his <i>Rotulus</i> series.<span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-more-erik-von-scherling-catalogues_25.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-82210884589632248752023-07-23T13:06:00.005+00:002023-07-27T13:45:49.559+00:00Two More Erik von Scherling Catalogues Online<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSKggcF37vTf7676bHGo9nQsCweMnC27HcIuPkO0X9dMSDzVL5d0J9DT87lgQg-1W55Fa9PXDEU4t2kaIQ2cwG_-KSmc1Knt3dOuPtmPb-q3v17lzl4UEeFsZ1Ch5u2k1ii2fxcT3ZipI5z2uT_Wfn9ry2mZWFqgeeZHIY5OL4DO5_STQS9XdZVGtv80R/s754/Cat-tp.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="754" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSKggcF37vTf7676bHGo9nQsCweMnC27HcIuPkO0X9dMSDzVL5d0J9DT87lgQg-1W55Fa9PXDEU4t2kaIQ2cwG_-KSmc1Knt3dOuPtmPb-q3v17lzl4UEeFsZ1Ch5u2k1ii2fxcT3ZipI5z2uT_Wfn9ry2mZWFqgeeZHIY5OL4DO5_STQS9XdZVGtv80R/s320/Cat-tp.png" width="320"></a></div><br>In 2015 I wrote <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2015/01/erik-von-scherling-190756-and-rotulus.html">a blogpost</a> about the Dutch dealer Erik von Scherling, including an attempt to list all his known catalogues, especially the series with the title "<i>Rotulus</i>".<div> <br><div>At my request, and through the kindness of Candice C. Brown at Duke University Libraries, two more of his catalogues have now been digitized, and are available online at Archive.org.<p></p><span></span></div></div><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-more-erik-von-scherling-catalogues.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-81143418648488637062023-06-03T13:15:00.000+00:002023-06-03T13:15:02.243+00:00A Scattered Missal Written by Laurentius<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGR8RS_0gUUZazvZ-rMBqFO6vZJ_6pAdLiNLaftNgP2p6awzbMNKap2dfclRwlKdA3VnfG1YuXXm-kYOCs-Ssd0loziRFJ4fO1CaVRdoIzvaWMIbZBgHbkSF_3mm3HY5RDjazURcfRivHPGa_soScbz-FSm6UcSfO6APpbViJpbkOzoA2PyONtL--B2g/s800/58%20PXL_20211217_205257399-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGR8RS_0gUUZazvZ-rMBqFO6vZJ_6pAdLiNLaftNgP2p6awzbMNKap2dfclRwlKdA3VnfG1YuXXm-kYOCs-Ssd0loziRFJ4fO1CaVRdoIzvaWMIbZBgHbkSF_3mm3HY5RDjazURcfRivHPGa_soScbz-FSm6UcSfO6APpbViJpbkOzoA2PyONtL--B2g/s320/58%20PXL_20211217_205257399-sm.jpg" width="238"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Vassar College, Leaf 58</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>For the past few years I have been working on a catalogue of the medieval and Renaissance manuscripts at Vassar College, due to be published early next year. It has been the spur to many of my investigations into the trade in single leaves in the US in the 20th century, including those sold by Dawson's Book Shop, discussed in a few previous posts (e.g. <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/09/dawsons-of-los-angeles-and-otto-eges.html">here</a>). Just before I submitted the first draft of my text, I made a satisfying provenance discovery, concerning the Missal leaf shown above.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-scattered-missal-written-by-laurentius.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-34447647714775605652023-05-27T21:25:00.006+00:002023-05-29T12:05:41.741+00:00Otto Ege's Terence: An Addendum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_u0W-sDuMuANKjDIuYCEBjANzSw3t3VIzVrJ15yUAx1ym7rdtHnn9dmgnEw81xU7zYCssXsK-m4nRb5cDD2z5L4smYrP7dO5JIF719xnRXjfatDChVs0HOcDH8jzjhBr7wsMEshvma8-BsE0lQm_FmqmXGI82FL2Q5WQMFksgTV8K3zrqqkYjjU69Q/s808/Terence.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="577" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_u0W-sDuMuANKjDIuYCEBjANzSw3t3VIzVrJ15yUAx1ym7rdtHnn9dmgnEw81xU7zYCssXsK-m4nRb5cDD2z5L4smYrP7dO5JIF719xnRXjfatDChVs0HOcDH8jzjhBr7wsMEshvma8-BsE0lQm_FmqmXGI82FL2Q5WQMFksgTV8K3zrqqkYjjU69Q/s320/Terence.jpg" width="229"></a></div><br><div>Last weekend I posted about Otto Ege's manuscript of Terence's <i>Comedies</i>. I reproduced at the top of the page an image of a leaf in a private collection in California that I was able to examine a few weeks ago, thanks to the very kind hospitality of the owner. After he read my post, he contacted me to tactfully draw my attention to the fact that I seemed to have made an oversight.</div><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/05/otto-eges-terence-addendum.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-21376683388857177452023-05-21T10:08:00.003+00:002023-05-21T10:08:37.156+00:00Otto Ege's Terence<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXciMbdHoB2d4PT81MG-IUB_h9lnTyyRqWnldqFUqgr9Z0r1uvd0kvdZAo0DAp8gknRqQJbNxLbHus89HuiFtTBgyMdTJess-4jgmkmEXyZoo_8mx52flZKWVZlTyA1F3KsF-uxF4ir6J7UjSZO42mJW3PDkzJfkediOqoBfh8gi9ALc0eYX0lWjyLg/s800/067-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="568" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXciMbdHoB2d4PT81MG-IUB_h9lnTyyRqWnldqFUqgr9Z0r1uvd0kvdZAo0DAp8gknRqQJbNxLbHus89HuiFtTBgyMdTJess-4jgmkmEXyZoo_8mx52flZKWVZlTyA1F3KsF-uxF4ir6J7UjSZO42mJW3PDkzJfkediOqoBfh8gi9ALc0eYX0lWjyLg/s320/067-sm.jpg" width="227"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Private collection, California</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>Leaves from some of Otto Ege's manuscripts are very easily recognised. He did not sell many leaves of manuscripts written in Humanistic script, for example, and among these, his copy of Terence's <i>Comedies</i> is distinctive (an example is shown above).<span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/05/otto-eges-terence.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-10777543245986394112023-04-23T08:52:00.003+00:002023-04-23T17:09:33.676+00:00A Czech Antiphonal Leaf Dated 1576<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLgUZjs7FfXWlmp-mPkWdOMkyeGs8Z4hAZjZIbxCWwJxcEU7GSVjlMlKsY9VWCIFHHP8zGx02zje6JJeklmuCBdqrLDJnphyV1W40DubNi6PTP0ahijHZ2fRrbH6OzSUSQxTa2tETgYWbObuwJ10GzPGhxhqD2UYZnpEnAn2eP5vpKaWeFgVHJ5STHmw/s886/P1540512-tw-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLgUZjs7FfXWlmp-mPkWdOMkyeGs8Z4hAZjZIbxCWwJxcEU7GSVjlMlKsY9VWCIFHHP8zGx02zje6JJeklmuCBdqrLDJnphyV1W40DubNi6PTP0ahijHZ2fRrbH6OzSUSQxTa2tETgYWbObuwJ10GzPGhxhqD2UYZnpEnAn2eP5vpKaWeFgVHJ5STHmw/w271-h400/P1540512-tw-sm.jpg" width="271"></a></div><p>On a visit to the Houghton Library in 2018 I went through a box of miscellaneous single leaves, containing all sorts of interesting items. One is a Czech Antiphonal leaf, of which a detail is shown above.<span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-czech-antiphonal-leaf-dated-1576.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-85884440357587430982023-04-08T17:03:00.001+00:002023-04-21T09:41:21.890+00:00A 13th-Century Peter Lombard now in Liverpool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22LZhvVImGH9XBfrPGiA7UqlJiBTFEWAI8hSsrRLoQ7fJXztnqsE-QLYqvc_M2rcdzyLmc2TWmCuLBtLVNNPFsy4-oVcSCOA6TGIwcY2IgcZbVJsZ5fxSPWp6_mL51v6b0DKP9uDg9_3XDTnuPJq5hdkQ3fVdOCAxWceEohtfvfkV5LTgjkQDuwnOrg/s800/PXL_20221123_141338002.NIGHT-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="800" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22LZhvVImGH9XBfrPGiA7UqlJiBTFEWAI8hSsrRLoQ7fJXztnqsE-QLYqvc_M2rcdzyLmc2TWmCuLBtLVNNPFsy4-oVcSCOA6TGIwcY2IgcZbVJsZ5fxSPWp6_mL51v6b0DKP9uDg9_3XDTnuPJq5hdkQ3fVdOCAxWceEohtfvfkV5LTgjkQDuwnOrg/w400-h286/PXL_20221123_141338002.NIGHT-sm.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p>This week's post is really just a series of observations, followed by a puzzle to which I hope a reader might be able to offer a solution.</p><p>Some months ago I went to Liverpool, and among the manuscripts I wanted to see was a very fine copy of Peter Lombard's Gloss on the Psalms, produced probably in Oxford in the early 13th century. It is well known, having been catalogued by George Warner when owned by Dyson Perrins, and having been included in Nigel Morgan's Survey of Early Gothic English Illumination [1].</p><p>It is an extremely handsome volume, with wide margins, as can be seen in the image above; here is a close-up of one of the historiated initial:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-zAfScG0OaVIFvTEKK2axIUVlz1OLTYSA-YDehU9Skc0NYwnmWQw_kUnwW1PAzoMlWtAQpme23NuYSItxX6yRaZ3jfzqwayCdlpbCUKa8WIRe5YAxs_qPZPQLYak3fhj5b_PpMfVds5BIgFQXRCLhttsGtvDgksylgGRdFSLOItHkBqCbiZBTL5dQw/s800/PXL_20221123_141434482-det.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="800" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-zAfScG0OaVIFvTEKK2axIUVlz1OLTYSA-YDehU9Skc0NYwnmWQw_kUnwW1PAzoMlWtAQpme23NuYSItxX6yRaZ3jfzqwayCdlpbCUKa8WIRe5YAxs_qPZPQLYak3fhj5b_PpMfVds5BIgFQXRCLhttsGtvDgksylgGRdFSLOItHkBqCbiZBTL5dQw/w400-h310/PXL_20221123_141434482-det.jpg" width="400"></a> </div><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-13th-century-peter-lombard-now-in.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-30063951720264773812022-12-10T14:57:00.002+00:002022-12-10T14:57:56.749+00:00Another Leaf from the MdM and AdM Hours Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0HJVHox_Edn61LLSt2OHbbsS_kYsYKC4OJO9ZCxEOj7N9pvS6nZ1W2SZJFIgmYo8yRjuQnhGFjno4lGZr78BhhUseYprn5cVleEEyQWvf7wKtHrti1a0tyXiDjniqK_q2gG340FoJ7gBIq2-GzboJ5v6RkKtk7eD_PanbluoQVZzYOMslRcJf769nxA/s800/PXL_20220807_084025807-det.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="800" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0HJVHox_Edn61LLSt2OHbbsS_kYsYKC4OJO9ZCxEOj7N9pvS6nZ1W2SZJFIgmYo8yRjuQnhGFjno4lGZr78BhhUseYprn5cVleEEyQWvf7wKtHrti1a0tyXiDjniqK_q2gG340FoJ7gBIq2-GzboJ5v6RkKtk7eD_PanbluoQVZzYOMslRcJf769nxA/w400-h175/PXL_20220807_084025807-det.jpeg" width="400"></a></div><p>Regular readers will know that I have been trying to trace leaves from a late 15th-century Book of Hours with unusual initials "MdM" and "AdM" in some of the margins (see <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/05/mdm-and-adm.html">here</a>, <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/08/more-leaves-from-mdm-and-adm-hours.html">here</a>, and <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/10/two-more-leaves-of-mdm-and-adm-hours.html">here</a>).<span></span></p><p>One that has so far eluded me was reproduced in Maggs Bros., Catalogue 437: <i>Books of Art and Allied Subjects</i> (1923), no. 1159 plate LXI (of which a detail is shown above):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Qx73iZSogAXmswTzZFNaRQxGIG6CTtxBNakCrZ1vTD-1DZAVnO5x2XAnm_yqlVEPeztmC3qGSrqqQYI1Nw31WZjAJL-tazjLWD9r1ejIV3z5-e-YsG3QvbpH4ihIaHbqBelckqv_skVPDQGTJvQlHbmoGitGUFmrBhSsqfk_Vv_6wt-BbsP2Rg-Npg/s689/PXL_20220807_084025807-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Qx73iZSogAXmswTzZFNaRQxGIG6CTtxBNakCrZ1vTD-1DZAVnO5x2XAnm_yqlVEPeztmC3qGSrqqQYI1Nw31WZjAJL-tazjLWD9r1ejIV3z5-e-YsG3QvbpH4ihIaHbqBelckqv_skVPDQGTJvQlHbmoGitGUFmrBhSsqfk_Vv_6wt-BbsP2Rg-Npg/s320/PXL_20220807_084025807-sm.jpg" width="232"></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/another-leaf-from-mdm-and-adm-hours.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-23067490988172719752022-12-03T17:49:00.002+00:002022-12-09T15:07:21.440+00:00A Breviary Written at Lucca in 1464<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9eNolQ_YEOjaZp6L9PbkhcdQf9E7XvkfFMJ4CaxTtbbG-nBv74Me88p7MfjhlhAK13AzRi8ANA2HUIOBanbu5hss9mSqVtRcfm-zCfu3SRV3cbHksNCik0pfUm59gxqErR5MaYIFQmJe1mNzbfY6Un3YBdWNHBI1-EPf3L5HgkJy5gz5Q9j_gxEWNg/s614/2021%20Dec%205%20EVstamps%20lot%20135%20img-sm.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9eNolQ_YEOjaZp6L9PbkhcdQf9E7XvkfFMJ4CaxTtbbG-nBv74Me88p7MfjhlhAK13AzRi8ANA2HUIOBanbu5hss9mSqVtRcfm-zCfu3SRV3cbHksNCik0pfUm59gxqErR5MaYIFQmJe1mNzbfY6Un3YBdWNHBI1-EPf3L5HgkJy5gz5Q9j_gxEWNg/s320/2021%20Dec%205%20EVstamps%20lot%20135%20img-sm.jpeg" width="261"></a></div><p>For a few years I have been aware of leaves of a Breviary (of which an example is shown above) which had a colophon with the name of the scribe, and the place and date of completion: Lucca on 22 December 1464. But searches for the terms <span style="font-family: courier;">Breviary</span>, <span style="font-family: courier;">Lucca</span>, and <span style="font-family: courier;">1464</span> produce surprisingly few hits for institutional websites: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=breviary+lucca+1464&oq=breviary+lucca+1464">most of the search results</a> are for online dealer listings. I hope this blogpost will make the manuscript better known and lead to new identifications.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-breviary-written-at-lucca-in-1464.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-41982089960630426752022-11-26T13:23:00.000+00:002022-11-26T13:23:46.815+00:00An Anonymous Auction in Paris in 1934<p>In a previous blogpost about "Another Hachette-Lehman-Yale Cutting" (<a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2020/08/another-hachette-lehman-yale-cutting.html">here</a>) I referred to the catalogue of an auction held in Paris in 1934, to which I did not have access at that time. I have now seen a copy, and it adds to the group of cuttings discussed in that blogpost.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvLKbizwTHn12lbPBXVJkmkCxcXbtm2_5QtLk_6TgKRSeyvcM7kFn2Vbgi3TWmFVgqUdYJvnw4laylmhdW_BPSt9cKHfWh8Q6LmsHw88kFRlb7qiDAhfIZki9axTv2rkFQ_1cTAwqUIkYAoiNsqdQXal3kmjruCJ60ii0UfpjivQ8--UjPJzf3EehAuA/s828/fjcymrnynooid-sm.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvLKbizwTHn12lbPBXVJkmkCxcXbtm2_5QtLk_6TgKRSeyvcM7kFn2Vbgi3TWmFVgqUdYJvnw4laylmhdW_BPSt9cKHfWh8Q6LmsHw88kFRlb7qiDAhfIZki9axTv2rkFQ_1cTAwqUIkYAoiNsqdQXal3kmjruCJ60ii0UfpjivQ8--UjPJzf3EehAuA/s320/fjcymrnynooid-sm.jpeg" width="232"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;">Catalogue des dessins, aquarelles, <br>gouaches, anciens et modernes, ... <br>enluminures des XIVe et XVe siècles, <br>appartenant à Madame X ... <br>15 décembre 1934</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/11/an-anonymous-auction-in-paris-in-1934.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-54475412291979067652022-11-20T12:07:00.001+00:002022-11-20T16:26:59.757+00:00The Office of the Dead and the Iken Psalter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLfHiX7YD_VK2GAoyoF-2D7ynC2I7rGZ-WKvoGAhJDz5tPuZGA4NKE6BBXXMN8KsBHznWArLByf-Ys6sSkOmWPx7EoVRzz5IkhqJBho1ZYFiutzl2dB9DFyvbSX69cpZ4hL1uY7mx7pnTd3iKhC2I9shia-pizy5dagDLjhkvYnLYMiMIf5ls00vP5tg/s650/421%2065919019-REV_JPEG%20medium-det.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="650" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLfHiX7YD_VK2GAoyoF-2D7ynC2I7rGZ-WKvoGAhJDz5tPuZGA4NKE6BBXXMN8KsBHznWArLByf-Ys6sSkOmWPx7EoVRzz5IkhqJBho1ZYFiutzl2dB9DFyvbSX69cpZ4hL1uY7mx7pnTd3iKhC2I9shia-pizy5dagDLjhkvYnLYMiMIf5ls00vP5tg/w400-h217/421%2065919019-REV_JPEG%20medium-det.jpeg" width="400"></a></div><p></p><p>The Office of the Dead is a text whose overall format is pretty consistent, but whose details vary significantly, according to different liturgical "Uses". The Office can be found in several types of liturgical and devotional manuscripts, often appearing at or near the end of a Psalter, for example, and it is a standard feature of Books of Hours. It can be particularly helpful in establishing where a book was made (or at least where it was intended to be used) when the Hours of the Virgin are missing, incomplete, or correspond to a very widespread Use such as the Use of Paris or Rome. One might find, for example, a Book of Hours illuminated by Parisian artists, with a Parisian Use for the Hours of the Virgin, but an Office of the Dead for the Use of Troyes: a sure clue to the area where the patron lived.<span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-office-of-dead-and-iken-psalter.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-2760025111967456522022-11-06T13:50:00.000+00:002022-11-06T13:50:15.165+00:00The Source of the Composition of a Fake Drawing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS37QNIxigsU1DTXI0Vbox4A30SSICCc3yrjDzj5aryhQ_mM7bOrfbywoaHH2ra3RrihNtnQHjyFwO42d-u6c2Z4wOWySjW6bo-umAJpgjYm7aoK0E35RTqoZdMBFmGC_dX29bYqJJ4qOcES_jW4G-WTXGx2UDZF0EMuhVd1GaaetrRTUsMVEpDNo2XA/s800/65917138-375_JPEG%20medium-det.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="542" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS37QNIxigsU1DTXI0Vbox4A30SSICCc3yrjDzj5aryhQ_mM7bOrfbywoaHH2ra3RrihNtnQHjyFwO42d-u6c2Z4wOWySjW6bo-umAJpgjYm7aoK0E35RTqoZdMBFmGC_dX29bYqJJ4qOcES_jW4G-WTXGx2UDZF0EMuhVd1GaaetrRTUsMVEpDNo2XA/s320/65917138-375_JPEG%20medium-det.jpeg" width="217"></a></div><p>I am helping to catalogue the collection of leaves and fragments owned by the late Marvin Colker, which will be sold <a href="https://www.christies.com/auction/auction-21173-cks">at Christie's</a> in about a month's time. The collection contains lots of interest, and I have at least one more blogpost in preparation about items from it. Today I provide a very brief one, concerning the drawing above.</p><span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-source-of-composition-of-fake.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-32263562078231281352022-10-22T09:16:00.001+00:002022-10-23T13:53:37.412+00:00Two More Leaves of the MdM and AdM Hours<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNEcQizcMBxauE2PI6bgbgVjUdKKRX1VSzHXfjiOj9G6OYCHqx50ZYBWsbMRY8njiCApwFv5_PhsW_jhFZqujtpfoxs0R5jFayFCu8iHMZLX2vzsSTsFVv_vUcv2Hli622AlkDmhqpajthySGGp6SBnY20LQ-4LguRtq1h7hsQT2VbnRabXPQeJXMzVw/s784/default%20(1)-det.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="784" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNEcQizcMBxauE2PI6bgbgVjUdKKRX1VSzHXfjiOj9G6OYCHqx50ZYBWsbMRY8njiCApwFv5_PhsW_jhFZqujtpfoxs0R5jFayFCu8iHMZLX2vzsSTsFVv_vUcv2Hli622AlkDmhqpajthySGGp6SBnY20LQ-4LguRtq1h7hsQT2VbnRabXPQeJXMzVw/w400-h211/default%20(1)-det.jpeg" width="400"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div>In May I wrote <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/05/mdm-and-adm.html">a blogpost</a> about two leaves from a Book of Hours which has the initials "MdM" and "AdM" -- presumably of its husband and wife owners -- in the borders; they are at Montreal and Rochester, NY. By chance I found another leaf from the same manuscript while in the US in July, in Toledo, Ohio, and wrote <a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/08/more-leaves-from-mdm-and-adm-hours.html">another blogpost</a> about them after my return. In the second of these posts I reproduced a page from a 1923 Maggs Bros catalogue, in which four leaves of the manuscript are described, including the Toledo one. <div><br></div><div>I have now found two more leaves, at least one of which is described in the Maggs catalogue. <span>The two new leaves do not have the telltale initials "MdM" and "AdM" in their borders, but I am confident -- based on the style of script and decoration, and the number of lines per page -- that they come from the same manuscript.</span></div><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/10/two-more-leaves-of-mdm-and-adm-hours.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-91201760157910728862022-10-15T10:33:00.001+00:002022-10-15T10:33:55.092+00:00A New Leaf of the Quadripartite Miniatures Series (Paris, c.1340)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAaExuh7iOhlZNTYmPnPj9Hlpriv489BrlCw7rLIDFjBm30YQ7fxLSPT7W7f9hNpTF5Q0U7ZpaSLHFytm3Ykz4Qr2BRGrVdxwNeK6WdAr-9yX3NHyFF4fl3GIIxjvzwZ12dIrkKrBt2JhDQ_4GLs_hPc5gIya8eO0yCR8hZve9z1FsGd54nAv02TVtxw/s530/PXL_20220722_141914110-vsm.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAaExuh7iOhlZNTYmPnPj9Hlpriv489BrlCw7rLIDFjBm30YQ7fxLSPT7W7f9hNpTF5Q0U7ZpaSLHFytm3Ykz4Qr2BRGrVdxwNeK6WdAr-9yX3NHyFF4fl3GIIxjvzwZ12dIrkKrBt2JhDQ_4GLs_hPc5gIya8eO0yCR8hZve9z1FsGd54nAv02TVtxw/s320/PXL_20220722_141914110-vsm.jpeg" width="242"></a></div><p></p><p>Perhaps the most exciting discovery of my summer trip to various collections in NY, OH, and Toronto was a wealth of unknown or little-known material at the Royal Ontario Museum. Among many interesting illuminated cuttings and text leaves is the quadripartite miniature shown above, a previously unrecognised member of a group of miniatures now scattered between private and institutional collections including the Lilly, Bodleian, and British Libraries, Fitzwilliam Museum, and Art Institute of Chicago.</p><p><span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-new-leaf-of-quadripartite-miniatures.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-57093236263917896642022-10-09T06:41:00.008+00:002022-11-29T17:35:52.391+00:00Otto Ege's Limoges Missal (HL38)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ4fcsG2860kyQU0H40KkKktYo2CapfUoflxaAEwykn9VKN3gYx5y9de30ZblJOj-I7F6KDOmFhMurhczPGtDAn1sP1hj-7o2obyX-CpFaghK6MtfqN1X4Wam9_OvnLhU7o_N0A2E3qKVHqTgG6A6fMN11Azw-cUbl0LFFRk1FPcCtOz7SyB2mAygUqg/s915/Elw3C6rXEAg_6SZb.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="673" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ4fcsG2860kyQU0H40KkKktYo2CapfUoflxaAEwykn9VKN3gYx5y9de30ZblJOj-I7F6KDOmFhMurhczPGtDAn1sP1hj-7o2obyX-CpFaghK6MtfqN1X4Wam9_OvnLhU7o_N0A2E3qKVHqTgG6A6fMN11Azw-cUbl0LFFRk1FPcCtOz7SyB2mAygUqg/w294-h400/Elw3C6rXEAg_6SZb.jpeg" width="294"></a></div><br>The early 20th-century provenance of Otto Ege's Limoges Missal, leaves of which were no. 38 in his posthumous portfolio of <i>Fifty Original Leaves</i>, is already well established. Scott Gwara (<i>Otto Ege's Manuscripts</i>, 2013, HL38) records sales at Sotheby's, 26 March 1917, lot 799; American Art/Anderson Galleries, 20 January 1925, lot 288; and American Art/Anderson Galleries, 8 February 1926, lot 288.<span></span><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/10/otto-eges-limoges-missal-hl38.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-87177877891320968402022-10-02T10:33:00.003+00:002022-10-02T10:33:39.298+00:00Another Leaf of the Arrivabene Eusebius<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1F5XUfGeFXO5Z2I43HcrqVyOKTma1cFGrN5qnxxZbMBEoZkxkluGkF7YfLwXK2zSgqvl1NJuKtz8ge-Q67Xsca6Xwj6J6Wl2UfG9ldbKsHPIFXxCMW32OVfnSpc3-2iy44bzqQcv2PE4H6yPW_6WulD3x2aZ5UEbVm44a9l5vq2aXBszQBjTD_qcKpA/s800/csc_0154%20box3_025-det2-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="800" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1F5XUfGeFXO5Z2I43HcrqVyOKTma1cFGrN5qnxxZbMBEoZkxkluGkF7YfLwXK2zSgqvl1NJuKtz8ge-Q67Xsca6Xwj6J6Wl2UfG9ldbKsHPIFXxCMW32OVfnSpc3-2iy44bzqQcv2PE4H6yPW_6WulD3x2aZ5UEbVm44a9l5vq2aXBszQBjTD_qcKpA/w400-h209/csc_0154%20box3_025-det2-sm.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br>Thanks to the kindness of Steven Galbraith of the Rochester Institute of Technology, I have just received images of some of the leaves I was unable to see in person while in Rochester this summer. They have all sorts of interesting items, but one in particular caught my attention, a detail of which is shown above.<p></p><p>A few years ago wrote a blogpost about "An Unnoticed Arrivabene Leaf at the Newberry Library" (<a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-unnoticed-arrivabene-leaf-at.html">here</a>); it concerns one of two leaves formerly owned by Ernst F. Detterer (1888-1947) of Chicago, friend of Otto Ege, and now at the Newberry. I was unable to locate the second leaf, but I think it must be the one now at Rochester.<span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/10/another-leaf-of-arrivabene-eusebius.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-25628724908973967052022-09-17T08:07:00.001+00:002022-09-17T08:07:40.787+00:00The Source of the Idea for the Lomax-Wade Collection?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGphqQoakX9NrRDRwQf0GKXwAtDNfXCN_HosMd81cHok1ld0oSA6nEivh1arwJHbZu8lPnjJEeDCVSex7MZDkDrbwcHMWGYojtWXuJoXaYLtm5EfzakV--dQYoUYP5K6nBr4-wtQoUdaddVEKlwudiu4Gmtkv41CusSEdmHaKPrcnvHrDOgaEVHtoqFQ/s572/Lomax-Wade-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="572" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGphqQoakX9NrRDRwQf0GKXwAtDNfXCN_HosMd81cHok1ld0oSA6nEivh1arwJHbZu8lPnjJEeDCVSex7MZDkDrbwcHMWGYojtWXuJoXaYLtm5EfzakV--dQYoUYP5K6nBr4-wtQoUdaddVEKlwudiu4Gmtkv41CusSEdmHaKPrcnvHrDOgaEVHtoqFQ/s320/Lomax-Wade-sm.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> A very short post today, as I need to finish preparing my talk for next week's <a href="https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/international-trade-pre-modern-manuscripts-1890-1945-and-making-middle-ages">CULTIVATE MSS conference</a>.<p></p><p>Regular readers may remember a series of posts about the "Lomax-Wade" collection of cuttings (<a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-provenance-of-lombard-cutting-ii.html">here</a> and following weeks): a collection of 120 illuminations (one of which is shown above) mounted on card and bound into a copy of Henry Shaw, <i>Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts of the Middle Ages</i> (London, 1833):</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6XgrWSSRXfuxdoLP-vJfB8wHlqTMeoQSd4j13n3zDG8P9owbaDcT1Bcm0OnwUKvipxvXkk4WnGGJrha1nLUuHgl8ey6cvG7YTPgtF6gSwaGaBT5vHb3z_tyS8IjED5QVTJxQrMH0j9ET7eO4EqSAEVY3xC4s3YMr4HmQuI35_nffhg7gXkm8OmUvtg/s1000/Lomax-Wade.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="1000" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6XgrWSSRXfuxdoLP-vJfB8wHlqTMeoQSd4j13n3zDG8P9owbaDcT1Bcm0OnwUKvipxvXkk4WnGGJrha1nLUuHgl8ey6cvG7YTPgtF6gSwaGaBT5vHb3z_tyS8IjED5QVTJxQrMH0j9ET7eO4EqSAEVY3xC4s3YMr4HmQuI35_nffhg7gXkm8OmUvtg/w400-h126/Lomax-Wade.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><blockquote><p>"Henry Shaw, Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts of the Middle Ages, extra-illustrated with one hundred and twenty cuttings from manuscripts [...]"</p></blockquote><p>Although the book was published in 1833, this copy was in a binding signed by the noted London binder Charles Lewis, dated 1838.</p><p>I have recently discovered that in his catalogue for 1834, just a few years before the Lomax-Wade volume was bound, the London bookseller William Pickering offered some Italian illuminated cuttings for sale (doubtless from the Celotti collection, largely dispersed during the previous decade), recommending that they might be bound into a copy of Shaw's book!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcCOzrbQloB4_nguQ96UiEQQhSGlfpXrPA9GQJvHnLq6v2quLoxT0p1ixHA8CgTxJsgWqMng3TTs6uLFmRfGnzBt_SzX2_DWG0n408RKhys9FUydbOTLIEXL9o0eQpGX0Ey193ChMnYo2cOQRRZeJfcL6VvYSIrx4JuWp0h6QqjzY9wkCAgLMetlmjg/s1000/Pickering.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="1000" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcCOzrbQloB4_nguQ96UiEQQhSGlfpXrPA9GQJvHnLq6v2quLoxT0p1ixHA8CgTxJsgWqMng3TTs6uLFmRfGnzBt_SzX2_DWG0n408RKhys9FUydbOTLIEXL9o0eQpGX0Ey193ChMnYo2cOQRRZeJfcL6VvYSIrx4JuWp0h6QqjzY9wkCAgLMetlmjg/w400-h122/Pickering.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><blockquote><p>"These original specimens would make an admirable addition to a copy of Mr. Shaw's Illuminated Ornaments."</p></blockquote>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477084043514799190.post-78638360886485428932022-09-10T11:33:00.002+00:002022-09-14T10:37:14.275+00:00More Ege Acquisitions from Dawson's Book Shop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKd8y09exngYPh1u-ivrYxoMosMC1Z9LSDGF6YQwPpQisWLrq8AYwiOwhBlknE8leJg_4VMDnrX_vUyF3m6heLzo8Pmuc4JxRlyNhoqexyW6OWZlzySxDazCfMeCHyMH0ouhfcEGSza9uJ1AUbEcRX-3A7PYkUQS8tjHOGCkSMJOUaSHpcbVw04guqPA/s800/BM1898_closeUp1-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKd8y09exngYPh1u-ivrYxoMosMC1Z9LSDGF6YQwPpQisWLrq8AYwiOwhBlknE8leJg_4VMDnrX_vUyF3m6heLzo8Pmuc4JxRlyNhoqexyW6OWZlzySxDazCfMeCHyMH0ouhfcEGSza9uJ1AUbEcRX-3A7PYkUQS8tjHOGCkSMJOUaSHpcbVw04guqPA/s320/BM1898_closeUp1-sm.jpg" width="320"></a></div><p></p><p>Last week we looked at a manuscript sold by Dawson's Book Shop of Los Angeles, and broken up by Otto Ege (or perhaps Philip Duschnes). Today we'll look at a few more.</p><p>For <a href="https://www.paulholberton.com/product-page/the-mccarthy-collection-french-miniatures">the catalogue</a> of French manuscripts in the collection of Bob McCarthy I traced eleven leaves with historiated initials from a Parisian Bible of about the 1330s (of which a detail is shown above), and about sixteen more without historiated initials:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmySD2hnscxv0rDSybRNJxybbquw40IbFXnP2WtRaPYSI5VMa6BMy-RzPfshGEa2bJ_2SOrK3NDE4CIALFtUGvQ0R24wzkFStM6Oi3HUVMHntGhWhIIRxWiJbiwleWrPda0FYHnI4SW3B8bbXCnncUanHMXbnNEMFwq6tQrQaMAjJTfIy96Ut_7v6S9w/s952/McCIIIno.79.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="789" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmySD2hnscxv0rDSybRNJxybbquw40IbFXnP2WtRaPYSI5VMa6BMy-RzPfshGEa2bJ_2SOrK3NDE4CIALFtUGvQ0R24wzkFStM6Oi3HUVMHntGhWhIIRxWiJbiwleWrPda0FYHnI4SW3B8bbXCnncUanHMXbnNEMFwq6tQrQaMAjJTfIy96Ut_7v6S9w/s320/McCIIIno.79.jpg" width="265"></a></div><p><span></span></p><a href="https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/09/more-ege-acquisitions-from-dawsons-book.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Kiddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798182942786604505noreply@blogger.com0