Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote  a post about a cutting from the same Pope Leo X manuscript as the two cuttings at Vassar Coll...

Christie's recently held its first "Online Only" auction of medieval manuscript leaves and cuttings. I visited them while they...

Among other complete manuscripts, leaves, and cuttings represented in the Bier Archive are the following: [ Source ]

It seems that Google scanned Robert Forrer's Unedierte Federzeichnungen Miniaturen und Initialen des Mittelalters  (Strassburg, 1902) at...

Having demonstrated in a previous post that the Vassar (and related) cuttings come from a manuscript closely related to the Preparatio ad ...

In preparation for a visit to manuscript repositories within a few hours drive of New York city, I contacted Vassar College Library's Sp...

After reading the  blog post about a manuscript in Liège with the arms of Jean(?) Budé, Dominique Vanwijnsberghe kindly told me about a lat...

Occidental College has an extremely appealing leaf of an English Psalter of circa 1200, containing Psalms 20:1-21:6: The fact that th...

A week ago I visited the current exhibition of manuscripts at Lille . It was mostly very unimpressive, with low-quality objects displayed in...

Earlier this year a fine Flemish Book of Hours with an interesting  early 19th-century provenance was sold in London. A faint pencil inscri...

Much has been written about  Otto Ege  in the past two decades: see, for example, the articles by Barbara Shailor, ‘Otto Ege: His Manuscript...

I occasionally encounter catalogue descriptions which mention an anonymous bookplate, variously described by different cataloguers, but rec...

Four miniatures from a Book of Hours illuminated by Willem Vrelant and the Fastolf Master (now Paris, Bibliothèque de l' Arsenal, ms. 57...