Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

Northampton, MA, Smith College, MS. 288, fol.45r [All images of this manuscript are from Digital Scriptorium ] In a previous p...

Earlier this year I catalogued a Missal of the Use of York, one of only a dozen known to survive, with an interesting provenance, owned by s...

The University of Liège has recently digitized some of its most important illuminated manuscripts. Among them is a very unusual volume, MS W...

For several years I have wondered to whom this bookplate belongs: New York, Public Library, Spencer MS 76, fol.i verso Image: Digital Sc...

Some time ago I was pleased to discover that Google Books included an 1863 auction catalogue of books from the library of Count Carlo Arch...

The small collection of medieval leaves in Special Collections in the Library at Occidental College in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles  ...

The Ege leaves in the Occidental College collection include: Psalter; France, mid-13th century Gwara HL10 Psalms 119:136-154 Apparent...

I occasionally encounter a manuscript with a circular paper label printed in blue with the words "Church Congress Exhibition", or ...

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