Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

Almost three years ago I did a post  about some Guglielmo Libri catalogues of manuscripts that were available online. Ten days ago the ...

Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart., A.D. 1837 (Impressus Typis Medio-Montanis, 1837[–1871]). I ...

I recently taught a two-day course on 'Codicology and Cataloguing' at the London International Palaeography Summer School (...

Earlier this year I was looking at a collection of leaves and documents and came across one that looked particularly appealing, being writte...

One of the most useful tools for provenance research on medieval manuscripts has been made available for online consultation and download : ...

Of all the manuscripts said to have been cut up by Otto Ege  and now scattered around the world, none is as instantly recognisable as the Be...

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...

I am currently trying to identify some arms that appear twice in a Book of Hours, made in Paris(?) in the first half of the 16th century. Th...

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

The Smithfield Decretals (British Library, Royal MS. 10 E.iv) is an exceptionally large (c.450 x 285mm.) and lavish (including more than 600...

Didier Petit de Meurville  (1793-1873) of Lyon was one of the major French collectors of religious art of the 19th century. A partially ...

The catalogue of the library of the Abbé Rothelin (1691-1746), printed in 1747 and used for his auction in 1749, is now available online thr...

The always-interesting Pecia blog has the beginnings of an investigation into a book of hours apparently once owned by a member of the Larg...

The Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge Dumenil (1847), written by his son-in-law Jules Labarte , is avail...

The 1882 auction catalogue of the Firmin-Didot collection is available online. The section on manuscripts (nos. 1-45) includes many importa...