Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

Among the digitized manuscripts at Villanova University, PA, is a very small (approx.100×70mm) 14th-century English copy of some of Augustin...

"EXHUMATION" is in the process of preparing a much expanded second edition of his excellent The Price-Codes of the Book-Trade:...

The previous post left the Duprat Bible in the 1724 catalogue of the Château d'Anet. Whoever bought the Bible divided each volume int...

I was recently made aware of a digitized manuscript at Princeton from the collection of Henry Yates Thompson, which has his characteristi...

Manuscripts collected by Henry-Auguste Brölemann between 1824 and his death in 1854, which descended to his grandson Arthur Brölemann, and w...

This week I gave a presentation about "Price-Codes and Provenance" at a conference in London; one of my slides is above. I hav...

One price-code missing from the excellent The Price-Codes of the Book-Trade: A Preliminary Guide , by "Exhumation" [i.e. Ian Jacks...

Most of the medieval manuscript leaves in the Library's Special Collections at Occidental College were given by Robert Ormes Dougan (19...

There is a detailed analysis of a variety of marks found in a single book here: https://msuprovenance.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/problems-in-...

I have recently read and reviewed Kathryn A. Smith,  The Taymouth Hours: Stories and the Construction of Self in Late Medieval England  (The...

[Continued from this post ] Looking at the original Phillipps auction catalogues from 1903 and 1911 it was possible to locate the follow...