Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 2013.130.1 [ Source ] In the first post on the The Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, Winter ...

Downstairs in the Writing Room seven further items hung on a wall, all lent by Capt. Edward G. Spencer-Churchill, who, as we saw in the...

Most readers of this blog will be aware of the landmark 1908 exhibition of illuminated manuscripts held by the Burlington Fine Arts Club ...

I have now published the second page of ongoing work-in-progress to track down the most recent known whereabouts of leaves and cuttings f...

A few months ago I wrote a post about a leaf at Houghton Library, with a miniature of the Baptism of Christ on one side and a Beatus ini...

[ Digital Library@Villanova University;  Source ] One of the challenges of tracing a manuscript from owner to owner is to verify that it...

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

My interest was aroused by the description of of a 19th-century album that will be sold next week , whose catalogue description does not ...

At the recent TEFAF art fair at Maastricht, one of the items that piqued my curiosity was a very handsome copy of Peter Lombard on the ...

Sometimes the most unassuming fragments turn out to be among the most informative. Looking at images of recently-digitised manuscript fragme...

When writing the previous post  about the leaves and cuttings sold by Gustav Nebehay in 1926, I concentrated on the catalogue entries that a...

Some months ago, Consuelo Dutschke very generously gave me some old auction and dealer catalogues, including Sotheby's, 14-16 June, 1...

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

In a previous post I mentioned that I have an interest in manuscripts from the Throckmorton library. This interest dates from the late 1990...

Leaves from one of the manuscripts dispersed by Otto Ege which are most easily recognised are from a Cistercian Missal, long thought to be F...

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

The Wallace Collection in London is, among other things, a centre for the study of provenance, with a regular evening seminar on the His...

After a hiatus of a few weeks I have re-commenced blogging; my last couple of posts have been about items in the forthcoming London July auc...

In a previous post I discussed a fascinating Psalter-Hours whose origin in uncertain. A leaf with five historiated initials is among the o...

The catalogue of the forthcoming Sotheby's summer sale of medieval and renaissance manuscripts ( available online ) includes, as  lot 1...