Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

Following on from a recent post , I have realised that lot 51 in the Boerner catalogue, later lot 32 in the Lanna-Prag catalogue, was later ...

On a couple of occasions in past blogs I have referred to the catalogue of an auction held in Leipzig in November 1912 by C.G. Boerner.

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...

The previous post was inspired by a leaf that was sold as lot 384 in the Lanna auction at Stuttgart in 1910. Anne Korteweg has kindly...

On a recent visit to Sotheby's I was shown a lovely leaf from a Book of Hours, with a small miniature depicting St Margaret, and a...

St-Jacques, Liège, c.1735 [ Source ] Online searches locate several fully or partially digitised manuscripts from St-Jacques, including ...

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...

When cataloguing the pre-1500 manuscripts of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia recently, I needed to identify the owner of an Italia...

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

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...

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

The so-called "du Prat atelier" of 13th-century Parisian illuminators was named by Robert Branner after a luxurious large (c.440×3...

In a few weeks' time a well-known dealer will open an exhibition of manuscripts at his gallery in central London. He tasked me to check ...

Just a few days after publishing the previous post  I happened, by pure chance, to discover that a preliminary draft of the long-awaited ...

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

As related in the previous post , the Beauvais Missal was bought at the Brölemann-Mallet sale in 1926 by Permain on behalf of William Randol...