Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

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

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

Helmingham Hall, Suffolk I have recently had reason to examine some manuscripts from the Tollemache family collection at Helmingham Ha...

A week ago I mentioned and illustrated a pair of full-page miniatures from the earliest illuminated manuscript of the Roman de Troie , wh...

I recently visited Houghton Library at Harvard and was able to see MS Typ 239, discussed in a previous post . I am now able to show colour i...

The "Histoire de la Bibliophilie" blog has recently  posted  about the libraries of the various members of the Colbert family , in...

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 ...

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...