Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

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

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

While in New York recently, I not only crossed the East River to go to Brooklyn , but also crossed the Hudson to go to Newark, New Jers...

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

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...

Having discussed one of Occidental College 's two medieval codices in a previous post , we can turn to the other: a fascinating German...

Today I learned that there will be an exhibition in Florence next year, at the Galleria dell'Accademia, called La fortuna dei Primitivi:...

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

I occasionally encounter catalogue descriptions which mention an anonymous bookplate, variously described by different cataloguers, but rec...

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...