Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

In a couple of previous posts ( here and here ) I discussed the privately-printed catalogues of the hugely important collection of medieval...

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

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...

I recently found that Gustav Heinrich Becker's Catalogi bibliothecarum antiqui (Bonn, 1885) is available  online . It provides tran...

I occasionally encounter a manuscript with a circular paper label printed in blue with the words "Church Congress Exhibition", or ...

In response to the post about the Ashburnham-Libri manuscripts catalogue , one reader asked me about catalogues of the other Ashburnham manu...

Jean-Luc Deuffic has added an extremely useful page called Catalogues de vente numérisés contenant des manuscrits médiévaux to one of his w...

A full set of digital images have recently been made available of a Book of Hours of the Use of Reims, now in Houston. It was alluded to at...

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...

The always-interesting Pecia blog has the beginnings of an investigation into a book of hours apparently once owned by a member of the Larg...

In the Catalogue de la bibliothèque et des collections de feu Crosse, directeur du Journal de conchyliologie dont la vente aux enchères pub...

Going straight to an entry in the edited inventories of the Duke de Berry without reading the introduction can lead to some confusion. Gui...

The Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge Dumenil (1847), written by his son-in-law Jules Labarte , is avail...

The 1882 auction catalogue of the Firmin-Didot collection is available online. The section on manuscripts (nos. 1-45) includes many importa...

Bodleian, MS. Auct. D. 4. 6 is a 12th-century English Glossed Psalter, well known for its initial apparently naming the scribe/artist and...

I have just spent a day at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. A list of Western MSS still in the library between the auction...