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 ...

Rather than attempt a full blog-post this week, I will just link to one that I wrote for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, that ...

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...

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...

I'm too busy to do proper blog-posts at the moment, but here's a recent find, relating to the previous posts here , here , and here ...

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

Looking through Erik von Scherling's Rotulus catalogue vol.IV (Winter, 1937) for the previous post , I came across a plate depicting a ...

Rotulus , vol.IV, no.1871 [ Source ] Erik Edzard Floris Folkard von Scherling was the younger son of the Swedish Consul at Rotterdam, w...

Browsing images of manuscripts at the Free Library, Philadelphia, I recently came across another unrecognised manuscript ( Lewis E 219 ) for...

Of all the manuscripts said to have been cut up by Otto Ege  and now scattered around the world, none is as instantly recognisable as the Be...

LACMA exterior (from Google streetview) A recent visit to LACMA (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) led to some nice surprises. One...

Those of you who subscribe to the Manuscripts on My Mind  ( MoMM ) Newsletter (and if you don't, I recommend that you do) will know abou...

Leaves of a fine copy of the Communiloquium or Summa Collationum  of  John of Wales  (alias John Waleys / Joahnnes G[u]allensis) are to be ...

The small collection of medieval leaves in Special Collections in the Library at Occidental College in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles  ...

Occidental College has an extremely appealing leaf of an English Psalter of circa 1200, containing Psalms 20:1-21:6: The fact that th...

The Ege leaves in the Occidental College collection include: Psalter; France, mid-13th century Gwara HL10 Psalms 119:136-154 Apparent...

[Continued from this post ] Looking at the original Phillipps auction catalogues from 1903 and 1911 it was possible to locate the follow...