Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

Some time ago I saw a curious cutting at Maggs Bros . It was hard to know if the composition was pure fantasy, or whether the (?)processi...

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...

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

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

After reading the  blog post about a manuscript in Liège with the arms of Jean(?) Budé, Dominique Vanwijnsberghe kindly told me about a lat...

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 ...

By coincidence, this week I came across what appears to be a companion volume to the Prayerbook discussed in a recent post . [Throughout th...

The University of Liège has recently digitized some of its most important illuminated manuscripts. Among them is a very unusual volume, MS W...

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

For several years I have wondered to whom this bookplate belongs: New York, Public Library, Spencer MS 76, fol.i verso Image: Digital Sc...

I have just discovered that Henri Jougla de Morenas (continued by Raoul de Warren),  Grand armorial de France: Catalogue général des armoiri...

I am currently trying to identify some arms that appear twice in a Book of Hours, made in Paris(?) in the first half of the 16th century. Th...

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

The Smithfield Decretals (British Library, Royal MS. 10 E.iv) is an exceptionally large (c.450 x 285mm.) and lavish (including more than 600...

Four miniatures from a Book of Hours illuminated by Willem Vrelant and the Fastolf Master (now Paris, Bibliothèque de l' Arsenal, ms. 57...