Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

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

At the recent TEFAF art fair at Maastricht, one of the items that piqued my curiosity was a very handsome copy of Peter Lombard on the ...

In connection with some work I am doing for Corpus Christi College, Oxford, I have had reason to look at a number of printed books, includin...

Sometimes the most unassuming fragments turn out to be among the most informative. Looking at images of recently-digitised manuscript fragme...

Looking through old photos taken on a visit to Bristol Reference Library I came across my pictures of their MS 11.

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

[ Source ] In October 2012, when complete digitisation of the Shaftesbury Psalter (BL, Lansdowne MS 383) had been put online, the proven...

Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 751, back pastedown (detail) Anne Korteweg kindly emailed me about my most recent post , and with h...

In the previous post I suggested that a Book of Hours now at Smith College was written for Philip the Good. If he did indeed own it, it did...

The name "Ormesby" immediately suggests to any manuscripts specialist the Bodleian Library's wonderful Ormesby Psalter (MS. Do...

The Bishop of Norwich and Robert de Ormesby (?) (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 366, fol.9v (Beatus page, detail). The Ormesby Psalter, on...

Almost exactly four years ago I posted a reference to an unidentified Bible from Norwich Cathedral, which I found in an 1899 auction catalo...

There is a detailed analysis of a variety of marks found in a single book here: https://msuprovenance.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/problems-in-...

The literature on the "Bohun" Bible suggests that the parent volume was written perhaps for a nunnery, perhaps in East Anglia, and...

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

While in Los Angeles this summer I enquired of several local institutions about their holdings, and got a very helpful response from Emma...

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...

A query on the very useful " can you help ?" section of the CERL provenance website reveals a book from Ose...

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