Fragments of a Dismembered Bible Historiale

In December 2015 Bloomsbury auctions offered a cutting "showing the murder of a youth" (lot 61 in the catalogue), attributed to "the early fourteenth-century husband and wife illuminator-team Richard and Jean [sic] de Montbaston":

The text was not precisely identified, and the iconography only tentatively so: "The parent text here may well be from a Bible translation, with part of Proverbs, and if correct, then the scene may represent Cain and Abel".

Bible Leaves in Philadelphia, London, and Paris: Addendum

Further information about the Hastère Bible.

The Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, Winter 1926-27 [Part II] - Addendum

In a previous post about the 1926-27 BFAC exhibition I was unable to identify this pair of Italian leaves:

The Gospel of the Wife of Jesus

Perhaps the most intruguing manuscript provenance story of the year was the unmasking of the so-called Gospel of the Wife of Jesus papyrus as a forgery, in The Atlantic, here. I thought that it would be worth bringing to the attention of anyone who has not already read it: it is a compelling read.

The Elmhirst-Courtanvaux Hours

Ever since encountering one of his manuscripts at Sam Fogg's, circa 2000, I have had an interest in medieval manuscripts from the collection of Harry A. Walton (d.2007), a dairy farmer of Covington, Virginia. They can be recognised by his purple ink-stamp, of which I show two examples here, and by comparison with the descriptions in the Supplement to de Ricci's Census.

One More Leaf from the "Hastière" Bible

Today I found another.

Two More Leaves from the "Hastière" Bible

As recently as October, I wrote about some leaves and cuttings from a Bible that I refer to as the "Hastière Bible", and noted that "more will doubtless surface". Les Enluminures have kindly contacted me to let me know that they have recently acquired two more leaves from the Bible.