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Sunday, 28 February 2016

"The Property of a Gentleman": Gustav Nebehay (1881–1935)

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Some months ago, Consuelo Dutschke very generously gave me some old auction and dealer catalogues, including Sotheby's, 14-16 June, 1...
Saturday, 20 February 2016

Le Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre 1939-1945

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The previous post concerned a small number of illuminated manuscripts recovered from the Nazis and exhibited in Paris in 1946, described...
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Monday, 15 February 2016

Some Rothschild Manuscripts in 1946

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Regular readers will know that I have a particular interest in collections of manuscripts formed and/or dispersed in the first half of the 2...
Saturday, 13 February 2016

Otto Ege's First Manuscript

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In his 2013 study of Otto Ege's medieval manuscripts (reviewed  here ), Scott Gwara has discussed an incomplete 15th-century Italian Boo...
Saturday, 6 February 2016

A New Cutting by the So-Called Master of Monza

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In a previous post I reproduced some of the series of late 13th-century cuttings from a volume of saints' lives, formerly attributed to...
Saturday, 30 January 2016

A Dismembered Prayerbook from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson

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Christie's recently held its first "Online Only" auction of medieval manuscript leaves and cuttings. I visited them while they...
Saturday, 23 January 2016

Donato and Ercole de Silva

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