Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

A few weeks ago I wrote about a single leaf with a Tree of Affinity, now in a private collection. Since then I have had the opportunity to ...

Greg Clark has kindly contacted me, sending me a scan of a slide found among the those of the late Anne van Buren, depicting two more of the...

One of the miniatures in the private collection that I am cataloguing is this leaf with a fine miniature of a Tree of Affinity: I alread...

Michal Habdank-Wojnicz, alias Wilfrid Voynich I have been sent by its publisher a copy of  The Voynich Manuscript: The World's Most ...

Following my blog post about Henry Huth, Ian Jackson contacted me with the following amusing note about his son Alfred (shown above), wh...

Mark Lansburgh [ Source ] Four leaves of the so-called Knyvett Hours (of which two other leaves with miniatures were sold at Sotheby...

On a recent Saturday in New York I visited the Public Library and examined a few manuscripts that were - understandably - not considered ...