Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

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My fourth-ever blog post , back in December 2010, concerned a dismembered 14th-century Italian illuminated manuscript, which I named ...

[image courtesy of Sokol Books] I recently received a copy of a catalogue of incunabula offered by Sokol Books ( link to full PDF ), in ...

My previous two posts concern the provenance of an Apocalypse manuscript owned by Henry Huth. As with most books from the Huth library,...

[This post continues from the previous one ] Tongerlo Abbey -- note the arms in the top left corner. [As always, click images to enlar...

[ Source ] The image above comes from a manuscript Apocalypse, fully digitised on the British Library website, and soon to be publishe...

Two years ago I wrote about a prayerbook that had belonged to Henry Yates Thompson. I mentioned that it had an inscription apparently in...