Addenda and Corrigenda

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Membra disiecta

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Dispersed collections

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Sunday, 30 December 2018

Cuttings by the Monza Master [I]

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In the past few weeks the first volume of the catalogue of the McCarthy collection has been published [1]. The collection includes a...
Saturday, 22 December 2018

Byzantine Evangelist Portraits

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[ Source ] I do not usually stray into the realm of Byzantine manuscripts but I make an exception today. Three full-page miniatures of t...
Saturday, 15 December 2018

The Dispersal of the Forrer Collection (and a Postscript on the Arenberg Psalter)

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Many of the leaves and cuttings I encounter can be traced back to the collection of Robert Forrer, who we have encountered in several pr...
Sunday, 9 December 2018

The Pontifical of Michel Guibé [II]

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[Image credit: see below] Having identified the patron of the Pontifical of Michel Guibé, it quickly became apparent that he is rather...
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Saturday, 1 December 2018

The Pontifical of Michel Guibé [I]

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In 2007, after a day in spent looking at illuminated leaves and cuttings at the Princeton Museum of Art, I walked past a general antiques...
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Saturday, 24 November 2018

Leaves from a 14th-century Dominican Lectionary

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In the last few years I have seen a number of leaves from a volume written in a strange "prescissa" or "sine pedibus"...
Saturday, 17 November 2018

Miniatures by William de Brailes

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[click to enlarge] One of the major works by William de Brailes is a series of full-page miniatures, now divided between the Walters Art...