Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

During the past few years I have tried hard to verify the identity the woman whose manuscript illuminations were auctioned anonymously at...

"Ego Ioh(ann)es sc(ri)psi hunc librum" Baltimore, WAM, MS W.761 fol. 1r [ Source ] The surviving volumes of the Beaupré Antip...

The first edition of David Pearson's, Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook  (1994) has been a frequent source of help to m...

Augustus Wollaston Franks [ Source ] British bookplates are often identified by the name "Franks" and a number. This refers ...

A year ago I downloaded a very large number of images of illuminated manuscripts in French provincial libraries, and have been working th...

For any readers who will be in France in April and who have not already heard about it, I thought it would be worth bringing to their attent...

Here's another cutting to add to those listed in a previous blogpost,  here . It is Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 201.13g...