Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

[Image by courtesy of Vassar College] It was in preparation for a tour of CT, MA, and NY libraries in 2014 that I found out that Va...

A couple of years ago I spent a week at the Lilly Library to photograph all their leaves and cuttings, and have periodically been using t...

In a previous post I looked at two illuminated leaves once owned by the dealer Raphael Stora; today I briefly mention two more.

[ Source ] In a post almost exactly five years ago, I mentioned that a well-known Psalter-Hours seems to have been owned by a nun, a...

The Master of the Murano Gradual is believed, on strong evidence, to have worked for one or both of the Camaldolese houses on the isl...

Winged skeleton holding a scythe In a previous post about illuminated leaves salvaged from a Book of Hours after the now-famous flood ...

I recently found a very interesting blogpost written in 2014 by David Whitesell, of the University of Virginia, describing the acquisiti...