Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

[ Source ] By chance I recently came across an article about Robert Forrer (who has been mentioned in several previous posts, e.g. here...

I ended the previous blogpost [not including its small addendum ] by mentioning the Holford Album of illuminated cuttings, which was lo...

In my previous post I suggested that the initials transcribed by a British Library cataloguer as "J. M. W.", that are inscribe...

I have been working recently on various collections of illuminations, including that of R. S. Holford [ Wikipedia ], attempting to trace ...

[ Source ] Christopher de Hamel has kindly contacted me about a previous post . He points out that a leaf from a Book of Hours in the R...

[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...