Addenda and Corrigenda

▼

Membra disiecta

▼

Dispersed collections

▼
Sunday, 29 November 2020

Sotheby Manuscripts at Sotheby's

›
When I first worked for the Bodleian, in the mid-1990s, I became aware of an issue that still causes trouble.  If, hypothetically, the Bodle...
1 comment:
Sunday, 22 November 2020

The Dispersal of the Miniatures of Édouard Kann

›
Édouard Kann [ Source ] The catalogue of the collection of miniatures of Édouard Kann has 46 entries for Western manuscripts (some entries d...
2 comments:
Sunday, 15 November 2020

A Second Holford Cutting in Lisbon

›
  Gulbenkian Museum, M.35 Before doing the promised review of the new catalogue of the Gulbenkian Museum's illuminated western manuscrip...
Sunday, 8 November 2020

Another Holford Cutting, Now in Lisbon

›
Lisbon, Gulbenkian Museum, Inv. M33 In past blogs I have shown how Robert Holford bought an album of illuminated cuttings, most or all of w...
Sunday, 1 November 2020

The Value of the V&A's Cutting of St Giustina disputing with Maximian

›
V&A, 817-1894 [ Source ] The miniature above, bought by the V&A Museum for £100 from Charles Fairfax Murray in 1894, is valuable bot...
Sunday, 25 October 2020

Ottley-Simes-Murray

›
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919) Self-portrait [ Source ] The previous post discussed some cuttings from a French vernacular prose romanc...
Saturday, 17 October 2020

Cuttings from a Prose Romance in French

›
In the blogpost two weeks ago I reproduced a miniature from a 14th-century French manuscript, shown above, without saying much about it. It...