Addenda and Corrigenda

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Membra disiecta

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Dispersed collections

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Saturday, 30 January 2021

Cuttings Supposedly From the Certosa at Pavia and the Cathedral of Como: A Previously Unnoticed Sale

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The famous Celotti auction at Christie's in 1825 consisted largely of very late 15th-century and 16th-century papal illuminations from t...
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Saturday, 23 January 2021

More ex-Hachette Illuminations at Yale University Art Gallery

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As it turned out, there was only one day when Oxford libraries reopened after the Christmas and New Year break, before they had to close aga...
Saturday, 16 January 2021

Contemporary Descriptions of Ottley's Portfolios

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Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) [ Source ] A little while ago I was very pleased to find a contemporary description of Ottley's portfolio of m...
Saturday, 9 January 2021

The Hoe Album IV: More Ottley Identifications

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In previous posts we have seen that five groups of cuttings from the Hoe Album, now at the Houghton Library, Harvard, can be confidently ide...
Saturday, 2 January 2021

The Hoe Album, III: Payne

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My primary interest in the Hoe Album, until recently, was not Nebridio: it was the border cutting from the Murano Gradual, discussed here . ...
Saturday, 26 December 2020

The Hoe Album II: More Cuttings Illuminated by Nebridio

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Last week we saw that two cuttings illuminated by Frate Nebridio passed from the Ottley sale in 1838, to Robert Hoe, and eventually to the ...
Sunday, 20 December 2020

The Hoe Album, I: Frate Nebridio

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Following my blogpost in September in which I virtually reunited a cutting of an illuminated border at Harvard, with an historiated initial...