Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

Before accepting any argument as true, even -- or especially -- if my initial inclination is to believe it, my first reaction is always to c...

Lomax-Wade collection, fol. 17 We saw last week that there are several reasons to believe that the collection of cuttings bound in 1838 into...

Last week we saw how an illuminated cutting from Lombardy could be traced to a Collectors' Corner catalogue issued in Spring 1961 by th...

  [ Source ] A few weeks ago the two items above were sold as a single lot at a provincial English auction, with an estimate of £80-120. The...

[ Source ] I cannot read languages written in non-Latin alphabets, such as Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Armenian, so I will only attempt to ca...

In the English journal The Athenæum , founded in 1828 [ Wikipedia ], is a contemporary account of the  items offered for sale in the 1838 Ot...

Before moving on the the 20th-century provenance of the manuscript(s) discussed in the previous post , I need to add an important piece of t...