Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

[ Source ] I have written several times about the need to locate multiple annotated copies of auction catalogues, because the annotations in...

It goes without saying that in order to trace the provenance of a manuscript (whether it be a codex, leaf, or cutting) from an auction to it...

[This, and all but the first of the next 9 images below, are from the Robert Lehman papers, Robert Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museu...

Latin Fragment D.1 (detail) This and the following images reproduced by courtesy of the Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, Unive...

In a  previous post  I showed that a cutting of an initial 'U' with  St John the Evangelist  by the Master of the Brussels Initials ...

As mentioned in the previous post , much of my earliest research on illuminated manuscripts concerned 13th-century English Psalters, and alt...

Many years ago, I worked on a group of early 13th-century English Psalters, some of which include a  hymn or series of prayers to the Virgin...