Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

NYC, Morgan Library, MS M.870.2 [ Source ] About four years ago I wrote a post in which I reproduced most of the leaves of a broken-up Anti...

University of Rochester, D.460 1353-001 [ Source ] In preparation for a manuscripts safari this summer, I am combing through online library ...

  Occasionally a provenance clue consists of the initials of the the forenames of the owner and his/her spouse, joined by a so-called "...

I have mentioned at least twice before the potential importance of distinguishing between the first day of a multi-day auction (which is how...

One of the challenges of provenance research is interpreting catalogue descriptions when there is no accompanying image to verify the identi...

[ 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...