Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

On a visit to the Houghton Library in 2018 I went through a box of miscellaneous single leaves, containing all sorts of interesting items. O...

This week's post is really just a series of observations, followed by a puzzle to which I hope a reader might be able to offer a solutio...

Rossi has published another document on her Academia.edu page , in which she refers to my "unjustified vendetta" against her. I th...

Regular readers will know that I have been trying to trace leaves from a late 15th-century Book of Hours with unusual initials "MdM...

For a few years I have been aware of leaves of a Breviary (of which an example is shown above) which had a colophon with the name of the scr...

In a previous blogpost about "Another Hachette-Lehman-Yale Cutting" ( here ) I referred to the catalogue of an auction held in Par...

The Office of the Dead is a text whose overall format is pretty consistent, but whose details vary significantly, according to different lit...