Sunday, 12 March 2017
Another Forrer Bible Historiale Cutting?
On my way back from seeing the current exhibition of manuscripts in Rouen (perhaps the subject of a future post?), I visited the Musée Marmottan yesterday for the first time in about 20 years, to look at the Wildenstein leaves and cuttings, about which I've written several times before (e.g. here).
Saturday, 4 March 2017
The Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, Winter 1926-27 [Part II] - Addendum 2
In a previous post I identified one of the leaves that was exhibited at the 1926-27 BFAC exhibition.
A private collector who owns another leaf from this volume (shown above) has contacted me and told me that his leaf was sold at Sotheby's, 2 Dec 2003, lot 26. I had annotated my copy of this catalogue with references to several other sales, which enables me to provide a much more detailed provenance for the parent volume and some of the individual leaves:
Sunday, 26 February 2017
The Texas Gutenburg Bible
I've just watched a good lecture, by Eric White, analysing the provenance of the copy of the Gutenburg Bible now in the Harry Ransom Center, at Austin, Texas. Despite concerning a printed book, the lecture combines analysis of the most of my favourite clues to a manuscript's provenance: added decoration, handwritten additions, and entries in modern printed catalogues.
For example, there is this inscription, which (as Neil Ker pointed out) indicates that it was in Carthusian ownership:
You can watch the lecture on YouTube here.
For example, there is this inscription, which (as Neil Ker pointed out) indicates that it was in Carthusian ownership:
You can watch the lecture on YouTube here.
Saturday, 18 February 2017
George Jackson (1692-1763) of Livorno
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Saturday, 21 January 2017
Fragments of a Dismembered Bible Historiale
In December 2015 Bloomsbury auctions offered a cutting "showing the murder of a youth" (lot 61 in the catalogue), attributed to "the early fourteenth-century husband and wife illuminator-team Richard and Jean [sic] de Montbaston":
The text was not precisely identified, and the iconography only tentatively so: "The parent text here may well be from a Bible translation, with part of Proverbs, and if correct, then the scene may represent Cain and Abel".
The text was not precisely identified, and the iconography only tentatively so: "The parent text here may well be from a Bible translation, with part of Proverbs, and if correct, then the scene may represent Cain and Abel".
Saturday, 14 January 2017
Bible Leaves in Philadelphia, London, and Paris: Addendum
Sunday, 8 January 2017
The Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, Winter 1926-27 [Part II] - Addendum
In a previous post about the 1926-27 BFAC exhibition I was unable to identify this pair of Italian leaves:
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