Universities and public research funding agencies have one fundamental job: to recognize and evaluate evidence. Yet, for the past few years, the Swiss academic establishment—specifically the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)—has performed a spectacular intellectual somersault. They poured immense bureaucratic energy and public funds into investigating a manufactured, fake scandal, while completely protecting a real, lucrative, and cri

ReceptioGate is not fundamentally a plagiarism controversy. It is a case of transnational criminal activity linked to the illicit circulation of cultural property, in which allegations of plagiarism served as a powerful distraction from the underlying issues. At its core lies a well-established system operating across three interconnected levels. 1. The Original Crime: Dismemberment and Laundering At the heart of the affair are genuine historical artefacts, including the leav

Prof. Carla Rossi pubblica sulla Harvard Art Law Review un’indagine giuridica sullo smembramento dei codici miniati Testo: È stato pubblicato nel primo numero della Harvard Art Law Review (2025) il nuovo articolo accademico della Prof.ssa Carla Rossi, direttrice scientifica dell’Istituto ISFiDA, intitolato: 📘 Biblioclasm for Profit: The Legal Implications of Dismembering Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts . Basato su trent’anni di ricerche indipendenti e sulla denunci

Fine del receptiogate Il libro di Jordi Puig è stato depositato legalmente presso la BnF Chi lavora con serietà e rigore non diffama con...

ReceptioGate is not fundamentally a plagiarism controversy. It is a case of transnational criminal activity linked to the illicit circulation of cultural property, in which allegations of plagiarism served as a powerful distraction from the underlying issues. At its core lies a well-established system operating across three interconnected levels. 1. The Original Crime: Dismemberment and Laundering At the heart of the affair are genuine historical artefacts, including the leav

For years, ReceptioGate was described as a controversy involving plagiarism and academic misconduct. The documentary evidence suggests a different interpretation. The affair developed in parallel with investigations concerning manuscript leaves removed from historic codices, the international market through which those leaves circulated, and the interests connected to that trade. At the centre of the case are the leaves stolen from Turin manuscript E.V.5 and the leaf removed

Diffamazione, minacce di morte, odio social, mercato dei manoscritti medievali e complicità istituzionali Il caso #ReceptioGate ha messo...

Version A ReceptioGate is a case of transnational criminal activity connected to the black market in cultural property, in which allegations of plagiarism were used to divert attention from a far more serious issue. At the centre of the affair stand historical artefacts that were removed from manuscripts and later circulated through the international antiquarian market, including the leaves stolen in 1979 from Turin manuscript E.V.5 and the leaf removed from the Antiphonary o

The blog Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, operated by Peter Kidd under the alias mssprovenance, was once regarded as a casual resource for bibliographic curiosities in the field of manuscript studies. In its early years, the blog presented auction highlights, scattered notes on codicological features, and updates on manuscript leaves appearing in the antiquarian trade. Over time, however, the blog's function evolved. As Prof. Carla Rossi and the Organisation pour la Protectio

Peter Kidd, a British manuscripts dealer operating under the label mssprovenance, has for years maintained a blog titled Medieval Manuscripts Provenance. Once perceived as an amateur resource on manuscript history, this blog has recently come under scrutiny for its role in promoting and legitimising the trade of dismembered illuminated manuscripts. The most striking case is that of the so-called De Roucy Hours, a richly illuminated Book of Hours attributed to an illuminator f

The term #ReceptioGate does not refer to an academic dispute. It refers to the campaign of harassment, defamation, and character assassination that followed the public documentation of stolen and dismembered medieval manuscripts circulating on the international antiquarian market. At the centre of the affair are three illuminated leaves removed in 1979 from manuscript E.V.5 of the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino. After disappearing from the manuscript, the leaves