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In 1979, Italian collector Giovanni Mazzarelli legally acquired several illuminated manuscripts through a Sotheby’s private sale. Yet...

The antiquarian market continues to legitimise the destruction of manuscripts by describing excised leaves as “fragments.” Yet this term,...

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

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

Siamo lieti di presentare il nuovo volume della rivista Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts (TCLA), ora disponibile anche in...

We are pleased to announce that all volumes of the academic journal Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts (TCLA, ISSN Online:...

Siamo lieti di annunciare che tutti i volumi della nostra rivista accademica Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts (TCLA, ISSN...

We are pleased to announce the publication of The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript...

We are proud to announce the publication of The Love Knot: The Book of Hours of Hendrik III van Nassau and Mencía de Mendoza , authored...

We are proud to announce the publication of Digital Reconstruction of a Dismembered Book of Hours Illuminated by Robert Boyvin , authored...

We are pleased to announce the publication of Isabelle Boursier’s Book of Hours: A Dismembered Manuscript from Mary Benson’s Collection...

Prof. Carla Rossi Publishes Beyond the Margins : A Landmark Study on Female Illuminators in Medieval Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch...

ISFiDa is pleased to announce the publication of The 1879 Theft of Royal Ms 16 E VIII from the British Museum: Wars and Tolkien’s...