How the scholar who reported stolen manuscript leaves to Italian authorities became the target of a years-long online campaign. ZURICH - June 21, 2026 - PRLog -- The case centres on Turin MS E.V.5, a sixteenth-century manuscript preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino. Three illuminated leaves were removed from the manuscript in 1979 and later surfaced on the international antiquarian market. The leaves were subsequently offered for sale through Sotheby's in London...

The recovery of leaves removed from Turin MS E.V.5 forms one of the most important chapters of ReceptioGate 2026: Peter Kidd, Turin MS E.V.5, Sotheby's, and the Campaign Against a Scholar. The book explores how these leaves entered the market and why their history matters for cultural-heritage protection. The ReceptioGate Affair 2026 New Evidence on Peter Kidd, the Sotheby's Sale of Stolen Leaves from Turin MS E.V.5, and the Defamation Campaign that Followed, by Jordi Puig The ReceptioGate...

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 criminal one...