Carla Rossi is a Romance philologist, art historian, and palaeographer. As one of the honorary members of the Organisation pour la Protection des manuscrits Médiévaux (OProM), she has led pioneering research on the destruction, dispersion, and digital reconstruction of illuminated manuscripts across Europe. She is also the creator of the Archivum Codicum Manuscriptorum Disiectorum, the database compiled over thirty years of independent research and now freely accessible through the OProM. This resource documents hundreds of dispersed codices and serves as a foundation for reconstruction initiatives.

For over three decades, Prof. Rossi has investigated manuscript fragmentation practices, with particular focus on female monastic production, codicological integrity, and biblioclasm for profit. She has developed protocols for identifying dismembered folios in private collections and online marketplaces.

Prof. Rossi has authored numerous studies on manuscript culture, medieval women's book history, and philological methodology. Her recent work includes:

- Beyond the Margins. Female Illuminators in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Ethics International Press, 2025)  
- The 1879 Theft of Royal MS 16 E VIII (Cambridge Scholars 2024)  

Through OProM, she continues to coordinate investigations, collaborate with archives and libraries, and raise awareness of the ethical challenges posed by manuscript dispersion.

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​Jordi Puig has dedicated a book to the violent hate campaign orchestrated against her by art dealers she had reported, a campaign accompanied by serious death threats (circumstances that eventually led to two legal proceedings). The volume, entitled The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment, is available in Open Access at the following link: https://books.google.ch/books?id=ek5ZEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=it#v=onepage&q&f=false.