Base de données des manuscrits démembrés
Archivum Codicum Manuscriptorum Disiectorum (XIV-XVI) 
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15252470

A website documenting the ReceptioGate affair is now live:👉 www.receptiogate.online This independent platform gathers verified sources,...

We are proud to announce the publication of Prof. Carla Rossi’s new peer-reviewed article in the Harvard Art Law Review (Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2025): "Biblioclasm for Profit: The Legal Implications of Dismembering Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts" This in-depth legal and ethical analysis exposes the ongoing destruction of medieval books for the benefit of the manuscript trade. The article is based on thirty years of independent research, and follows Prof. Rossi’s official

Peter Kidd’s blog Medieval Manuscripts Provenance was for years perceived as a niche tool for tracing manuscript ownership. However, a closer examination of its structure, purpose, and use by dealers reveals that the blog often functioned as an amplifier for the commercial circulation of excised leaves — folios removed from illuminated manuscripts and sold individually on the antiquarian market. The blog, which has not been updated since early 2023, lacked any formal peer-rev

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

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