Base de données des manuscrits démembrés
Archivum Codicum Manuscriptorum Disiectorum (XIV-XVI) 
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A website documenting the ReceptioGate affair is now live:👉 www.receptiogate.online This independent platform gathers verified sources,...

In 2023, the website Retraction Watch published a short post referencing the so-called “ReceptioGate” and mentioning Prof. Carla Rossi....

ReceptioGate is a case of transnational criminal activity connected to the black market in cultural property, in which allegations of plagiarism were used as a weapon of mass distraction. It concerns a well-established system operating on three interconnected levels. 1. The Original Crime: Dismemberment and Laundering At the centre of the case are real historical artefacts, such as the leaves stolen in 1979 from Turin manuscript E.V.5 and the leaf removed from the Antiphonary

In den letzten Jahren haben verschiedene Online-Plattformen das Verhältnis von Prof. Carla Rossi zur Universität Zürich verzerrt...

Clarification Regarding Prof. Carla Rossi’s Academic Status and False Claims Circulated Online In recent years, several online sources...

In April 2023, a thread titled “ReceptioGate: an adjunct professor from Zurich...” appeared on Hacker News , a platform traditionally...

In January 2023, David Rundle published a blog post on Bonae Litterae , titled “On the Receptio–Rossi Affair: the start of some personal...

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

We are proud to announce the publication of Jordi Puig’s latest book,The Madruzzo Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript Illuminated by...

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 systematic destruction of the De Roucy Hours began in autumn 2009, shortly after the manuscript was sold in its entirety at...

The Book of Hours now known as the De Roucy Hours—formerly labelled the Courtanvaux-Elmhirst Hours—is a telling case of modern...