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From Bloomsbury to Sotheby’s: The Destruction and Sale of the De Roucy Hours (and Peter Kidd’s -mssprovenance - Part in It)
The systematic destruction of the De Roucy Hours began in autumn 2009, shortly after the manuscript was sold in its entirety at...
1 mai 20251 min de lecture
The Case of the De Roucy Hours: How Peter Kidd (aka “mssprovenance”) Contributed to the Dismemberment and Trade of a Medieval Book of Hours
The Book of Hours now known as the De Roucy Hours—formerly labelled the Courtanvaux-Elmhirst Hours—is a telling case of modern...
1 mai 20253 min de lecture
ReceptioGate: Official Documents and Academic Response to the Defamation Campaign
The so-called #ReceptioGate refers to the defamatory campaign launched between late 2022 and early 2024 against Prof. Carla Rossi,...
30 avr. 20252 min de lecture
What is ReceptioGate? A Documented Timeline of Events
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
29 avr. 20253 min de lecture
The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment
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
29 avr. 20252 min de lecture
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