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Carla Rossi und die Universität Zürich: Richtigstellung und akademischer Werdegang
In den letzten Jahren haben verschiedene Online-Plattformen das Verhältnis von Prof. Carla Rossi zur Universität Zürich verzerrt...
24 mai 20251 min de lecture


Carla Rossi and the University of Zurich: Clarification and Academic Record
Clarification Regarding Prof. Carla Rossi’s Academic Status and False Claims Circulated Online In recent years, several online sources...
24 mai 20253 min de lecture
ReceptioGate Hacker News: Academic Defamation Amplified (2025)
In April 2023, a thread titled “ReceptioGate: an adjunct professor from Zurich...” appeared on Hacker News , a platform traditionally...
24 mai 20251 min de lecture
Receptio-Rossi Affair: Response to David Rundle
In January 2023, David Rundle published a blog post on Bonae Litterae , titled “On the Receptio–Rossi Affair: the start of some personal...
24 mai 20251 min de lecture
Accusations de plagiat, textes médiévaux et ReceptioGate : réponse documentée à un “cas d’école” [receptiogate accusations plagiat textes medievaux 2025]
Depuis janvier 2023, plusieurs articles, dont celui publié par ActuaLitté intitulé « Accusations, plagiats et textes médiévaux :...
24 mai 20251 min de lecture


Un falso smascherato: Carla Rossi analizza il presunto atto di morte di Caravaggio
Vocazione di Matteo, San Luigi de' Francesi, Caravaggio Nel contesto del nostro impegno contro la falsificazione documentaria e lo...
23 mai 20251 min de lecture


The Responsibility of the Società Internazionale di Storia della Miniatura in the ReceptioGate Affair: Defamation, GDPR Violations, and Conflicts of Interest
The case now known as ReceptioGate has revealed a coordinated network of defamatory attacks against a scholar known for her thirty years...
19 mai 20251 min de lecture


Le blog « Medieval Manuscripts Provenance » de Peter Kidd : une violente campagne de diffamation contre la Prof. Carla Rossi
Préambule Entre 2022 et 2024, le nom de la Professeure Carla Rossi — historienne de l’art reconnue, philologue romaniste et directrice...
14 mai 20255 min de lecture


Peter Kidd, Medieval Manuscripts Provenance: Excised Leaves, and the Illusion of Provenance Research – 2025 Commentary
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
12 mai 20253 min de lecture


Peter Kidd: A Documented Case of Defamation and Concealment – From Giovanni Mazzarelli to #ReceptioGate
In 1979, Italian collector Giovanni Mazzarelli lawfully acquired a group of illuminated manuscripts through a private sale arranged by...
10 mai 20253 min de lecture


Recovering the Madruzzo Book of Hours – New Publication by Jordi Puig
We are proud to announce the publication of Jordi Puig’s latest book,The Madruzzo Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript Illuminated by...
7 mai 20251 min de lecture


Peter Kidd Medieval Manuscripts Provenance (mssprovenance): false claims and misuse of OProM identity
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
2 mai 20253 min de lecture


Peter Kidd Medieval Manuscripts Provenance (mssprovenance): a dormant blog once used to promote manuscript leaves, now reduced to defamation
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
2 mai 20253 min de lecture


How Peter Kidd Promoted the Destruction of the De Roucy Hours: His Collaboration with Manuscript Biblioclast Peter Kiefer
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
1 mai 20252 min de lecture


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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