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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 mai1 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 mai5 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...
12 mai1 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 mai3 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 mai1 min de lecture


Peter Kidd Medieval Manuscripts Provenance (mssprovenance): false claims and misuse of OProM identity
On 11 June 2023, the blog Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, managed by Peter Kidd and publicly associated with the handle mssprovenance,...
2 mai2 min de lecture


Peter Kidd Medieval Manuscripts Provenance (mssprovenance): a dormant blog once used to promote manuscript leaves, now reduced to defamation
The blog Medieval Manuscripts Provenance , managed by Peter Kidd and hosted at mssprovenance.blogspot.com , has been inactive for over a...
2 mai2 min de lecture


How Peter Kidd Promoted the Destruction of the De Roucy Hours: His Collaboration with Manuscript Biblioclast Peter Kiefer
In 2009, German antiquarian Peter Kiefer initiated the systematic dismemberment of the Book of Hours of Louis de Roucy — an intact,...
1 mai1 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 mai1 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 mai3 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.2 min de lecture


What is ReceptioGate? A Documented Timeline of Events
## Academic Publications (with ISBN and DOI) ### 1. The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript...
29 avr.2 min de lecture


The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment
Based on two years of research, this book documents the timeline, mechanisms, and consequences of the most sustained academic smear...
29 avr.1 min de lecture
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