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

Official Statement – Documentation on the ReceptioGate Affair

Organisation pour la Protection des Manuscrits Médiévaux (OProM)

This page gathers all publicly available documentation concerning the ReceptioGate Affair, including academic publications, legal statements, public records, and official responses. It aims to provide transparency, accountability, and open access to verified content regarding the defamatory campaign targeting Prof. Carla Rossi, following her longstanding work on manuscript dismemberment and biblioclasm.

📚 Books and Edited Volumes

• Jordi Puig, The Madruzzo Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript Illuminated by Marie Vrelant, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2025, see the Introduction:

• https://books.google.ch/books?id=0wxZEQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA2&dq=jordi+puig+madruzzo&hl=it&source=newbks_fb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=jordi%20puig%20madruzzo&f=false

• Jordi Puig, The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment, Open Access edition, Google Books:
  🔗 https://books.google.ch/books?id=ek5ZEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=it#v=onepage&q&f=false

• Carla Rossi, Isabelle Boursier’s Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript from Mary Benson’s Collection, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024, see the Introduction:
  🔗 https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/9781527599936

• Carla Rossi, The 1879 Theft of Royal Ms 16 E VIII from the British Museum, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024:
  🔗 https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/9781527598359

• Carla Rossi, Digital Reconstruction of a Dismembered Book of Hours Illuminated by Robert Boyvin, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023:
  🔗 https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/9781527594955

• Carla Rossi, Beyond the Margins: Female Illuminators in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Ethics International Press, 2025:
  🔗 https://ethicspress.com/collections/frontpage/products/beyond-the-margins

📰 Articles and Academic Papers

• Biblioclasm for Profit and the Fetishistic Cult of Manuscript Fragments, in «Studj Romanzi», XVIII (2022), pp. 161–183.
  What is #ReceptioGate, really? A Centre’s Mission, a Smear Campaign, and the Academic Response, RECEPTIO Medium News, 2025:

• 🔗 https://medium.com/@fondazione.receptio/what-is-receptiogate-really-a-centres-mission-a-smear-campaign-and-the-academic-response-42f7b83de683
  🔗 DOI Zenodo archive: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15301976

📄 Official Academic Profile and Clarifications

• Public academic profile with full documentation and clarification regarding the defamatory campaign:
  🔗 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15248850

• Google Scholar:
  🔗 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ey6NWH4AAAAJ&hl=en

• ORCID:
  🔗 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6557-3684

⚖️ Legal Documentation and Evidence of Harassment

• Death threats received via email :
  🔗 https://www.profcarlarossi.info/_files/ugd/494184_8582d827636f4514956f3e79677224fe.pdf

• Falsified obituary published online (archived):
  🔗 https://web.archive.org/web/20230127205042/https://www.deinadieu.ch/todesanzeigen/carla-rossi/

• Fake news article removed from Kath.ch (by Raphael Rauch, containing disinformation prompted by Peter Kidd):
  🔗 https://www.kath.ch/newsd/carla-rossis-fake-institut-wirbt-mit-alibi-bibliothek-und-drogenanwalt/ (archived content, removed from main site)

📢 Public Responses and Institutional Communications

• OProM Substack – Documented timeline of the defamation campaign against Prof. Carla Rossi:
  🔗 https://oprom.substack.com/p/documented-timeline-of-the-defamation

• AboutArt – Manoscritti medievali europei a prezzi stracciati sul web. Un appello per la tutela di beni culturali tra i più preziosi, by Carla Rossi, 20 December 2022:
  🔗 https://www.aboutartonline.com/manoscritti-medievali-europei-a-prezzi-stracciati-sul-web-un-appello-per-la-tutela-di-beni-culturali-tra-i-piu-preziosi/

🎥 Media and Educational Channels

• Official RECEPTIO YouTube channel:
  🔗 https://www.youtube.com/@receptio

🔍 On the Involvement of the Antiquarian Lobby

• Prof. Carla Rossi has denounced the dismemberment and commercial promotion of medieval manuscripts by a network of dealers, including Peter Kidd and Peter Kiefer.
  Her work has identified the origins and sales of dismembered leaves (e.g. Book of Hours of Louis de Roucy, also known as Courtanvaux Hours), and documented their reconstruction through academic publications and legal reports.

• The so-called plagiarism accusations were a retaliatory tactic by individuals indirectly affected by her legal denunciations. These accusations have been refuted by a legal expert report submitted to the Federal Administrative Court in Switzerland.