A dormant blog used to promote manuscript dismemberment


 📎 Link: https://www.oprom.eu/post/peter-kidd-medieval-manuscripts-provenance-mssprovenance-a-dormant-blog-once-used-to-promote-manu

📌 The blog Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, run by Peter Kidd, has remained largely inactive in recent years—but not before being used to describe and promote dozens of dismembered manuscript leaves.

This article retraces how Kidd’s blog became a reference point for dealers and collectors, and how it played a role in the commercial visibility of dispersed leaves, often with no mention of the destruction involved.

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👉 A dormant blog once used to promote manuscript dismemberment

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