We are delighted to note the recent placement of a sumptuous Book of Hours in a U.S. library collection. Produced in Italy, almost certainly Brescia in Lombardy, c. 1490, this manuscript reflects the richness of late Quattrocento devotional art. The volume comprises 183 leaves (wants four), written in Latin for the Use of Rome, and […]
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We are proud to have recently handled papyrus manuscripts from Oxyrhynchus, which we successfully placed in a U.S. library collection. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are among the most important manuscript discoveries of the modern age. Excavated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Oxford scholars Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, the material was recovered […]