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Eduardo11 started A. Cretaine - Vogt

about 1 month

I don't know how to do it (nor I really have the time for it) but I noticed the following catalogue could be of relevance:

Catalogue des livres rares manuscrits et imprimés formant le cabinet de feu M. Ch. Vogt (https://books.google.de/books?id=avxcAAAAcAAJ)
I am so far unaware of any potentially annotated copies of the said catalogue, but in case it is of help, these are the hard copies I have been able to locate
https://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2954700~S1
https://pid.uba.uva.nl/ark:/88238/b1990019373340205131

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lcleaver posted in Philadelphia related progress

about 2 months

Today I created (https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/manuscripts/28866), giving a bit of firm provenance to a MS at UPenn.

Thanks Laura. All of the Philadelphia medieval mss. should now have records on OPenn but we've only managed to enter PMA, Temple, Delaware, Swarthmore, LCP, College of Physicians, Rosenbach, Villanova, Chemical Heritage, Lehigh, La Salle, and Haveford in full to SDBM. Only 1/3 of Free Library and 1/10 of Bryn Mawr have been entered and it would be great to finish these!

From time to time I manage to add to records for manuscripts that are now in Philadelphia. I'm starting this thread to keep track of some of this progress, but please add to it.
Today Angeline Rais and I managed to link up Rosenthal and Leighton records to track the early provenance of Free Library Lewis E 39 (SDBM_MS_28478).

I'm searching for the incipit Ave lignum excelsum glorie in the Psalter of the Virgin. If you know of any please notify mastones@hotmail.com Thanks!

This source is currently incomplete, but the auction results are online (link in the source) if someone feels like taking it on! https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/sources/12573