Welcome to the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts!
The SDBM continuously aggregates and updates observations of pre-modern manuscripts drawn from over 14,000 auction and sales catalogs, inventories, catalogs from institutional and private collections, and other sources that document the sales and locations of these books from around the world.
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Leon,
Let me know if you had or have any questions.
Thanks, Leon and Mitch! I need to update my notifications so I see these posts.
I will take care of it during the next weekend. Best regards from Germany!
Provenance for https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/manuscripts/2147/ (UPenn) now back into the 19th century!
Thanks to Bill Stoneman and the Dawson catalogues at The Grolier Club we have more information about the early hisotry of SDBM_MS_2684 now at UPenn.
An 1895 sale for https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/manuscripts/24746 UPenn Codex 650.