manuscripts

The Getty Center’s ‘Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages’ Is a Visual Feast of Medieval Movement

"Accounts that are received from antiquity and repeated over and over again, then merge with eyewitness accounts and blend together in a mix of some fact informed by historical fiction, and elaborated for medieval imagination."

By Jordan Riefe

Hidden Liabilities: How Rare Manuscripts Threaten Institutional Reputations

Brett Erickson, a specialist in reputational risk and cultural asset governance, breaks down increasing reputational threats unfolding behind the glass cases of our most trusted institutions. From Naples to Washington to Oslo, Erickson traces how stolen manuscripts, smuggled antiquities and provenance blind spots are reshaping the way museums, libraries and private collections confront integrity—not just as an ideal, but as a liability, a legal threshold and a legacy at stake.

By Brett Erickson

The Walters Art Museum Shines a Light On the Toxic History of Medieval Manuscripts

"If Books Could Kill" displays the dark side of historical manuscript-making practices.

By Xinyi Ye

Book Thief Says He Stole 1,000 Unpublished Manuscripts Out of a Love of Reading

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Mexico Is Forming a New Art Crime Unit to Track Down Looted Artifacts

By Helen Holmes

Sotheby’s is Selling Rare Brontë Manuscripts, Including Emily’s Poems, in July

By Helen Holmes

Christie’s Sells Rare Deposition From Salem Witch Trials for $137K

By Alanna Martinez

Lou Reed Archives Offer a Peek Into His Creative Process

By Justin Joffe

David Foster Wallace’s Papers Set to Go Public

By Steve Huff

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