Collecting, Collectors, and the Book Trade

An important and exciting collection of 45 essays which contribute much to our understanding of the collecting of the written and printed word.

Presented on the occasion of Richard A. Linenthal’s seventieth birthday in June 2026, this book is a tribute to his learning, his passion, his friendship, and his capacity to enthuse and inspire others. In a 50-year career as an antiquarian bookseller, first with Bernard Quaritch Ltd., then latterly under his own name, Richard has found a home for many of the most important books to have passed through the trade. Equally happy working with institutions and private collectors, Richard’s enthusiasm and friendship have been central to building collections around the world. His influence and impact can be seen in libraries across the UK and the US, but also in Japan, where he was central to the development of both academic and private libraries. Among the contributors are collectors, friends, family, colleagues, librarians, curators, and scholars and the contributions are as varied as Richard’s own interests, encompassing book history, the book trade, antiquities, manuscript studies, provenance research and library history. An important and exciting collection of 45 essays which contribute much to our understanding of the collecting of the written and printed word.

For Richard A. Linenthal
Edward Potten & Satoko Tokunaga

Introduction
Nicholas Poole-Wilson

1 · ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS

Images of the Destruction, Salvage, and Restoration of Books in the Bible moralisée
Lucy Freeman Sandler

Greater than the Sum of its Parts: A Previously Unstudied Sequence of Miniatures Illustrating Jean Mielot’s Romuléon
Scot McKendrick

The Powis Hours and the Daughters of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland
Michelle P. Brown

The Fitton Hours at Keio University Library
Takami Matsuda

Iconographic Disjunction in the Ruskin Psalter/Collect-Hours:

A Flemish Illuminated Manuscript of c. 1470−1480
James H. Marrow

2 · MANUSCRIPTS, TEXTS, AND SCRIBES

A Man of Sound Mind: The Last Will and Testament of Julius Pompeianus
Gifford Combs

Tracing Modifications in a Script: The Maurdramnus Script of Corbie
David Ganz

An Illustrated Riddle and the Teaching of Vergil in Twelfth-Century Gembloux
Robert Babcock

A Poet-Prince’s Payment to a Scribe
Henri Schiller

The Benedictional of Robert de Clercq, Abbot of Les Dunes (Cambridge University Library, MS Nn.4.1)
Patrick Zutshi

A Newly Discovered Work by Mellin de Saint-Gelais: ‘Espitre de la vertue d’amitie et de paix Au Roy mon souverain seigneur’
Eugenio Maria Donadoni

Philip Absalom: A Nineteenth-Century Scribe and Artist
A. S. G. Edwards

3 · FRAGMENTS AND BINDINGS

Fragments of Virgil
Christopher de Hamel

An Early Eleventh-Century Musical Fragment from Christ Church, Canterbury
Susan Rankin

Fragments and Waste Leaves of Incunabula in Eton College Library
John Goldfinch

Stationery Bindings: A Law Story
Paul Halliday

Printed Fragments in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Bookbindings
David Pearson

Thomas Hearne’s Manuscript and Printed Fragments
H. R. Woudhuysen

4 · XYLOGRAPHY AND EARLY PRINTING

Dating Single Leaf Prints: The Mount of Olives of the Mazarine Bible
Edward Potten

Spending Fragments of Time with Early Proof Corrections
Lotte Hellinga

Exemplaires disparu: In Search of Maffeo Pinelli’s Mainz Bible of 1462
Eric Marshall White

On Profit and Gatherings: Reading a Colophon of Nicolaus Wola and Badius Ascensius
Kristian Jensen

Escape from San Zanipolo
Martin Davies

English Xylographic Folded Almanacs
Kathleen Doyle

Gutenberg Portraiture in Pre-War Monuments
Margaret Lane Ford

5 · COLLECTING AND COLLECTORS

To Found an Academic Library in the Isle of Man: The Catalogue of Lord Fairfax’s Shipment of Printed Books in 1659
Nicholas Poole-Wilson

The Right Honourable Thomas Grenville and the ‘Perfect Book’
Karen Limper-Herz

The Gift of Books after the Great Kanto Earthquake
Satoko Tokunaga

The Acquisition and Deaccession of Two and a Half Tons of Sir Thomas Phillipps’ Manuscripts
Martin Schoyen

Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern Manuscripts: A Handlist of the Collection of C. H. St John Hornby
William P. Stoneman

6 · THE BOOK TRADE

An Unrecorded English Frankfurt Fair Catalogue, 1617
Giles Mandelbrote

Dear Mr Harper, Dear Mr Goldschmidt
Felix de Marez Oyens

Bindings under the Hammer
Mirjam Foot

William H. Scheide’s Purchase of a Forged Columbus Letter
Paul Needham

7 · ADVERSARIA

A Medieval Seal Matrix
Nicolas Barker

On Origins, Memories, and Marbles
Amy Linenthal Halliday

Where Did it Come from?
Larry Wallace

Recollections of an Only Child
Justin G. Schiller

A Tokyo Memoir: A First Folio, but No American Football
Toshiyuki Takamiya

Memories of Life at Bernard Quaritch
Celia Cammarota & Dinah Swayne

Noel MS1: The Dring–Linenthal–Noel Staunton Land Deed of 1378
Lynn Ransom with Edward Potten

The Oracle of Hastings Speaks
Michael Zinman

List of Contributors

Indices

• Edited by Edward Potten
• Edited by Satoko Tokunaga