by eleanorh | Jul 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
On what would have been Sir Thomas Phillipps’ 229th birthday, Dr Federico Botana examines Italian manuscripts from the Phillipps library that were acquired by Italian collections in the twentieth century. Since the early 1900s, Italian librarians, curators and...
by eleanorh | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
As part of our exploration of the manuscripts owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Dr Angéline Rais examines the fate of the Swiss manuscripts owned by Phillipps. Although Sir Thomas Phillipps spent a year in Switzerland in 1822–23 and purchased there more than 250...