#ReceptioGate. The ReceptioGate Affair 2026: New Evidence on Peter Kidd, the Sotheby's Sale of Stolen Leaves from Turin MS E.V.5, and the Defamation Campaign that FollowedFor more than four years, the public narrative surrounding ReceptioGate focused on allegations of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and academic misconduct. Journalists, bloggers, and institutions repeated accusations directed against Professor Carla Rossi and the research centre RECEPTIO. Yet remarkably little attention was paid to the subject of Rossi's research itself: the dismantling of medieval manuscripts and the circulation of stolen manuscript leaves on the international antiquarian market. Drawing upon judicial decisions, archival records, auction catalogues, institutional documents, correspondence, and previously unpublished evidence, Jordi Puig reconstructs the chronology of one of the most controversial academic affairs of recent years. At the centre of the investigation stand two manuscripts: the Book of Hours of Louis de Roucy, digitally reconstructed after centuries of dispersal, and Turin MS E.V.5, a manuscript preserved in the Biblioteca Universitaria di Torino from which three illuminated folios were removed and later sold on the international market. Both appeared in the same Sotheby's sale in London on 7 July 2015, and both would later become linked to the events that shaped ReceptioGate. The book examines manuscript |
