Explore the reconstruction of an early 14th-century Bolognese illuminated Antiphonal by Nerio. Dispersed leaves in major collections reveal a rare glimpse into medieval manuscript artistry—and the visual, stylistic, and iconographic links that connect them.

This post explores a remarkable illuminated leaf of Jacob’s Dream from a 15th-century Swabian Missal and the rediscovery of its sister leaves now in Cambridge, Tokyo, and Philadelphia. Through heraldic clues and auction records, we begin to reconstruct a once-complete manuscript linked to the von Magenbuch family and the artistic legacy of late medieval Augsburg.