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WHAT IS THE RECEPTIOGATE?


ReceptioGate is the name given to a violent and coordinated defamation campaign launched against cultural heritage scholar Prof. Carla Rossi, after she publicly exposed the systematic dismemberment and sale of medieval manuscripts.
The attack was triggered by a discredited former manuscript cataloguer, Peter Kidd — a freelancer with no academic affiliation, whose blog has long served to mislead institutions, distort academic facts, and shield those who profit from biblioclasm. Kidd’s campaign sought to destroy Prof. Rossi’s academic credibility through false accusations, manipulated files, and defamatory narratives, all while protecting the market that thrives on tearing apart cultural heritage. His motives are clear — and so is his complicity. The campaign was silently supported by organisations that tolerate, and in some cases collaborate with, those who provide "expert opinions" on single leaves torn from stolen manuscripts — such as this example:
🔗 https://www.kollerauktionen.ch/fr/132590-0066-1174-MAESTRO-DELLE-EFFIGI-DOMENICAN-1174_70669.html
This site presents fully documented evidence about:

🔍 Want to know more?
📚 Full timeline and legal documents:
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/timeline
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/faq
🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/the-receptiogate-affair-truth-defamation-and-the-struggle-against-manuscript-dismemberment
🔗 https://www.alta-formazione.it/post/receptiogate-spiegato-diffamazione-documenti-accuse-infondate-e-risposta-accademica
🧑‍🎓 Background on the institutions involved:
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/actors-behind-the-defamation
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/actors-behind-the-defamation/peter-kidd-medieval-manuscripts-provenance
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/actors-behind-the-defamation/societ%C3%A0-internazionale-di-storia-della-miniatura
🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/the-responsibility-of-the-società-internazionale-di-storia-della-miniatura-in-the-receptiogate-affai
✉️ Rebuttals, testimonies, and international support:
🔗 https://oprom.substack.com/p/documented-timeline-of-the-defamation
🔗 https://oprom.substack.com/p/facing-disinformation-with-knowledge
🔗 https://oprom.substack.com/p/all-official-sources-on-receptiogate
 
This is not an academic controversy.
This is the exposure of a profitable network that trades in cultural destruction — and silences those who speak up.

BOOKS & ACADEMIC ARTICLES WITH ISBN 

#ReceptioGate : Academic Defamation and the Dismemberment of Manuscripts

Puig Jordi

Éditeur : Bibliothèque de l'OProM

130 pages ; relié

ISBN 978-2-488512-00-8

EAN 9782488512008

2025

Receptiogate. Diffamazione accademica e smembramento di manoscritti

Jordi Puig

Publisher : Alta Formazione Editrice

ISBN 978-2-488512-02-2

2025

The Madruzzo Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript Illuminated by Marie Vrelant

Chapter Title : From Devotion to Deception? The ReceptioGate Affair and the Ethics of Manuscript Heritage

Jordi Puig

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN: 1-0364-4799-5

ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4799-1

Release Date: 9th June 2025

Jordi Puig

2025

Beyond the Margins

Female Illuminators in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Chapter Title : Biblioclasm and Broken Histories

Carla Rossi · 2024

Publisher : Ethics International Press

ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-965-6
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-966-3
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80441-967-0

FURTHER ACADEMIC PEER-REVIEWD BOOKS

2024

ARTICLES

Biblioclasm for Profit: The Legal Implications of Dismembering Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

Carla Rossi

Harvard Art Law Review, 1, 1, 2025, pp. 97-163

2025

Institutional Complicity in the So‑Called ReceptioGate Affair. The Role of the Società Internazionale di Storia della Miniatura - Napoli 

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15371633

Jordi Puig

2025

Biblioclastia a scopo di lucro: le implicazioni legali dello smembramento dei manoscritti miniati medievali occidentali (Prima Parte)

Carla Rossi

Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts, Vol. 9, Nr. 2, pp. 94-101

https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15591516

2025

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