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:
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The role of Peter Kidd in promoting the dismemberment of the De Roucy Hours
🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/how-peter-kidd-promoted-the-destruction-of-the-de-roucy-hours-his-collaboration-with-manuscript-dis -
The fabrication of false accusations and manipulated files
🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/peter-kidd-excised-leaves-and-the-illusion-of-provenance-research-2025-commentary -
The use of Kidd’s blog to slander Prof. Rossi and others
🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/peter-kidd-a-documented-case-of-defamation-and-concealment-from-giovanni-mazzarelli-to-receptiog
🔗 https://www.isfida.eu/post/peter-kidd-a-documented-case-of-defamation-and-concealment-from-giovanni-mazzarelli-to-receptiog -
The academic and legal response
🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/the-receptiogate-affair-official-documents-academic-response-and-timeline-of-events
🔗 https://www.isfida.eu/post/receptiogate-official-documents-publications-and-institutional-response
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/press-statements
🔍 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
Éditeur : Bibliothèque de l'OProM
130 pages ; relié
ISBN 978-2-488512-00-8
EAN 9782488512008
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
2025
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