Perhaps conservators at the Getty Museum can recommond suitable
appraisers.   Call them at (310) 459-7611.  If Amy Noel, registrar, is
still there call her, her extension is 7086.  Perhaps the Registrars'
Committee can also help you with that, if you check with them.  Sounds
like they went on-line recently.  Contact Janice Klein, RC-AAM Chair at
<[log in to unmask]>  She's on this list too, so perhaps you'll hear
from her.

Good luck!

Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
Yorba Linda, CA  92886
(714) 993-5075; fax (714) 528-0544; e-mail:  [log in to unmask]

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:47:53 -0700 Sue Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>Dear List:
>
>Recently, our museum was offered the following piece:
>
>20"X16" framed illuminated MSS, glazed front & back, revealing two
>sheets of  words & music from a Gregorian Chant on vellum.  It appears
>to be from The Gloria of the Mass.  According to a chart of notations
>found in a reference manual, the musical notes seem to date to 15th or
>16th century.  It looks very like a page from the Salisbury Missal,
>Paris, 1555 owned by the Met.
>
>A letter from a previous owner states that it was purchased in Paris
>in 1939 when France was on the verge of war & to raise funds, sold
>centuries old MSS from the archives of the Paris Museum.
>
>We do not have an expert in this discipline & wonder if anyone knows
>of  a source (preferably in the Western U.S.) who can evaluate and/or
>appraise such a work.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Sue Thompson
>Sr. Registrar
>Museum of Art
>Brigham Young University
>