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Spanish Forger illumination LJS 33
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Abstract

Illuminated chess scene painted on a parchment leaf scraped of its original text and musical notation. The illumination was probably painted in France circa 1900; the verso preserves 4 lines of text and musical notation with two small decorated initials from a late 14th or early 15th-century Italian liturgical manuscript. Also on the verso is an inscription in pencil, à Lucien.

Physical Description

Support: ill.; Extent: 1 online resource (1 leaf) :

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on 17 September 2013).

Dimensions of original manuscript: 187 x 134 mm.

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Keywords
14th century
15th century
Spanish
Spain
Illumination
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Language

Latin

Provenance

Purchased by a former owner in Paris in the 1930s or 1940s (Sotheby's).

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 25 June 1985, lot 37, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

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Language

Latin

Provenance

Purchased by a former owner in Paris in the 1930s or 1940s

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 25 June 1985, lot 37, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Illuminated chess scene painted on a parchment leaf scraped of its original text and musical notation. The illumination was probably painted in France circa 1900; the verso preserves 4 lines of text and musical notation with two small decorated initials from a late 14th or early 15th-century Italian liturgical manuscript. Also on the verso is an inscription in pencil, à Lucien.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on 17 September 2013).

Dimensions of original manuscript: 187 x 134 mm.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Keywords
14th century
15th century
Spanish
Spain
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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