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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.
Support: illustrations; Extent: 1 online resource (1 leaf) :
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.
Latin
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.
Latin
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.
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.
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.
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