Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Spanish Forger

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959836903503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5983690

Publisher

Language

Summary

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.
   

Extent

Support

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Art--Forgeries
• Chess in art

Genres

• Facsimiles
• Fragments
• Illuminations (visual works)
• Palimpsests
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• Spanish
• Spain
• Illumination

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