Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Nachman, Martin, former owner
• Nachman, Marian, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977565947403681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112082894
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p36q1t317

Publisher

Origin

Date

late 1800s or early 1900s

Summary

Parchment leaf with two hand-painted illuminated vignettes from the late 19th or early 20th century, possibly by the Italian copyist Ernesto Sprega (1829-1911). The vignette on the recto, in landscape format, shows the prophet Isaiah preaching, and is copied from an illumination near the beginning of the second volume of the Bible of Borso d'Este (Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Ms. lat. 423, fol. 3v). The vignette on the verso, in portrait format, is a floral design based on the illuminated margins of the same leaf of the Bible of Borso d'Este.

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Purchased by Martin Nachman, possibly from Eugene Thaw, probably in the early 1950s; bequeathed to his daughter-in-law Marian Nachman.
   
• Gift of an anonymous donor, 2019.
   

Subjects topical

• Isaiah--(Biblical prophet)--Art
• Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

• illuminations (paintings)
• reproductions (derivative objects)
• Manuscripts, Italian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--20th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 24 Folder 12 Box 24 Folder 12: Modern illuminated vignettes are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Large miniature, Prophet Isaiah preaching
• fol. 1v — Large miniature, Floral vignette