Spanish Forger illumination.
- Format/Description:
- Book
1 online resource (1 leaf) : illustrations
polychrome - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35s74Digital facsimile for download (OPenn)
https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs33.html - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Art -- Forgeries.
Chess in art. - Form/Genre:
- facsimiles.
fragments (object portions)
illuminations (visual works)
palimpsests.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance. - Language:
- Latin.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file - 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.
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2013. Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection. - Local notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Penn 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. - Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 145 (LJS 33).
- Publications about:
- Grollemond, Larisa and Bryan Keene, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages (Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 2022), p. 90, fig. 103.
- Cited as:
- LJS 33
- Contributor:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page