Spanish Forger illumination

Name:

Spanish Forger

Date:

1900

Description:

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.

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.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs33.html

Subject:

Art -- Forgeries; Chess in art

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

facsimiles; fragments (object portions); illuminations (visual works); palimpsests; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 leaf) : illustrations

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on 17 September 2013).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 187 x 134 mm.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, LJS 33

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)