Vassar College, Leaf 42

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30338

Shelfmark:

Leaf 42

Title:

Miniature by the Spanish Forger, on a cutting from an antiphonary

Miniature

Artist:

Spanish Forger

Spanish Forger WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

13--

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustration, music

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, illustration, music ; 210 x 152 mm

Note:

Ms. cutting.
Title from Kidd.
Script: Written in gothic script.
Decoration: Miniature depicting army, led by elaborately dressed soldier, met by women music-makers, perhaps based on 1 Samuel 18:6; reverse with one large initial in blue with red pen flourishing and part of another in red with blue flourishing.
Music: Contains staff notation (4 line)
Origin: Text and music written in Italy during the 14th century.
Miniature probably made in Paris during the late 19th or early 20th century, using parchment from 14th-century Italian manuscript; traces of red velvet suggesting miniature was framed against such a background; acquired by Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar College 1915-1946; Vassar College: accompanying notes read, "Given in honor of Professor [Lucy Maynard] Salmon to the History...

Keyword:

forgeries (derivative objects)

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Forgery

Specimens

Music--Manuscripts

Italy

Fourteenth century

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/al3g85/alma991019364055507396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College