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1. Modern illumination
- Published / Created:
- [between 1900 and 2000 (?)]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 475
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a portion of a single leaf intended to represent a fragment of a large noted service book. On the recto, historiated initial and beginning of a hymn. Verso blank. The fragment is an imitation of a 15th-century antiphonal (?): each word is a unit, not stretched to fit the rhythm of the chant; the colors are inaccurate and unmodulated; the gold is applied in too high relief; the insect in the margin is an anachronistic insertion; there is no text on the verso; and the parchment has been varnished
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in round liturgical gothic., and Both the letters and the notes (square, on 4-line red staves) appear to have been written first in pale black ink or lead, then traced in opaque black ink. One initial, a poor imitation of the type found in Tuscan antiphonals of the early fifteenth century; Pentecost, with orange, blue, green and pink acanthus against gold, thickly edged in black, hair-spray, gold dots and one insect in margin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arts, Forgeries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Modern illumination
2. [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].
- Published / Created:
- [early 20th century]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1486 (Oversize)
- Container / Volume:
- Box (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507). and Evidence of the forgery includes the superimposition of the gores over glue already on the paper surface, which suggests use of a sheet removed from a period volume, as well as details that replicate gores from an authentic woodcut print formerly owned by Austrian cartographer Franz Hauslab and acquired by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota in 1954
- Description:
- A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with little distortion., Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1519) was a German cartographer. His wall map Universalis Cosmographia (1507) and printed globes contemporarily derived from it were the first published globular maps of the Western Hemisphere and the first maps on which the name America appears in honor of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., and Publication place and date of creation supplied by the cataloger.
- Subject (Geographic):
- America
- Subject (Name):
- Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
- Subject (Topic):
- Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].