Description
Loose sheet in natural parchment with 2 pages of the facsimile edition of the Book of Chess Games, Dice and Tables of Alfonso X the Wise, whose original manuscript is preserved in the Library of the Royal Monastery of El Escorial. It is not imitation parchment parchment paper, but 100% natural parchment.
Paradigm of the cultural work of Alfonso X, the 150 miniatures of the Book of Chess Games, Dice and Tables, constitute one of the most important testimonies of the monarch’s court painting with which they link, both in their iconographic and stylistic characters. , as with the courtly context and in the hermetic-type culture they reveal.
We have 2 sheets with 2 pages each, the back of the sheet blank, in full color and with gold. Sheet with page 3v, open format 55.5 x 39.5 cm. Sheet with page 64v, open format 55.5 x 40 cm.
Being 100% natural lambskin parchment, its conservation is not the same as paper and its durability is several centuries.
The indicated price is for one sheet, to choose from the only two that we have available and that you can only get right here.
NOTE: To the buyer of this article, if you buy an original copy of the Book of Chess Games, Dice and Tables of Alfonso X the Wise in 100% natural parchment, the amount paid for this article will be discounted.
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