Minnesota - 13871. Manuel of Byzantine painting. Said by Phillips to be a copy made by Simonides and treated to look old.

Steven Avery

Steven Avery

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How was it treated?

Can it be tested? - write MN and Yale and UK?
Let's collate material about Simonides aging manuscripts.
 
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Steven Avery

Steven Avery

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From the last post, now cleaned up:

The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts (2023)
Christopher de Hamel
https://books.google.com/books?id=5n5dEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT486

The various different forgeries (and probable forgeries) bought from Simonides by Phillipps at different times are listed in his catalogue under the following titles, (1) “Panselinos tωn Zωgraphωn, or Manual of Painters” (MS 13871; Sotheby’s, 4 July 1972, lot 1730; now St John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, Kacmarcik MS 21, Area Artium Collection) ...
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The ω is the long O omega == Ω.
 
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