BIB_ID
127288
Accession number
MA 4332
Display Date
date of forgery unknown.
Description
1 item (1 p.)
Notes
The paper is not watermarked.
This is one of eighteen "mandati camerali," or bank drafts, identified as spurious by John Shearman in his "Raphael in Early Modern Sources" (Yale University Press, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 1525-1526, item F30. The document purports to be an official note authorizing the papal treasurer and banker to issue a monthly payment (for January and Februay 1514) to Raphael for services rendered to the Vatican, and signed by Raphael upon receipt of payment. According to Shearman, the document bears a genuine seal of the Treasurer, cut from another document and pasted on. Shearman discounts the authenticity of the document based on evidence that Raphael was not salaried and did not collect payment monthly.
This is one of eighteen "mandati camerali," or bank drafts, identified as spurious by John Shearman in his "Raphael in Early Modern Sources" (Yale University Press, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 1525-1526, item F30. The document purports to be an official note authorizing the papal treasurer and banker to issue a monthly payment (for January and Februay 1514) to Raphael for services rendered to the Vatican, and signed by Raphael upon receipt of payment. According to Shearman, the document bears a genuine seal of the Treasurer, cut from another document and pasted on. Shearman discounts the authenticity of the document based on evidence that Raphael was not salaried and did not collect payment monthly.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan in 1909 from Valentino Del Signore, Rome; formerly with Alexandre Imbert, Rome.
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