BIB_ID
192829
Accession number
MA 4432
Display Date
[ca. 1698].
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1986.
Description
1 item 32.8 x 40.1 cm
Notes
Title from first line of text; date from annotation on the manuscript.
With text and illustrations on a folded sheet in four sections, each with two flaps to alter the illustration and continue the verses; with revisions to the verses; manuscript 32.8 x 40.1 cm unfolded; 10.7 x 16.5 folded.
With text and illustrations on a folded sheet in four sections, each with two flaps to alter the illustration and continue the verses; with revisions to the verses; manuscript 32.8 x 40.1 cm unfolded; 10.7 x 16.5 folded.
Provenance
Purchased from Sotheby's London, December 1986, lot. 395.
Summary
Being a manuscript harlequinade in which Adam becomes Eve who becomes a mermaid; a lion becomes a winged monster who becomes an eagle and carries off a child; a man who escapes the eagle becomes a heart which then turns into a purse of gold and silver; the miser grows ill and turns into a skeleton.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (23.2 cm)
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