Csornay Boldizsár - Dobos Zsuzsa - Varga Ágota - Zakariás János szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 100. (Budapest, 2004)

URBACH, ZSUZSA: Ein flämischer ikonographischer Bildtypus im italienischen Quattrocento. Bemerkungen zur Studie von Éva Eszláry

35. A sheet of the model-book prior to the restoration. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts sheets are without foliation or pagination. This model-book was donated in 1918 by a Budapest collector, Gyula Bischitz, to the Museum of Fine Arts; its previous provenance is unknown.

4 At the time, the nine parchment sheets folded in half and another blank parchment sheet stitched into the centre formed a small booklet. Presumably, before the model-book was received into the collection, it had become damp, its pages undulated, the parchment sheets began to become mildewed, a large part of the surface was ravaged by mould, and finally the whole booklet-like structure came undone (fig. 35). The keepers of the collection, in order to preserve the parchment sheets, separated them and stored them in a well-ventilated portfolio, in such a way that the sheets did not touch one another. In spite of its poor condition, some of the leaves of the model-book were exhibited and reproduced, several times over.

5 Since the order of the sheets within the booklet did not feature in the description of the model-book noted on its catalogue card, the sheets could freely get mixed up. In the study of Loránd Zentai published in 1973, while the 4 On Gyula Rischizt, see A. Géber, "Magyar műgyűjtők (Hungarian Collectors)," ed. M. Tóth, typescript, Library of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1970, 78-79. "In 1918, a model-book containing animal motifs of a mid-fifteenth-century North-Italian master was donated [...] to the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts." (Ibid., 79.) 5 Zentai, op. cit. (n. 3), 25, n. 1.