Abstract
The scroll opens with undated paintings of orchid, rock and bamboo by Guan Daosheng (1262-1319) and her husband Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), followed by seventeen colophons by eminent men of letters of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A particularly noteworthy point is, that two of the colophon authors wrote in place of each other, in their respective calligraphy styles. The joints of the individual sheets of paper bear the seals of the art collector An Qi (1683 - c. 1745). The handscroll is recorded in two eighteenth-century catalogues. The scroll invites questions as to authorship, different hands, dating, format, collecting, recording, copying, mounting and archiving - all research areas which lie at the heart of the study of manuscripts.
