Title:
Leaf from a Missal
Maker:
; production
Collection:
Charles Brinsley Marlay
Category:
illuminated manuscript
Name(s):
leaf (manuscript); sub-category
missal; type of text
Date:
circa 1450 — circa 1475
Period:
fifteenth century, third quarter
Description:
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 268 x 199 mm, reverse blank
DECORATION: Full-page framed miniature with borders containing floral and ivy-leaf spraywork, gold stars, and a gold cross for kissing: Crucifixion with the Virgin, St John, and two angels gathering Christ’s blood in chalices.
Production
Place:
Germany, Lower Rhine
Production
Place (legacy):
Germany, production, region
Lower Rhine, region
Technique(s):
illumination; whole
penwork
Material(s):
parchment; support
gold
Dimension(s):
height, page, 268
width, page, 199
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1912; Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Associated
Person:
Marlay, Charles Brinsley; previous owner
Exhibition(s):
Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion. 1966 - 1966
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Catalogue number: 79
Documentation:
Wormald, F.. Giles, P.M.. 1982. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection).England: Cambridge University Pressp. 102
Wormald, F.. Giles, P. M.. 1966. Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion.Cambridge (Cambs.):
cat. no. 79
Accession:
Object Number: Marlay cutting G. 4
(Manuscripts and Printed Books)
(record id: 170660; input: 2010-01-27; modified: 2012-08-31)
Permanent
Identifier:
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