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Title:
Historiated initial from a Choir Book
Maker:
; production
Collection:
Charles Brinsley Marlay
Category:
illuminated manuscript
Name(s):
cutting (manuscript); sub-category
other; type of text
Date:
circa 1350 — circa 1360
Period:
fourteenth century, third quarter
Description:
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 130 x 130 mm, one fragmentary four-line musical stave ruled in red ink and fragmentary words, […]petus le[…], on reverse.
DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink with acanthus extensions on blue grounds with delicate, white scroll motifs, inner red grounds with gold scroll motifs: [O] Saintly bishop kneeling in prayer as an angel flies down to him.
Production
Place:
Italy, Milan, probably Milan
Production
Place (legacy):
Italy, production, region
Milan, place
Technique:
illumination; whole
Material(s):
parchment; support
gold; medium
Dimension(s):
height
width
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1912; Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Associated
Person:
Marlay, Charles Brinsley; previous owner
Notes:
Marlay cuttings Z.8a and Z.8b: Historiated initials from a Choir Book
Exhibition(s):
Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance. 1989 - 1990
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Notes: Unpublished handlist of an exhibition held in the Adeane gallery, October 1989 - February 1990.
Catalogue number: 29
Documentation:
Wormald & Giles. 1982. A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum.Cambridge (Cambs.): p. 150
Accession:
Object Number: Marlay cutting Z. 8a
(Manuscripts and Printed Books)
(record id: 178549; input: 2010-11-11; modified: 2012-08-20)
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