St Matthew standing, holding a book, leaf from a Missal

An image of Illuminated Manuscript. Leaf from a Missal. Master of the Hindman leaves. Parchment, approx. 367 x 247 mm (230 x 165 mm), two columns, 26 lines, ruled in plummet. Circa 1300. Production Place: Italy, Perugia.
CONTENTS: Gospel reading of the Passion from Matthew 26:2 for Palm Sunday. DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded pink and gold on blue and gold grounds, with acanthus extensions with gold leaves and balls: Passion according to St Matthew, [I, 8 ll.] St Matthew standing, holding a book, and pointing towards text. ORNAMENTATION: alternate red and blue penwork initials [2 ll.] with purple or red pen-flourished infill and extensions’ alternate red and blue one-line penwork initials; capitals highlighted in yellow.

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Illuminated Manuscript. Leaf from a Missal. Master of the Hindman leaves. Parchment, approx. 367 x 247 mm (230 x 165 mm), two columns, 26 lines, ruled in plummet. Circa 1300. Production Place: Italy, Perugia. CONTENTS: Gospel reading of the Passion from Matthew 26:2 for Palm Sunday. DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded pink and gold on blue and gold grounds, with acanthus extensions with gold leaves and balls: Passion according to St Matthew, [I, 8 ll.] St Matthew standing, holding a book, and pointing towards text. ORNAMENTATION: alternate red and blue penwork initials [2 ll.] with purple or red pen-flourished infill and extensions’ alternate red and blue one-line penwork initials; capitals highlighted in yellow.

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Accession Number: MS McClean 201.11d
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Andrew Morris
Image height: 1473 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
Filesize: 295.21kB

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