IDENTIFIERS
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id:	169750
accession number:	MS 205

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 3 September 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 450 x 310 (345 x 209) mm, 10 lines of text ruled in faint brown ink and 10 four-line musical staves ruled in red ink.

CONTENTS: Antiphon for the Nativity of the Virgin, Hec est regina virginum.

DECORATION: Historiated initial [H, 2 ll.] formed of gold acanthus on blue ground, Virgin and Child in enclosed garden venerated by two brothers of the Order of the Holy Cross, bar-border with foliage and acanthus extensions, a putto, tournament scene, and bird with scroll inscribed ‘gelr hogen moit’.

ORNAMENTATION: Alternate red and blue one-line penwork initials.
title:	leaf (manuscript)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: made for a house of the Order of the Holy Cross, probably St Cornelius at Roermond, Limburg; MS 205 in the Museum by 1895; MS 275 purchased from Bernard Quaritch by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1911.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169750

PEOPLE
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Quaritch, Bernard
Order of the Holy Cross




TECHNIQUES
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penwork
TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1510 - 1520
creation date earliest:	1510
creation date latest:	1520
culture:	16th Century, Early#



CITATIONS
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the North West
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)
Monastische Buchkunst zwischen Mittelalter und Renaissance: Illuminierte Handschriften der Zisterzienserabtei Altenberg und die Kölner Buchmalerei 1470-1550
Leaves of Gold : Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections
A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands
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