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Miniature from the Hours of Albrecht of Brandenburg: Annunciation.
Artist: Bening, Simon
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, six leaves with closely trimmed margins, framed illuminated area 175 x 125 mm, no text or ruling on reverse.
DECORATION: Framed miniature with borders of strewn flowers or devotional objects on coloured grounds or narrative scenes in landscape settings, once at major text divisions in the original manuscript:
MS 294b: Hours of the Virgin, Annunciation, the Virgin travelling with an angel to visit Elizabeth in border.
History note: Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg (1490 – 1545); probably in the Netherlands between 1758 and 1852; in Rome by 1856 when these and many other miniatures, already detached from the manuscript, were purchased by Frederick William Robert Stewart, IV Marquess of Londonderry, KP, PC (1805 –1872), note in his hand and painted medallion recording his ownership on previous mounts; thereafter: Rev. E.S. Dewick (1844 – 1917); purchased from his son by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1918.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1918) by Dewick (son of E. S. Dewick)
16th Century, Early#
Circa
1522
CE
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Circa
1523
CE
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composed of
parchment
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Accession number: MS 294b
Primary reference Number: 169771
Project ID: 104
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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