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Leaf from a Gradual: Marlay cutting Fl. 3

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Leaf from a Gradual

Maker(s)

Scribe: Weert, Francis
Artists: Associates of the Master of Cardinal Wolsey

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Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, leaf from a gradual with heavily trimmed margins: text block 305 x 215 mm, 9 lines of text ruled in faint brown ink and 9 four-line music staves ruled in red, 412 x 255 mm

CONTENTS: recto – verso: Introit for the feast of the Ascension, Viri Galilei.

DECORATION: Small framed miniature [3 ll.] with three-sided strewn-flower borders: Ascension, parody of jousting in border.

ORNAMENTATION: One-line initials formed of acanthus and branches against coloured and framed backgrounds introducing texts marked by the miniatures; alternate red and blue one-line initials with voided ornament; black ink one-line calligraphic capitals highlighted in red and incorporating grotesque profiles; capitals highlighted in red.

Notes

History note: Marcus Cruyt, Abbot of St Bernard’s at Hemiskem near Antwerp (1518 – 1536); Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831 – 1912); his bequest, 1912.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

16th Century
Production date: circa AD 1524

People, subjects and objects depicted

Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Gold

Components of the work

Support composed of parchment
Text Height 305 mm Width 215 mm
Page Height 412 mm Width 255 mm

Techniques used in production

Penwork
Illumination

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Identification numbers

Accession number: Marlay cutting Fl. 3
Primary reference Number: 170655
Project ID: 128

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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