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Leaf from a Book of Hours
Artist: Chierico. Francesco di Antonio del
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 130 x 90 mm (70 x 47 mm), 13 long lines ruled in ink.
CONTENTS: Beginning of the Short Hours of the Cross, on reverse (original recto) end of a collect, pie creditor reclinatus fuisti cuius animam tue mortis gladius pertransibat…ut benefitio tue mortis de victis et hostibus ab instantibus malis et a morte perpetua liberemur. Qui vivus etc. Amen. V[ersiculum] Benedicamus domino. R[esponsio] Deo gratias.
DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink or blue on gold ground, with acanthus extensions and full floral borders containing putti, birds, vases, gold crosses and scenes: Short Hours of the Cross, [D, 8 ll.] Head of Christ, cross-nimbed and wearing Crown of Thorns, with the Betrayal in a roundel in lower border.
ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initial [V, 2 ll.] with red pen-flourished infill and extension for Psalm 94 (MS 257d verso); red or blue one-line penwork initials.
Method of acquisition: Given (1895) by Thompson, Henry Yates
15th Century, Mid-Late#
Circa
1470
CE
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Circa
1484
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS 257c
Primary reference Number: 176364
Project ID: 2862
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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