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Historiated initial from an Antiphoner
Artist: Master of the Yellow Backgrounds
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 193 x 220 mm, three four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and three lines of fragmentary text ruled in brown ink.
CONTENTS: On reverse, part of an antiphon at Matins for Easter Sunday, followed by Ps. 3:1, [Ego dormiui et somnum cepi et exur]rexi quoniam do[minus suscep]it me alleluia alle[luia. Ps. Domin]e quid mul[tiplicati sunt].V.; the initial, which would have been on the verso of the original leaf, introduced the responsory to the first lesson of Matins on Easter Sunday, Angelus descendit de caelo et accedens revolvit lapidem, et super eum sedit, et dixit mulieribus (Mark 16:1-7).
DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded pink with acanthus and fruit extensions on gold ground: [A] The Three Marys being shown Christ’s empty tomb by an angel bearing a scroll with the legend SURREXIT. [NON] EST HIC. ALLELUIA.
History note: Pencil note ‘From the Cathedral of Como’ on the verso of the original mount, possibly in the hand of William Young Ottley; his sale, Sotheby’s, 12 May 1838, lot 162
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century, Mid-Late#
Production date:
circa
AD 1450
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 68
Primary reference Number: 176554
Project ID: 1413
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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