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Cutting from the Missals of Pope Clement VII: Marlay cutting It. 35

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Titles

Cutting from the Missals of Pope Clement VII

Maker(s)

Artist: Giallo, Jacopo del

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Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, traces of earlier paper mounts on verso, central miniature 203 x 143 mm, single piece forming left, upper and lower borders 314 x 200 mm, right border 325 x 60 mm

DECORATION: Miniature of the Vision of Pope Leo the Great set within gold proscenium arch (later addition) and surrounded by an inhabited border with gold ornament on blue, red and green ground and oval medallions with portraits of a sibyl at each corner, the arms of Clement VII in the lower border, and his devices: the crystal sphere and burning tree in the left border, the motto SEMPER with diamond ring and feathers in the upper border, and the motto SUAVE with the yoke in the right-hand border.

Notes

History note: Pope Clement VII (r. 1523-1534); Abate Luigi Celotti (c.1768-c.1846); his sale, Christie’s, London, 26 May 1825, lot 63 (Marlay cutting It. 35) and part of lot 74 (Marlay cuttings It. 33 and It. 34); Thomas Miller Whitehead

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

16th Century, first half
Circa 1523 - Circa 1534

People, subjects and objects depicted

Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Gold

Components of the work

Support composed of parchment

Techniques used in production

Illumination

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Identification numbers

Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 35
Primary reference Number: 176580
Project ID: 1381

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 11 April 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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