IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176619 accession number: Marlay cutting It. 65 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 2 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 200 x 211 mm , reverse side obscured by paper mounts, traces of musical staves ruled in red ink and fragmentary text with ruling in brown ink on recto. CONTENTS: The initial probably introduced the text Viri Galilei, quid admiramini aspicientes in caelum? (Acts 1: 11), either the introit for the Feast of the Ascension, or the first antiphon at Lauds for the same feast. DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of complex foliate motifs with masks on a ground of solid gold: [V] Ascension. title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly from the collection of Pierre-Henri Gélis-Didot (1853-1902); not yet identified in the multi-part lots in his sale, Paris 12-13 April 1897 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Charles Brinsley Marlay STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176619 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Charles Brinsley Didot, Pierre-Henri Gélis TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1490 - 1490 creation date earliest: 1490 creation date latest: 1490 culture: 15th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Libri, Girolamo dai EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Miniatura Veronese del Rinascimento title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance title: Early Italian Paintings from the Museum's Collection including Drawings and Illuminated Manuscripts CITATIONS -------- Die italienischen Miniaturen des 13.-16. Jahrhunderts Miniatura Veronese del Rinascimento A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/660/179/large_Marlay_cutting_It__65_mas.jpg height: 840 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/660/179/mid_Marlay_cutting_It__65_mas.jpg height: 410 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/660/179/Marlay_cutting_It__65_mas.jpg height: 4008 pixels width: 4886 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/660/179/preview_Marlay_cutting_It__65_mas.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/635/large_Marlay_cutting_It__65_dc1.jpg height: 995 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/635/mid_Marlay_cutting_It__65_dc1.jpg height: 486 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/635/Marlay_cutting_It__65_dc1.jpg height: 3400 pixels width: 3500 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/635/preview_Marlay_cutting_It__65_dc1.jpg height: 243 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/635/Marlay_cutting_It__65_dc1.ptif height: 3400 pixels width: 3500 pixels