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Miniature from a Gradual
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 207 x 199 mm, two four-line musical staves ruled in red, two lines of fragmentary text ruled in brown ink.
CONTENTS: On reverse, part of the Introit to the Mass for Pentecost Sunday: [Spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarum: et hoc quod continent omnia, scienti]am habet [vocis, all]eluia, all[eluia, alleluia] (Wisdom 1.7; Ps 67.2); the initial S on the recto would have introduced the Introit.
DECORATION: Miniature framed in gold: Pentecost, set within a classical interior.
ORNAMENTATION: Foliate initial [S] on a square ground of solid gold set at the outer edge of the miniature.
History note: Sold by a German bookseller, probably in the nineteenth century (note with lot no. 566 pasted onto old mount; note 566 pencilled twice on reverse)
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century, second quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1530
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 64
Primary reference Number: 178365
Project ID: 1409
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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Accession Number: MS 5-1979
Accession Number: Marlay cutting It. 13.ii
Accession Number: Marlay cutting It. 14
Accession Number: MS McClean 201.9l
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