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Leaf from a Breviary or Ordinal
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 500 x 372 mm (366 x 225 mm), 20 lines of text, ruled in pale brown ink.
CONTENTS: On reverse, the last two verses of the hymn Lux ecce surgit aurea for Thursday Lauds and the hymn Tu trinitatis unitas for Friday Matins; on the recto (the leaf’s original verso), the psalm for Friday Matins, Inclina Domine aurem tuam (Ps. 85:1-6), with antiphon Inclina domine.
DECORATION: Historiated initial [I, 6 ll.] in pink and blue on a tessellated ground with painted floral motifs enclosing a crowned youth (David?) in prayer and accompanied by one-sided border formed of gold stave, flowers, foliage, spraywork and gold discs.
ORNAMENTATION: On reverse, red voided initial [T, 4 ll.] with red and blue pen flourishing for the hymn Tu trinitas unitas; alternate red and blue one-line penwork initials set in the margin for each verse; initials within rubrics pen-flourished in brown ink.
History note: Early note 108 in ink in the outer margin on the reverse; later note No. 11 in ink on the current recto; Pierre-Henri Gélis Didot (1853 – 1902); his sale, Paris, 12-13 April 1897, lot 96 (cutting from sale catalogue pasted onto mount); Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831–1912); his bequest, 1912.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Circa 1450 CE - 1475 CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 67
Primary reference Number: 178366
Project ID: 1412
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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