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Initial from a Choir Book
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 100 x 113 mm, one fragmentary four-line musical stave ruled in red ink and a fragmentary word, [op]probrium, on reverse.
ORNAMENTATION: Initial in orange, grey, pink, blue and green on gold grounds within orange and black ink frames: [V] formed of stylized acanthus terminating in a winged female figure, with infill of geometric silver pattern on orange ground.
History note: No. 132 in a nineteenth-century French sale catalogue, in which the initials are described as sixteenth-century German (catalogue cutting pasted to mount)
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century, Early#
Circa
1500
CE
-
Circa
1510
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting Z. 7c
Primary reference Number: 178557
Project ID: 1223
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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