IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 178875 accession number: MS 305 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 8 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 21 fols., 235 x 165 mm (158 x 118 mm), two columns, 29 lines, ruled in brown ink BINDING: fifteenth century, red leather over wooden boards, sewn on three supports, two leather straps with metal clasps on upper cover, two pins on lower cover, rust stains of other metal furniture on pastedowns and leaves at both ends DECORATION: Full-page miniature with full floral border framed between gold bars: St Clare standing within a rocky landscape, holding a cross and a book, and sheltering members of order under her cloak (fol. 2r). ORNAMENTATION: Blue initial [E, 3 ll.] on red ground with white foliate ornament and gold initial [I, 3 ll.] on diapered blue and red ground, both accompanied by spraywork extensions with foliage, flowers and gold balls (fol. 1v); alternate blue and red initial [2-5 ll.], and one gold initial [T, 3 ll., fol. 4r] with elaborate red or blue, and occasionally green, pen-flourished infill and extensions; text on fol. 1v written in gold and blue, with capitals in alternative colour; red and blue pen-flourished bars separating the letters of the last word, Amen (fol. 18v); capitals highlighted in yellow throughout. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased at Sotheby’s, London, 27 July 1920, lot 456 and presented by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/178875 TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1460 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1460 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20305_20_281v_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 528 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/mid_MS_20305_20_281v_29.jpg height: 720 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20305_20_281v_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 528 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/preview_MS_20305_20_281v_29.jpg height: 360 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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