IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 180470 accession number: MS 197 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 24 February 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 578 x 400 mm (398 x 228 mm), 29 long lines, ruled in ink and accommodating two lines of text and two four-line musical staves ruled in red ink on each side of the leaf CONTENTS: On reverse (original recto): Antiphon for the psalm Salvum me fac of the first nocturn of Matins for Septuagesima Sunday, [Tu Domine servabis nos et cus]todies nos, followed by Ps[almus] Salvum me fac d[eus]. V[ersiculus] Memor fui nocte nominis tui d[omine]. R[esponsorium] Et custodivi legem tuam; the miniature and initial, which would have been on the original verso, introduced the responsory for the first lesson of Matins for Septuagesima Sunday, In principio fecit Deus celum et ter[ram] (Gen I:1) DECORATION: Large framed miniature of the Creation of heaven and earth, accompanied by a graded blue initial [I, 17 ll.] on burnished gold ground, with acanthus leaves extending into a full border containing birds, vases, gold balls and putti supporting a wreath medallion with the (overpainted) arms of the Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. ORNAMENTATION: Alternate blue and red penwork initials [2-4 ll.] with reserved ornament. title: leaf (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the Choir books of the Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena made during the rectorship of Niccolò Ricoveri (1456-1476/1477); probably belonged to William Young Ottley (1771-1836), as suggested by François Avril (in Avignon 1983, 351), but it has not been possible to identify them among the lots in his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 11-12 May 1838; purchased for the Museum in 1891. 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/180470 PEOPLE ------------------- Ottley, William Young Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1460 - 1477 creation date earliest: 1460 creation date latest: 1477 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Pietro, Sano di maker: Rossini, Pellegrino di Mariano EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480 title: Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420 - 1500 title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance title: Early Italian Paintings from the Museum's Collection, including drawings and illuminated manuscripts CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum 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: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480 Lo Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena: vicenda di una commitenza artistica Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420 - 1500 The Bernard H. 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