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Historiated initial from an Antiphoner
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 117 x 129 mm, two four-line musical staves ruled in red ink, two lines of fragmentary text.
CONTENT: On reverse, part of an antiphon for the third psalm at Lauds for the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin (August 15), In odorem un[guentorum tuorum cu]rrimus adolescent[ulae dilexerunt te nimis]; the initial probably introduced the antiphon for the first psalm of Lauds for the Assumption, Assumpta est Maria.
DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of architectural motifs on a gold ground: [A], Assumption of the Virgin, with the Virgin borne up to Heaven by four angels.
ORNAMENTATION: verso: One ornamental initial [I] in red, height of the gap between musical staves, with voided foliate decoration in purple and yellow; the following letter [N], a display capital in brown with pen-flourishing in the same colour, filled with yellow.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1450
CE
-
Circa
1460
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 77c
Primary reference Number: 181231
Project ID: 1417
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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