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Leaf from a Gradual
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 483 x 380 mm (432 x 285 mm), seven musical staves ruled in red ink, seven lines of text ruled in pale brown ink, contemporary folio number vi in red in outer margin of recto.
CONTENTS: Opening of the Introit of the Mass for the Feast of the Purification (2 February), Suscepimus deus misericordiam tuam (Ps 47: 10) … Ps. Magnus dominus et laudabilis ... (verso) Gloria. Gr. Suscepimus deus … V. Sicut audiuimus ita et uidimus; the initial introduced the Introit Suscepimus.
DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded pink on a square ground of solid gold with painted foliage and spraywork extensions forming a partial border: [S] Presentation at the Temple.
ORNAMENTATION: Alternate red and blue initials [height of the width between staves] with foliate pen flourishing in purple or red, for verses; text immediately following the historiated initials and the verse initials is written in display script, flourished in black filled with yellow wash.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1450
CE
-
Circa
1475
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 70
Primary reference Number: 181266
Project ID: 1415
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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