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Leaf from a Gradual
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 490 x 385 mm (437 x 285 mm), seven musical staves ruled in red ink, seven lines of text ruled in pale brown ink, contemporary folio number xxii in red in outer margin of recto.
CONTENTS: Opening of the Introit of the Mass for the Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June), De uentre matris mee (Is 49: 1-2) … Ps. (verso) Bonum est confiteri domino …Gloria. Gr. Priusquam te formarem … V. Misit dominus manum suam et tetegit os.; the initial introduced the Introit De uentre.
DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink and blue on a square ground of solid gold with foliate extensions forming a partial border: [D] St John the Baptist.
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. 71
Primary reference Number: 181273
Project ID: 1415
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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