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Miniature from a Book of Hours
Artist: Poyer, Jean
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment: 46 x 88 mm, pasted on cardboard
SCRIPT: Gothic bookhand (textualis)
CONTENTS:
The second verse of Matins for the Hours of the Holy Spirit, Deus in adiutorium meum intende, can be discerned in the upper register of the image despite having been overpainted.
DECORATION:
Bas-de-page framed miniature showing the Virgin and seven apostles kneeling at the base of a hill, presumably witnessing Christ’s Ascension which was probably the subject of the main image above.
History note: Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912); his bequest, 1912.
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century#
1490
CE
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1500
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Parchment
Height 46 mm
Width 88 mm
Accession number: Marlay cutting Z. 10a
Primary reference Number: 209501
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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