IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 209503 accession number: Marlay cutting Fr. 15 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 1 November 2016 updated: Wednesday 2 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: One of two historiated initials PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 175 x 170 mm, two four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and three lines of fragmentary text CONTENTS: The initial E would have opened the Introit for the Mass at Epiphany, 'Ecce advenit dominator dominus', on the original verso of the leaf; the fragmentary text on the reverse (the original recto) includes the words 'et matrem', which form part of the Communion ('Tolle puerum et matrem eius') at the end of the Mass for the preceding feast, Christ’s Nativity. DECORATION: Historiated initials in blue, ornamented in white, on gold ground with blue, orange and green scrolling vine motifs in the four corners: E, Adoration of the Magi set in a portico with a receding landscape in the distance title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: commissioned by King Louis XII of France (1498-1515) and his consort, Anne of Brittany (1477-1514); Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912); his bequest, 1912. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Charles Brinsley Marlay creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/209503 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Charles Brinsley TECHNIQUES ---------- illuminated manuscript CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 16th Century DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 175 dimension: Width units: mm value: 170 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts CITATIONS -------- Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France Gilding the Lilly Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada Enluminures, Vélins, Dessins du XIIe au XVIIe siècle/ Illuminations, Gouaches, Drawings from the 12th to the 17th centuries, I Les Enlumiures, Enluminures, Vélins, Dessins du XIIe au XIXe siècle/ Illuminations, Gouaches, Drawings from the 12th to the 19th centuries, III Vie de la reine Anne de Brétagne, femme des rois de France, Charles VIII et Louis XII: Suivie de lettres inédites et de documents originaux A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Jean Pichore: Buchmaler, Graphiker und Verleger in Paris um 1500 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/Marlay_20cutting_20Fr_15_2_201106_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1004 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/mid_Marlay_20cutting_20Fr_15_2_201106_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 510 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/Marlay_20cutting_20Fr_15_2_201106_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1004 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/preview_Marlay_20cutting_20Fr_15_2_201106_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 255 pixels width: 250 pixels