Historiated initial from a Choir Book

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Image data

Illuminated Manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from a Choir Book. Production Place: Italy, Cremona. Parchment, gold, 70 x 80 mm, fragmentary four-line musical stave ruled in red ink and fragmentary words on reverse. Circa 1480 to circa 1490. DECORATION: Historiated initial in dark pink with white abstract ornament and acanthus extensions on gold ground: [S] Two half-length figures of saints, one bearded and holding a book and palm branch, the other youthful and holding a book and a lily-spray.
Copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1007 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Filesize: 143.85kB

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            ""
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-1249245282 Accessed: 2024-04-26 11:41:07

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-1249245282
            |title=
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-26 11:41:07|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-1249245282

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/660/264/large_Marlay_cutting_Z__4b_mas.jpg"
        alt="Historiated initial from a Choir Book"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info"></figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>