Collage with Crucifixion miniature

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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Collage with Crucifixion miniature. Production: Italy, probably Florence. Parchment, gold, collage 350 x 255 mm, miniature 235 x 150 mm, border surrounding miniature 350 x 235 mm, strip added to even out left border 350 x 20 mm, pasted on wood, circa 1450 to circa 1475. DECORATION: Full-page miniature of the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John within a frame containing bust of prophet with open book (top), bust of David with scroll inscribed DIMITERON OPE (right), bust of prophet with scroll inscribed SALANAS PROFETA EST (bottom), and bust of Daniel with scroll inscribed DANIEL (left), the whole pasted onto a leaf with a full foliate border containing medallions with putti, birds, angels, female busts, prophets (including Isaiah and Jeremiah), Annunciation motifs (busts of Archangel blessing, God the Father and the Virgin in upper border), and an erased shield of arms surrounded by cherubim in lower border.

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Accession Number: MS 381
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Andrew Morris
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