IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166628 accession number: Marlay cutting It. 13A DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 5 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, initial aprox. 300 x 270 mm, mounted on cardboard. CONTENTS: The initial S, pasted on cardboard, would have opened the Introit to the Mass for the Purification of the Virgin (2 February), Suscepimus, Deus, misericordiam in medio templi tui. DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded blue, orange, pale yellow and liquid gold with acanthus extensions on a ground of gold leaf: [S] Presentation in the Temple with Simeon and Anna holding the infant Christ on the right, Mary and Joseph on the left, and a mitred priest behind holding the knife for Christ’s circumcision. title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: The initial belonged to a choir book made for the Camaldolese Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence: Corale 2 (Gradual), fol. 42; excised during the Napoleonic campaigns, 1797-1809; thereafter: possibly the property of William Young Ottley (1771-1836) (Freuler 1997, 353); Francis Douce (1757-1834), a note attached to the back of the mount, attributing the illumination to Don Silvestro, is believed to be in his hand; Sir Samuel Meyrick (1783-1848); acquired before 1886 by 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166628 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Charles Brinsley Meyrick, Sir Samuel Douce, Francis Ottley, William Young Camaldolese Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1370 - 1375 creation date earliest: 1370 creation date latest: 1375 culture: 14th Century, second half CREATORS -------- maker: Gherarducci, Don Silvestro dei maker: Canzoni, Maestro delle maker: Rosselli, Niccolo maker: Francesco di Ser Cenni, Cenni di EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Catalogue of a Series of Illuminations from Manuscripts principally of the Italian and French Schools title: Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480 title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance title: Early Italian Paintings from the Museum's Collection, including drawings and illuminated manuscripts title: Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450 title: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West CITATIONS -------- The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West Pittura Fiorentine alla Vigilia dei Rinascimento Catalogue of a Series of Illuminations from Mss. Principally of the Italian and French Schools Tendencies of the Gothic in Florence: Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450 The Iconography of the Immaculate Conception in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance I corali di S. Maria degli Angeli ora nella Biblioteca Laurenziana e le miniature da essi asportate Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art, 1300-1480 A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. 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