IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169770 accession number: MS 294a DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 May 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, six leaves with closely trimmed margins, framed illuminated area 175 x 125 mm, no text or ruling on reverse. DECORATION: Framed miniatures with borders of strewn flowers or devotional objects on coloured grounds or narrative scenes in landscape settings, once at major text divisions in the original manuscript: MS 294a: Hours of the Cross, Crucifixion with the Virgin, St John, Holy Women, and two thieves, strewn-flower border on bronze ground. title: leaf (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg (1490 – 1545); probably in the Netherlands between 1758 and 1852; in Rome by 1856 when these and many other miniatures, already detached from the manuscript, were purchased by Frederick William Robert Stewart, IV Marquess of Londonderry, KP, PC (1805 –1872), note in his hand and painted medallion recording his ownership on previous mounts; thereafter: Rev. E.S. Dewick (1844 – 1917); purchased from his son by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1918. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169770 PEOPLE ------------------- Dewick, Rev. E.S. Stewart, Frederick William Robert, IV Marquess of Londonderry Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1522 - 1523 creation date earliest: 1522 creation date latest: 1523 culture: 16th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Bening, Simon EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts title: Flemish Art 1300-1700 title: The Splendours of Flanders title: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West title: The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand CITATIONS -------- Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts Flemish Art 1300 - 1700 Die Meister des Breviarium Grimani A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) The Splendours of Flanders The Robert Lehman Collection, Vol. IV: Illuminations Marginalized Jewels: The Depiction of Jewellry in the Borders of Glemish Devotional Manuscripts The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. 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