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Leaf from a Gradual
Scribe:
Weert, Francis
Artists:
Associates of the Master of Cardinal Wolsey
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, leaf from a gradual with heavily trimmed margins: text block 305 x 215 mm, 9 lines of text ruled in faint brown ink and 9 four-line music staves ruled in red, 416 x 255 mm
CONTENTS: recto - verso: Introit for the feast of the Visitation, Gaudeamus omnes in domino.
DECORATION: Small framed miniature [3 ll.] with three-sided strewn-flower border: Visitation.
ORNAMENTATION: One-line initials formed of acanthus and branches against coloured and framed backgrounds introducing texts marked by the miniatures; alternate red and blue one-line initials with voided ornament; black ink one-line calligraphic capitals highlighted in red and incorporating grotesque profiles; capitals highlighted in red.
History note: Marcus Cruyt, Abbot of St Bernard’s at Hemiskem near Antwerp (1518 – 1536); Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831 – 1912); his bequest, 1912.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1524
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Page
Accession number: Marlay cutting Fl. 2
Primary reference Number: 170654
Project ID: 128
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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