IDENTIFIERS
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id:	170658
accession number:	Marlay cutting G. 1

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 28 February 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 245 x 213 mm, text on verso 203 x 150 mm, 6 long lines on recto, 2 columns of 25 lines on verso, ruled in faint brown ink.

CONTENTS: Canon of the Mass.

DECORATION: Large framed miniature on gold and diapered ground:
Crucifixion with the Virgin, St Mary Magdalene, St John, the centurion, two angels, and Ecclesia gathering Christ’s blood in a chalice, four corner medallions showing a priest celebrating Mass, the Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket, Ecclesia and Synagoga.

ORNAMENTATION: Green interlaced initial: [T, 6 ll.] with foliate extensions on gold ground; alternate red and blue pen-flourished initials [2 ll.]; alternate one-line red and blue initials.
title:	cutting

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Pierre-Henri Gélis-Didot (1853 – 1902); his sale, Paris, 12 – 13 April 1897, lot 31; Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831 – 1912); his bequest, 1912.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books
collection:	Charles Brinsley Marlay

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/170658

PEOPLE
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Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Gélis-Didot, Pierre-Henri




TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1225 - 1250
creation date earliest:	1225
creation date latest:	1250
culture:	13th Century, second quarter



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion
title:	Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit. Herrschaft und Repräsentation der Welfen 1125-1235
CITATIONS
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Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)
Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit. Herrschaft und Repräsentation der Welfen 1125-1235
A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands
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