IDENTIFIERS
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id:	176366
accession number:	MS 278a

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 8 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 315 x 275 mm, initial 218 x 192 mm, two lines of fragmentary text ruled in plummet and three four-line musical staves ruled in red ink, pasted on cardboard.

CONTENTS: The initial would have introduced the responsory for the first lesson of Matins for the feast of St Nicholas, C[onfessor Dei Nicholaus]

DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of pale pink acanthus on gold ground and surrounded by two-sided borders of acanthus, foliage and gold balls: [C] The Charity of St Nicholas, with signature: nicholau[s] d[e] bono[n]ia fecit.
title:	cutting (manuscript)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Captain Gilpin (nineteenth-century ownership inscription on previous frame); purchased from Frank T. Sabin by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum and presented in 1915.


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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176366

PEOPLE
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Sabin, Frank T.
Gilpin, Captain




TECHNIQUES
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penwork
TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1370 - 1380
creation date earliest:	1370
creation date latest:	1380
culture:	14th Century, second half

CREATORS
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maker: Nascimbene, Nicolò di Giacomo di


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance
title:	Early Italian Paintings from the Museum's Collection including Drawings and Illuminated Manuscripts
title:	Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections
CITATIONS
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Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections
I miniatori dei corali agostiniani: Niccolo di Giacomo e Stefano di Alberto Azzi.
A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula
A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
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