IDENTIFIERS
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id:	176490
accession number:	MS 291

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, 180 x 210 mm, two lines of fragmentary text and one fragmentary five-line musical stave ruled in red ink on reverse.

CONTENTS: The initial V would have introduced the Introit of the Mass for Ascension, Viri Galilei, quid admiramini aspicientes; on reverse, part of the Communion for Tuesday before Ascension, [Petite et accipietis] querite inveniet[is].

DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of geometric motifs and stylized acanthus on burnished gold ground, with identical border ornament: [V, 2 ll. of text and one musical stave] Ascension.
title:	cutting (manuscript)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: F.W. Cosens, F.S.A., of Lewes, Sussex; his sale, Christie’s, London, 17-19 May 1890, lot 397; Rev. E.S. Dewick (1844–1917); presented to the Museum by his son, Rev. E.C. Dewick, in 1918.


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/176490

PEOPLE
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Dewick, Rev. E.S.
Cosens, F.W. (F.S.A.)




TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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culture:	15th Century, fourth quarter

CREATORS
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maker: Master of the Cypresses


CITATIONS
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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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