IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176528 accession number: MS Marlay 18.i DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 13 October 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 238 x 217 mm, three lines of fragmentary text and three fragmentary four-line musical staves ruled in red on reverse CONTENTS: The initial introduced the antiphon for Lauds on Easter Sunday, Angelus domini descendit de caelo et accedens, which continues on the reverse, revolvit lapid[em et se]debat super eum…alleluya alleluya. DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of stylized masonry on burnished gold ground, with green branches and laurel leaves, symbolic of the Resurrection, growing through the masonry and terminating in a blue flower: [A, 3 text lines and 3 musical staves] Resurrection, with the Angel lifting the lid of the tomb, as the soldiers fall backwards and the two Women approach from the distance. title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Pierre-Henri Gélis Didot (1853–1902); his sale, Paris, 12–13 April 1897, lot 111 (nos. 1-3) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Charles Brinsley Marlay STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176528 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Charles Brinsley Didot, Pierre-Henri Gélis TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1460 - 1460 creation date earliest: 1460 creation date latest: 1460 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance title: Early Italian Paintings from the Museum's Collection including Drawings and Illuminated Manuscripts CITATIONS -------- Italian Illuminated Manuscripts of the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries in British Collections The Wildenstein Collection of Illuminations: The Lombard School A Baptism of Constantine by Girolamo da Cremona Postille a Girolamo da Cremona La miniatura nei manoscritti liturgici della congregazione di S. Giustina in area padana: opere e contenuti devozionali. 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/660/479/large_MS_Marlay_18_i_mas.jpg height: 1262 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/660/479/mid_MS_Marlay_18_i_mas.jpg height: 616 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MS Marlay 18.i_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/660/479/preview_MS_Marlay_18_i_mas.jpg height: 308 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/660/479/MS_Marlay_18_i_mas.ptif height: 4935 pixels width: 4003 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/725/138/large_MS_Marlay_18_i_dc1.jpg height: 1104 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/725/138/mid_MS_Marlay_18_i_dc1.jpg height: 539 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/725/138/MS_Marlay_18_i_dc1.jpg height: 3500 pixels width: 3245 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/725/138/preview_MS_Marlay_18_i_dc1.jpg height: 270 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/725/138/MS_Marlay_18_i_dc1.ptif height: 3500 pixels width: 3245 pixels