IDENTIFIERS
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id:	176542
accession number:	Marlay cutting It. 18

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 14 July 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 305 x 320 mm, four lines of fragmentary text and four fragmentary four-line musical staves ruled in red on reverse.

CONTENTS: The initial introduced the Introit of the Mass for the Assumption of the Virgin, Gaudeamus [omnes in domino diem festem celebrantes sub], which continues on the reverse, honore marie virginis. De cuius assumptione gaudent angeli et collaudant filium dei.

DECORATION: Historiated initial in blue and graded pink foliate forms on a shaped ground of solid gold with painted foliate forms: [G] Dormition of the Virgin, with Saints Peter, Paul and John behind her, and the lame and blind in the foreground.

ORNAMENTATION: The text adjacent to the initial is written in burnished gold on solid blue ground with white highlighting, the music in burnished gold on white staves on painted ground.
title:	cutting (manuscript)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: William Young Ottley (1771-1836); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 11 May 1838, lot 191; Rev. John Fuller; Thomas Miller Whitehead, 1853; note ‘1887. No. 2396’ on earlier cardboard mount


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/176542

PEOPLE
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Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Whitehead, Thomas Miller
Fuller, Rev. John
Ottley, William Young




TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1420 - 1420
creation date earliest:	1420
creation date latest:	1420
culture:	15th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Master of the Murano Gradual


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts
title:	Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
title:	Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480
title:	Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance
title:	The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West
title:	The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand
title:	Early Italian Paintings from the Museum's Collection, including drawings and illuminated manuscripts
CITATIONS
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The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West
Dizionario dei miniatori italiani
Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts
The Wildenstein Collection of Illuminations: The Lombard School
Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art, 1300-1480
A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula
Su Belbello da Pavia e sul 'Miniatore di San Michele a Murano'
A Gothic miniature from Murano
The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand
Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington.
Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
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