IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176559 accession number: MS 5-1979 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 5 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 170 x 165 mm, initial 150 x 145 mm, mounted on cardboard. CONTENTS: The initial D, pasted on cardboard, would have opened the Introit to the Mass for the feast of St Clement (23 November), Dicit dominus sermones mei. DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded blue, orange, pale yellow and liquid gold with acanthus extensions on a ground of gold leaf: [D] St Clement holding a book and blessing. title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: The initial belonged to a set of three choir books made for the Camaldolese Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence: Corale 2 (Gradual), fol. 159; excised during the Napoleonic campaigns, 1797-1809; thereafter: J.H. Fitzhenry; Sir Thomas Ralph Merton (1888-1969), acquired by 1950; purchased by the Museum in 1979. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176559 PEOPLE ------------------- Merton, Sir Thomas Ralph Fitzhenry, J.H. Camaldolese Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1370 - 1375 creation date earliest: 1370 creation date latest: 1375 culture: 14th Century, second half CREATORS -------- maker: Gherarducci, Don Silvestro dei maker: Canzoni, Maestro delle maker: Rosselli, Niccolo maker: Cenni, Cenni di Francesco di Ser EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480 title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance title: Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450 CITATIONS -------- Tendencies of the Gothic in Florence: Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450 I corali di S. Maria degli Angeli ora nella Biblioteca Laurenziana e le miniature da essi asportate 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 Miniature italiane della Fondazione Giorgio Cini A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/759/large_MS_5_1979_mas.jpg height: 1274 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/759/mid_MS_5_1979_mas.jpg height: 622 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/759/MS_5_1979_mas.jpg height: 4985 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/759/preview_MS_5_1979_mas.jpg height: 311 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/759/MS_5_1979_mas.ptif height: 4985 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/758/large_MS_5_1979_dc1.jpg height: 1040 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/758/mid_MS_5_1979_dc1.jpg height: 508 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/758/MS_5_1979_dc1.jpg height: 3500 pixels width: 3445 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/758/preview_MS_5_1979_dc1.jpg height: 254 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/758/MS_5_1979_dc1.ptif height: 3500 pixels width: 3445 pixels