IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176646 accession number: Marlay cutting It. 83 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 2 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment 190 x 230 mm, miniature 185 x 225 mm, pasted on white cardboard, nine lines of fragmentary text on reverse partially revealed. CONTENTS: Fragmentary text revealed by the partially removed cardboard: tanto onore… Quando… …ueram… DECORATION: Large framed miniatures on burnished gold or coloured backgrounds, some preserving marginal scenes and decoration: Martyrdoms of St Peter (left) and St Paul (right). St Peter is shown crucified head down between the two monuments, Meta Romuli and Nero’s Terebinthus, near the site of his martyrdom in the Circus of Nero. St Paul’s martyrdom shows him being beheaded at Aquae Salviae (now Tre Fontane), the three springs created, according to legend, as his decapitated head bounced three times, and then returning Plautilla’s veil which was used to blindfold him during the decollation. ORNAMENTATION: Alternate blue and red penwork initials [1-2 ll.] with red or violet pen-flourished infill and extensions for the beginning of stanzas. title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Compagnia di Sant’ Agnese, Florence, c.1330-1340; Thomas Miller Whitehead, acquired in 1855; acquired by Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912) before 1886; his bequest, 1912. 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/176646 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Charles Brinsley Whitehead, Thomas Miller Compagnia di Sant’ Agnese TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1330 - 1340 creation date earliest: 1330 creation date latest: 1340 culture: 14th Century, second quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Bonaguida, Pacino di, and associates EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Catalogue of a Series of Illuminations from Manuscripts principally of the Italian and French Schools title: Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480 title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance title: Early Italian Paintings from the Museum's Collection including Drawings and Illuminated Manuscripts title: Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450 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 CITATIONS -------- 'The Laudario of Sant' Agnese in Florence: Compagnia, Carmelites and the Community of Saints The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West Miniature a Brera, 1100-1422: Manoscritti della Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense e da collezioni private Catalogue of a Series of Illuminations from Mss. Principally of the Italian and French Schools Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450 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 New Miniatures by Pacino di Bonaguida in Cambridge The Fourteenth Century. 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