IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 178375 accession number: Marlay cutting Sp. 6-12 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, one or two four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and two or three lines with fragmentary words on reverse Marlay cutting Sp. 6a 190 x 155 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 6b 180 x 180 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 7a 170 x 180 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 7b 190 x 185 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 8a 180 x 170 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 8b 172 x 165 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 9a 190 x 160 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 9b 185 x 170 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 10a 170 x 180 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 10b 115 x 115 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 10c 170 x 170 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 11a 85 x 85 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 11b 80 x 80 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 11c 95 x 85 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 11d 100 x 95 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 11e 90 x 80 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 11f 90 x 80 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 11g 90 x 80 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 12a 100 x 90 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 12b 100 x 80 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 12c 80 x 80 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 12d 80 x 90 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 12e 80 x 80 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 12f 90 x 80 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 12g 90 x 80 mm Marlay cutting Sp. 12h 90 x 80 mm DECORATION: Framed miniature [height of two musical staves and three text lines] of the Virgin and Child seated on the Crescent Moon and accompanied by cherubim, shaft of a one-line gold initial preserved on the right edge of the cutting (Marlay cutting Sp. 6a). Eleven historiated initials, mostly in gold set in front of the scenes, which are enclosed within gold, moulded frames: Marlay cutting Sp. 7a [A] Adoration of the Magi; Marlay cutting Sp. 7b [H] Christ addressing twelve disciples in a landscape; Marlay cutting Sp. 8a [L] Bishop accompanied by accolites baptizing a young man, while a woman kneels in prayer; Marlay cutting Sp. 8b [C] Pentecost, with Virgin and two other women in centre; Marlay cutting Sp. 9a [A] Assumption of the Virgin; Marlay cutting Sp. 9b [A] Resurrection, with soldiers falling backwards as an Angel lifts the cover of the sarcophagus and Christ rises up on clouds; Marlay cutting Sp. 10a [V] Ascension; Marlay cutting Sp. 10b [P] Landscape with a house, a bridge and birds on the river; Marlay cutting Sp. 11d [N] Landscape with a figure striding across; Marlay cutting Sp. 12a [O] Landscape; Marlay cutting Sp. 12f [G] enclosing an angel seated on a marble throne, with canopy above, on gold ground with graded purple and blue acanthus and architectural mouldings. ORNAMENTATION: Fourteen initials mostly shaped of acanthus on gold ground: Marlay cutting Sp. 6b [T] shaped of grey acanthus and positioned on a plinth covered with a tasselled cloth against gold ground with roses and blue, orange and mosaic gold acanthus; Marlay cutting Sp. 10c [C] formed of a band of fleurs-de-lis, filled with flowers and enclosed within a frame of fleur-de-lis on brown ground; Marlay cutting Sp. 11a [M] shaped of graded pink acanthus on gold ground with roses, foliage and antique mask; Marlay cutting Sp. 11b [P] shaped of graded grey acanthus on gold ground with pink acanthus and flowers; Marlay cutting Sp. 11c [O] shaped of graded grey acanthus on gold ground with acanthus and a winged cherub’s head; Marlay cutting Sp. 11e [G] shaped of graded pink acanthus on gold ground with grey acanthus; Marlay cutting Sp. 11f [Q] shaped of graded grey acanthus on gold ground with acanthus and moulded frame; Marlay cutting Sp. 11g [V] shaped of mosaic gold acanthus on gold ground with graded blue and grey acanthus; Marlay cutting Sp. 12b [S] in silver ink on gold ground with acanthus and architectural mouldings; Marlay cutting Sp. 12c [I] shaped of mosaic gold acanthus and surmounted by a winged cherub’s head on gold ground with graded blue acanthus; Marlay cutting Sp. 12d [C] shaped of graded grey acanthus on blue ground with gold leaf foliate ornament; Marlay cutting Sp. 12e [S] shaped of graded grey acanthus on gold ground with roses, acanthus and a human head; Marlay cutting Sp. 12g [D] in silver ink on gold ground with blue and mosaic godl acanthus and architectural mouldings; Marlay cutting Sp. 12h [V] shaped of graded grey acanthus on gold ground with acanthus, flowers, birds and a human head. title: cutting (manuscript) 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/178375 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Charles Brinsley TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1650 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1650 culture: 17th Century, first half# CITATIONS -------- 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/msspb/msspb3/Marlay_20Cutting_20Sp__2010c.jpg height: 759 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb3/mid_Marlay_20Cutting_20Sp__2010c.jpg height: 499 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb3/Marlay_20Cutting_20Sp__2010c.jpg height: 759 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb3/preview_Marlay_20Cutting_20Sp__2010c.jpg height: 250 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/659/932/large_Marlay_cutting_Sp__6_12_Marlay_Cutting_Sp__10c_mas.jpg height: 1212 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/659/932/mid_Marlay_cutting_Sp__6_12_Marlay_Cutting_Sp__10c_mas.jpg height: 592 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/Marlay cutting Sp. 6-12_Marlay Cutting Sp. 10c_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/659/932/preview_Marlay_cutting_Sp__6_12_Marlay_Cutting_Sp__10c_mas.jpg height: 296 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/659/932/Marlay_cutting_Sp__6_12_Marlay_Cutting_Sp__10c_mas.ptif height: 4731 pixels width: 3998 pixels