IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 178727 accession number: Marlay cutting It. 5 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 2 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, columns and lines ruled in plummet, running headers. 457 x 274 mm (recto 373 x 229 mm, verso 368 x 280 mm), two text columns of 62 lines and two gloss columns of 86 lines on recto, two text columns of 60 lines and two gloss columns of 87 lines on reverse (original recto). CONTENTS: Gratian, Decretum, Part II. Causa XII-Causa XIII (Clergy sue to recover tithes paid to a new diocese by those driven from their homes by war; Melnikas 1975, II, 433-61). DECORATION: Marlay cutting It. 5r: One-column miniature: Peasants bearing sacks offer them to the priest who stands behind one altar, while another priest behind an adjacent altar in a darkened church stands alone and lifts his hands in prayer. ORNAMENTATION: Main text: Inhabited initials with half-length portraits, letters painted in graded pink or grey on gold grounds and extending into acanthus sprays to form partial borders, for Causae: Marlay cutting It. 5r [D, 6 ll.] Tonsured head, [Q, 4 ll.] Head; Marlay cutting It. 5v [T, 4 ll.] Male bust; Gloss: Foliate initials [3-8 ll.] in pink or grey on blue grounds with small acanthus extensions, for major divisions (corresponding to both large and small inhabited initials in the main text); alternate red and blue initials [2 ll.] embedded within column with blue or red pen flourishing for minor divisions (corresponding to pen-flourished initials in the main text); voided paraph marks with alternate red and blue display capitals [2-gloss ll.] with minor flourishing in blue or red (guide letters in upper margin) for quaestiones; alternate red and blue paraph marks; simple geometric line-fillers in brown ink to even up gloss columns at the end of Causae. Inter-column decoration: The space between text and gloss columns is decorated with foliate, acanthus and gold disc partial borders and zoomorphic motifs: Marlay cutting It. 5r Stretched out man; Marlay cutting It. 5v Small border. title: leaf (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/178727 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Charles Brinsley TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1320 - 1320 creation date earliest: 1320 creation date latest: 1320 culture: 14th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: The Marlay Gratian atelier maker: Gratian maker: Brescia, Bartolomeo da EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance title: Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections CITATIONS -------- Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. 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