IDENTIFIERS
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id:	178731
accession number:	Marlay cutting It. 9

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 23 May 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, columns and lines ruled in plummet, running headers.  454 x 281 mm (recto 427 x 245 mm, verso 419 x 243 mm), two text columns of 60 lines and two gloss columns of 99 lines on recto, two text columns of 60 lines and two gloss columns of 96 lines on reverse (original recto, which faced the current recto of Marlay cutting It. 8 in the manuscript).

CONTENT: Gratian, Decretum, Part II. End of Causa XIX-Causa XX (One novice chooses the monastic life, another secular life; Melnikas 1975, II, 631-55).

DECORATION: Marlay cutting It. 9r: One-column miniature: One child is led away from the monastery by his mother, while his father presents the other child to a group of monks and their abbot, who holds out a black habit.

ORNAMENTATION
Main text: Inhabited initials with half-length portrait, letters painted in graded pink or grey on gold grounds and extending into acanthus sprays to form partial borders:  Marlay cutting It. 9r [D, 6 ll.] Man seen from behind, [Q, 4 ll.] Tonsured head; Marlay cutting It. 9v [Q, 3 ll.] Hooded head, [I, 4 ll.] Letter formed of half-length figure, holding a jug which breaks into the margin, [C, 4 ll.] Hooded head in profile.

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. 9r Head enclosed in hood which extends in both directions to form a horizontal motif.
title:	leaf (manuscript)

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/178731

PEOPLE
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Marlay, Charles Brinsley




TECHNIQUES
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penwork
TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1320 - 1320
creation date earliest:	1320
creation date latest:	1320
culture:	14th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: The Marlay Gratian atelier
maker: Gratian
maker: Brescia, Bartolomeo da


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance
title:	Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections
CITATIONS
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Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections
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
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