IDENTIFIERS
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id:	178875
accession number:	MS 305

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, i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 21 fols., 235 x 165 mm (158 x 118 mm), two columns, 29 lines, ruled in brown ink

BINDING: fifteenth century, red leather over wooden boards, sewn on three supports, two leather straps with metal clasps on upper cover, two pins on lower cover, rust stains of other metal furniture on pastedowns and leaves at both ends

DECORATION: Full-page miniature with full floral border framed between gold bars: St Clare standing within a rocky landscape, holding a cross and a book, and sheltering members of order under her cloak (fol. 2r).

ORNAMENTATION: Blue initial [E, 3 ll.] on red ground with white foliate ornament and gold initial [I, 3 ll.] on diapered blue and red ground, both accompanied by spraywork extensions with foliage, flowers and gold balls (fol. 1v); alternate blue and red initial [2-5 ll.], and one gold initial [T, 3 ll., fol. 4r] with elaborate red or blue, and occasionally green, pen-flourished infill and extensions; text on fol. 1v written in gold and blue, with capitals in alternative colour; red and blue pen-flourished bars separating the letters of the last word, Amen (fol. 18v); capitals highlighted in yellow throughout.
title:	other

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased at Sotheby’s, London, 27 July 1920, lot 456 and presented by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum.


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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/178875





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:	1450 - 1460
creation date earliest:	1450
creation date latest:	1460
culture:	15th Century, third quarter



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
title:	Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance
CITATIONS
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A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula
Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)
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