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Historiated initial from an Antiphoner
Libri, Girolamo dai
(Artist)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 170 x 173 mm, two fragmentary four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and two lines of fragmentary words on reverse, partially obscured by cardboard onto which they were mounted previously.
CONTENTS: Part of Psalm 109 and the antiphon for Matins for the Feast of the Conception of the Virgin (8 Dec.) on reverse: David. Ps[almus] Dixi[t dominus domino meo]…[con]ceptio est hodi[e]; the initial would have introduced the antiphon, Conceptio est hodie.
DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of pink acanthus with green and blue details on gold ground: [C, 2 ll.] St Anne seated on a stone bench within a landscape, the Virgin, dragon at her feet, seated on St Anne’s lap, and the Christ Child standing on the Virgin’s knee, holding an olive branch and blessing.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1912)
by
Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Second quarter of 16th century
Circa
1540
CE
-
Circa
1550
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting Z. 3
Primary reference Number: 178990
Project ID: 1428
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books
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Accession Number: MS McClean 201.13a
Accession Number: MS McClean 201.13c
Accession Number: Marlay cutting It. 80c
Accession Number: MS McClean 201.13t
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