IDENTIFIERS
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id:	180470
accession number:	MS 197

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 20 June 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 578 x 400 mm (398 x 228 mm), 29 long lines, ruled in ink and accommodating two lines of text and two four-line musical staves ruled in red ink on each side of the leaf

CONTENTS: On reverse (original recto): Antiphon for the psalm Salvum me fac of the first nocturn of Matins for Septuagesima Sunday, [Tu Domine servabis nos et cus]todies nos, followed by Ps[almus] Salvum me fac d[eus]. V[ersiculus] Memor fui nocte nominis tui d[omine]. R[esponsorium] Et custodivi legem tuam; the miniature and initial, which would have been on the original verso, introduced the responsory for the first lesson of Matins for Septuagesima Sunday, In principio fecit Deus celum et ter[ram] (Gen I:1)

DECORATION: Large framed miniature of the Creation of heaven and earth, accompanied by a graded blue initial [I, 17 ll.] on burnished gold ground, with acanthus leaves extending into a full border containing birds, vases, gold balls and putti supporting a wreath medallion with the (overpainted) arms of the Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena.

ORNAMENTATION: Alternate blue and red penwork initials [2-4 ll.] with reserved ornament.
title:	leaf (manuscript)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the Choir books of the Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena made during the rectorship of Niccolò Ricoveri (1456-1476/1477); probably belonged to William Young Ottley (1771-1836), as suggested by François Avril (in Avignon 1983, 351), but it has not been possible to identify them among the lots in his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 11-12 May 1838; purchased for the Museum in 1891.


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/180470

PEOPLE
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Ottley, William Young
Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala




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:	1460 - 1477
creation date earliest:	1460
creation date latest:	1477
culture:	15th Century, third quarter

CREATORS
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maker: Pietro, Sano di
maker: Rossini, Pellegrino di Mariano


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
title:	Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480
title:	Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420 - 1500
title:	Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance
title:	Early Italian Paintings from the Museum's Collection, including drawings and illuminated manuscripts
CITATIONS
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
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: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion
Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480
Lo Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena: vicenda di una commitenza artistica
Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420 - 1500
The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations: catalog of an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library,  Decemeber 9 1992 - April 4 1993
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