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PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 183 x 152 mm, four four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and four lines of fragmentary text ruled in hard point on reverse.
CONTENTS: On reverse, part of the Offertory of the Mass for the Vigil for the feast of Pentecost, [Emitte Spiri]tum tuum et creabun[tur et renova]bis faciem ter[re. Sit gloria] domini in saecula [allelu]ya, followed by the rubric Agnus dei dicitur et pacis oscula datur and the beginning of the Communion, Ultimo [festivitatis die dicebat Ihesus…]; the initial S, which would have been on the verso of the original leaf, opened the Introit of the Mass for Pentecost, Spiritus domini replevit orbem terrarum.
DECORATION: Historiated initial in gold on green or dark red ground with stylized foliate motifs painted in silver and terminating in red flowers, surrounded by multi-coloured frames: [S, 4 ll.] Pentecost.
ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork one-line initial [V] with red pen flourishing on the reverse.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century, second quarter#
Circa
1430
CE
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Circa
1440
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 15a
Primary reference Number: 181227
Project ID: 3445
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Cutting (manuscript)" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/181227 Accessed: 2024-11-25 00:58:33
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