IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 181235 accession number: Marlay cutting It. 82 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 3 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 91 x 100 mm, one four-line musical stave ruled in red ink, one line of fragmentary text ruled in pale brown ink. CONTENTS: On reverse, fragmentary text from the Matins Hymn, Virginis proles, for the Common for the Nativity of a Virgin, [et comp]ar tibi [utriusque semper]; the initial, which would have been on the verso of the leaf, introduced the antiphon for the psalms of the first nocturn at Matins for the feast of the Commemoration of St Clare (12 Aug.), O quam pulcra est casta generation; the office for St Clare was mostly taken from the Common of the Nativity of a Virgin. DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink and green with foliate motifs on a square ground of solid gold: [O] St Clare. title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Carl Wiesböck (signature on verso: C. Wiesbochus 1845); pencil note No 8 on verso; Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912); his bequest, 1912. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Charles Brinsley Marlay STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/181235 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Charles Brinsley Wiesböck, Carl TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1450 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1450 culture: 15th Century, Mid# EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- 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 ---