IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 181286 accession number: Marlay cutting Z. 4c DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 2 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 110 x 120 mm, image within initial 90 x 63 mm. Made up of an image painted onto re-used pieces of parchment taken from the borders of a fifteenth-century manuscript and superimposed parchment sections containing the halos, the letters, and their gold backgrounds. DECORATION: Historaited initial in pink with acanthus extensions on gold ground, images within letter on blue ground: [O] Bust of a prophet holding a blank scroll. title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Thomas Miller Whitehead, acquired in June 1855 (ownership inscription on reverse) 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/181286 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Charles Brinsley Whitehead, Thomas Miller TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1475 - 1499 creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1499 culture: 15th Century, Late-19th Century EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Catalogue of a Series of Illuminations from Manuscripts principally of the Italian and French Schools CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of a Series of Illuminations from Mss. Principally of the Italian and French Schools Iacopo da Balsemo miniatore (c. 1425-c. 1503) Codici e incunaboli miniati della Biblioteca Civica di Bergamo A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula La Spezia. Museo Civico Amadeo Lia: Miniature A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/659/985/large_Marlay_cutting_Z__4c_mas.jpg height: 1259 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/659/985/mid_Marlay_cutting_Z__4c_mas.jpg height: 615 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/659/985/Marlay_cutting_Z__4c_mas.jpg height: 4929 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/659/985/preview_Marlay_cutting_Z__4c_mas.jpg height: 307 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/710/large_Marlay_cutting_Z__4c_dc1.jpg height: 985 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/710/mid_Marlay_cutting_Z__4c_dc1.jpg height: 481 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/710/Marlay_cutting_Z__4c_dc1.jpg height: 3367 pixels width: 3500 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/710/preview_Marlay_cutting_Z__4c_dc1.jpg height: 241 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/710/Marlay_cutting_Z__4c_dc1.ptif height: 3367 pixels width: 3500 pixels