IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 183611 accession number: MS 354 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i contemporary paper flyleaf + 8 fols. + i contemporary paper flyleaf, 235 x 170 mm (180 x 130 mm), 15 long lines, ruled in hardpoint. BINDING: Contemporary, painted and gold-tooled Italian red morocco over pasteboards, sewn on three supports, remains of four red silk ties. CONTENTS: fols. 2r-8r Diploma of Doctorate in Canon and Civil Law granted to Francisco Magioli de Monte San Vito on 8 November 1645, signed by three witnesses, Constantius Peregrinus, Franciscus Paleotti and Joannes Baptista Ramandinus (fol. 8r). DECORATION: Two historiated initials in gold ink on plain parchment: fol. 2r [G, 6 ll.] St Francis receiving the stigmata, with a half-page heading surrounded by foliage, showing the Virgin and Child in glory, and including IN CHRISTI NOMINE AMEN written in gold ink Italic capitals; fol. 4r [C, 5 ll.] St Anthony of Padua kneeling before an open book, with the Christ Child descending from clouds to offer him a spray of lilies. ORNAMENTATION: Full-page framed armorial achievement of the Magioli de Monte San Vito. On a triple mount an olive tree proper surmounted by a dove, in the canton a star or with a comet’s tail, in the crest a dove and a scroll with the motto MELIORA; all pages are framed within triple ruled lines. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Made for Francisco Magioli de Monte San Vito (in the Marche region) in 1645; acquired by James Stewart Henderson (d.1933) in June 1887 (date pencilled on his armorial bookplate inside the upper cover); his bequest, 1933. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/183611 PEOPLE ------------------- Henderson, James Stewart Magioli de Monte San Vito, Francisco TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ culture: 17th Century, second quarter# 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 ---