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1. Add MS 46365 A

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A. 'Vrbs Roma', in military dress, seated upon a pile of armour, holding a broken sword and a figure of Victory, flanked by the letters S and C, and enclosed within an architectural roundel and frame. The composition is based on figures from antique coins, cf. H. Mattingly, Coins of the Roman Em...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
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1 item

2. Add MS 46365 B

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B. The martyrdom of St Bartholomew. On the verso is the traditional collect, according to Roman use, for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin. From a collectar, another leaf from which, bearing a miniature of the crucifixion of a martyr and the collect for the Feast of St Francis of Assisi,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
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1 item

3. Add MS 46365 C-D

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C, D. Two miniatures of putti (?) celebrating the names of Christ and the Virgin. In each the monogram (IHS and MAR respectively) within an aureole is flanked by musicians seated on clouds, with a group of dancing figures below. In the latter miniature the figures are apparently female. Stylistically related to Add. MS. 54246 (see The Eric George Millar Bequest, Brit. Mus. Quart., xxxiii, 1-2, 1968, pl. xvi). Approx. 128 x 93 mm. and 125 x 90 mm., laid down on cartridge paper. Early 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
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2 items

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