IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169658 accession number: MS 11 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern paper flyleaves + 83 fols. + iii modern paper flyleaves, 158 x 109 (142 x 110) mm, ruled in black ink. BINDING: 19th century, gold tooled stiff-board vellum, leather tabs at beginning of biblical books. CONTENTS: fols. 1r-2r Three short passages from the works of Ovid (Ex Ponto, III, 1, 157-8; Tristia, II, 31-2; Ex Ponto, III-IV, 79-82) and extracts from a letter of St Jerome, Epistula Ieronymi ad Paulinum de omnibus divinae historiae libris; fols. 2v - 82r Abridged text of each book of the Latin bible, excluding 2 Esdras. DECORATION: 1343 pen and ink drawings coloured in green, red, blue and yellow, and summarizing in a mnemonic fashion the contents of biblical books from Gn to Apc, chapter by chapter. The opening words of each chapter are written in red above the corresponding image. The drawings, normally 10 per page, are arranged mostly in four rows forming an hour-glass or tower shape consisting of three rectangular compartments in the top row (a, b, c), two circular ones in the second row, two rectangular compartments in the third row, and three in the fourth. The drawings illustrate a key word or phrase in the chapter or a narrative detail. An almost contemporary hand has written explanations in Latin within the compartments from Gn 1 to Sam 17, and more sparsely after that. title: bible NOTES ----- type: history note value: Eighteenth-century ownership inscription including the name Johan Henrics, possibly a pharmacist (fol. 1r); Peter, Count von Salis-Soglio, 1828 (ownership inscriptions, fols. 1v, 82v); F.S. Ellis; his sale at Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 1885, lot 554; purchased by Quaritch; Samuel Sandars (1837 – 1894); his gift to the Museum, 1892 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/169658 PEOPLE ------------------- Sandars, Samuel Quaritch Salis Saglio, Peter von, Count Ellis, F.S. Henrics, Johan TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1490 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1490 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 15th Century, Late CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum From Manuscript to Engravings: Late Medieval Mnemonic Bibles Biblia Sacra figuris expressa: Mnemotechnische Bilderbibeln des 15. Jahrhunderts A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. 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