IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169745 accession number: MS 203 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 17 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, heavily trimmed on all four sides and corners cut off, c.162 – 248 x 128 – 220 (c.225 x 190) mm, 2 columns, 20 – 24 extant lines, ruled in brown. CONTENTS: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, ch. XXIX.3 – XXXI.2. DECORATION: Eight framed miniatures, approximately a third of the original page size, drawn in ink, with green, red, brown, yellow and pink washes: fol. 1r Samson and the Lion, Ehud kills Eglon; fol. 1v Virgin armed with Instruments of the Passion triumphs over devil, Judith kills Holofernes; fol. 2r Jael kills Sisera, Tomyris kills Cyrus; fol. 2v Harrowing of Hell, Moses leads Israelites out of Egypt. ORNAMENTATION: Red penwork initial [I, 5 ll.] for the beginning of ch. XX (fol. 1v); red captions for images; capitals at the beginning of each verse highlighted in red. title: leaf (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Edwin Henry Lawrence; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 9 – 12 May 1892, part of lot 429; purchased by Bernard 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/169745 PEOPLE ------------------- Sandars, Samuel Quaritch, Bernard Lawrence, Edwin Henry TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1330 - 1360 creation date earliest: 1330 creation date latest: 1360 culture: 14th Century# EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Speculum Humanae Salvationis. Eine Typengeschichtliche Untersuchung. Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands ---