IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170644 accession number: MS Charles Fairfax Murray 12 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Paper (watermarks cf. Briquet nos. 1875, 9173), ii modern paper flyleaves + 191 fols. (contemporary foliation i – iii, iii – cxiii, unfoliated leaf, cxiiii – cxxi, unfoliated leaf, cxxii – cxxiii, unfoliated leaf, cxxiiii – clxi, repeated clxi – clxx, repeated clxx – clxxxvi) + ii modern paper flyleaves, 279 x 199 (193 – 197 x 142 – 149) mm, 2 columns, 39 – 43 lines, ruled in plummet, catchwords, leaf lost between fols. 181 – 182. BINDING: nineteenth century, dark blue morocco over pasteboards, blind-stamped centre and edge design CONTENTS: fols. 2r – 183r Saints’ lives; fol. 183r Prayer for the scribe, O soueraine boniteit douls Ihesucrist; fols. 183v – 187r Athanasian Creed, Quicumque vult, with commentary, Hic beatus Anastasius (sic) librum arbitrium posuit; fol. 187r Creed of St Gregory ; fols. 187v – 189r Description of the churches of Rome and their indulgences, In civitate romana sunt cccclxviij ecclesie inter qas sunt septem principales; fols. 189r – 190r Suffrage and Collects of St Sebastian for use in times of plague; fol. 190r–v Life of St Lawrence, Beatus Laurentius Christi martir et leuita; fols. 190v – 191v Miracles of St Laurence, Templum erat in quodam loco beati Laurentii reliquiis; fol. 191v De privilegiis beati Laurentii, Habet archileuita Laurentius inter ceteros martires tria privilegia (ends imperfectly). ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initial [L, 6 ll.] with red pen-flourished infill and extension (fol. 2r); red or blue penwork initials [2 – 4 ll.] with occasional reserved ornament; red paragraph marks; capitals highlighted in red; cadelles in top line of text highlighted in red and occasionally incorporating faces. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: wife of Jean de Creusif and their son, Jean de Creusif (fifteenth-century ownership inscription, fol. 1r); Stavelot Abbey (fifteenth-century inscription, fol. 1r); sale of the Stavelot Library, Ghent, 25 January 1847, lot 20; Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois (1784 – 1855); Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878), Barrois Collection, no. 471; Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840 – 1913); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 – 14 June 1901, lot 528; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849 – 1919); his gift, 1904. 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/170644 PEOPLE ------------------- Murray, Charles Fairfax Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840 – 1913) Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878) Barrois, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Stavelot Abbey wife of Jean de Creusif TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1460 - 1490 creation date earliest: 1460 creation date latest: 1490 culture: 15th Century, Mid-Late# CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) 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 ---