IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176520 accession number: MS Charles Fairfax Murray 9 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 25 November 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf + i parchment flyleaf + 380 fols. + i parchment flyleaf + i paper flyleaf, 415 x 280 mm (270 x 190 mm), two columns (except fols. 1r-4r, four columns), 54 lines, ruled in plummet and brown ink, leaf signatures, catchwords in red (fols. 1-144r) and brown (fols. 144v-380r). BINDING: Early nineteenth century, tan calf over pasteboards decorated in gilt and blind, lettered on the spine: CAPITULA AMBROSIANI. M.CCCCC.VIII. MS. IN MEMBRANIS. CONTENTS: fols. 1r-4ra Capitulary to the Milleloquium, parts 1-3 (A-Z); fols. 4ra-v Bartolomeo Caruso, Bishop of Urbino, dedicatory Preface to Pope Clement VI (r. 1342-1352); fols. 4v-7v Testimonia in praise of St Ambrose from St Paulinus of Nola, St Augustine, John of Salisbury and others; fols. 7v-380r Bartolomeo Caruso, Milleloquium, part 1 (A-E, Aaron-Esuries), with mention of the first entry for part 2: Finita prima parte. Sequitur secunda cuius principium est Faber. DECORATION: Two framed column miniatures: fol. 4r [16 ll.] Bishop Bartolomeo Caruso kneels and presents his book to the Pope, watched by four Cardinals and an Augustinian friar, with a vertical gold bar with painted ivy-leaves and flowers on a green stem in the space between the text columns and scrolling acanthus and floral border framing a quatrefoil showing the Madonna of Mercy with her mantle outspread over a church with a black and white façade (Santa Maria Maggiore) at the centre of the upper border, and at the centre of the lower, the arms of Milan; fol. 4v [14 ll.] St Ambrose enthroned within his study, holding crosier and three-knotted scourge, with a vertical bar border extending into ivy-leaf sprays in gold and colours, surmounted by five birds. ORNAMENTATION: Five ornamental initials [4-8 ll.] with letters in graded pink on square gold grounds with painted floral and foliate motifs extending to form partial borders, for the start of each alphabetical section (fols. 7v, 131v, 162v, fol. 264v, fol. 333v); two gold initials [2 ll.] on blue ground within miniatures for the start of the dedicatory preface and Testimonia (fols. 4r, 4v); alternate red and blue penwork initials [3-5 ll.] with purple and red pen flourishing; alternate red and blue paraph marks; simple flourishing around catchwords. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Made for the Fabbrica of the Cathedral of Milan; lent to the Dominicans of St Eustorgio in Milan for copying (Melograni 1993, 11); Charles Butler; William Morris (1834-1896) (bookplate of his library at Kelmscott House inside upper cover); his sale, Sotheby’s, 5 December 1898, lot 120; bought by Lawrence W. Hodson of Compton Hall, Wolverhampton (his bookplate in Kelmscott type inside upper cover); 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 collection: Charles Fairfax Murray STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176520 PEOPLE ------------------- Murray, Charles Fairfax Hodson, Laurence W. Morris, William Butler, Charles Cathedral of Milan TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1408 - 1409 creation date earliest: 1408 creation date latest: 1409 culture: 15th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Caruso of Urbino, Bartolomeo maker: Vimercate, Tomasino da maker: Taegio, Anrigino da maker: Guioldis, Petrus de maker: Bregonziis de Soma, Dyonisius de EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- Dizionario dei miniatori italiani Nuove proposte per il Maestro del libro d'ore di Modena Cum picturis ystoriatum": Struttura e programme iconografici di tre libri d'ore lombardi. A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula Ancora per il miniatore dell' a R. 7. 3 dell'Estense' A Handlist of the Additional MAnuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Received since the Publication of the Catalogue by Dr. M.R. James in 1895, Excluding the McClean Bequest A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Il sistema illustrativo dei codici: un percorso di studio The Master of the Modena Hours, Tomasino da Vimercate, and the Ambrosianae of Milan Cathedral --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20CFM_209_20_28162v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 569 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20CFM_209_20_28162v_29.jpg height: 685 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20CFM_209_20_28162v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 569 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20CFM_209_20_28162v_29.jpg height: 343 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20CFM_209_20_28264v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 556 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20CFM_209_20_28264v_29.jpg height: 701 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20CFM_209_20_28264v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 556 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20CFM_209_20_28264v_29.jpg height: 351 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_380r_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 669 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/mid_MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_380r_dc2.jpg height: 766 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_380r_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 669 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/preview_MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_380r_dc2.jpg height: 383 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_4r_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 694 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/mid_MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_4r_dc2.jpg height: 738 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_4r_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 694 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/preview_MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_4r_dc2.jpg height: 369 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_4v_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 674 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/mid_MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_4v_dc2.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_4v_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 674 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/preview_MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_4v_dc2.jpg height: 380 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_7v_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 680 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/mid_MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_7v_dc2.jpg height: 754 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_7v_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 680 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/preview_MS_20Charles_20Fairfax_20Murray_209_7v_dc2.jpg height: 377 pixels width: 250 pixels