IDENTIFIERS
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id:	176520
accession number:	MS Charles Fairfax Murray 9

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 25 November 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books
collection:	Charles Fairfax Murray

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176520

PEOPLE
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Murray, Charles Fairfax
Hodson, Laurence W.
Morris, William
Butler, Charles
Cathedral of Milan




TECHNIQUES
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penwork
TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1408 - 1409
creation date earliest:	1408
creation date latest:	1409
culture:	15th Century, Early

CREATORS
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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
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title:	Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance
CITATIONS
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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
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