15929998590001312637261000Standard Recordobject-176661170197579232215982667270001701975718280fitz-onlineadlib-object-176661https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17666151d990ca-3b9f-3ee8-942b-7b76dbf555bd8referenceagent-184666adlib-agent-1846664151454a-e1dd-317d-a7d5-ac718fceeb18Phillipps, Thomas, Sirreferenceterm-110558adlib-term-110558ee824bc5-8d70-3060-824d-9ed6f392557billuminated manuscriptreferenceterm-114522adlib-term-11452276be19ae-554e-3b73-af2d-112e09263aafmanuscriptreferenceterm-128973adlib-term-1289732bb6bf42-6d2a-3f9b-9fee-39c0cffb3f2fFitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscountreferenceterm-118780adlib-term-118780c5f3b968-f763-357a-b740-9f216e114859parchmentSupportManuscripts and Printed BooksPHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i parchment flyleaf + 89 fols. + i parchment flyleaf, 170 x 120 mm (105 x 65 mm), 22 long lines, ruled in crayon and plummet, catchwords, leaf signatures
BINDING: fifteenth century, brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on three supports, gold-tooled and blind-stamped with interlaced knots and roundels, small metal bosses at the corners of both covers.
CONTENTS:
fols. 1r-31v Cicero, De senectute
fols. 32r-47v Cicero, Paradoxa
fols. 48r-62v De consolatu petendo
fols. 63r-81r Cicero, De amicitia
fols. 81v-84r Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem
fols. 84r-89v Pseudo-Cicero, Invectiva in Crispum Sallustium
ORNAMENTATION: Four white vinescroll initials [9 ll.] in gold edged in black and yellow on shaped grounds of dark red, blue and green for the beginning of texts (fols. 1r, 32r, 48r, 63r), the initial on fol. 1r accompanied in the lower margin by a shield of arms, azure three lions’ heads or below a fess or and in chief argent a rose gules with the letters A.S. (probably a later addition), encircled by wingless dragon with a gold cross on its back; blue, gold, and red initials [1-2 ll.] for lesser divisions and the beginning of the Invectiva in Ciceronem (fols. 81v and 84r); rubrics in multi-coloured epigraphic capitals in the sequence gold, blue, red, green and purple on alternate lines; smaller coloured epigraphic capitals for the opening lines of each work, each of the paradoxa, and the names of the speakers in De amicitia.MS 2551accession numberMS 255176661priref176661project ID3453urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176661https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176661[confec]tio fuitsecundo folioreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreferenceagent-186464adlib-agent-18646450e40bbf-ae61-3dac-93e5-55519df9d60bMessrs Leighton189918991899bought14501450CE1450circa1450147511475CE1475circa1475authorreferenceagent-185607adlib-agent-185607418c078e-8725-3cb7-b05c-530e88e4d307Ciceroauthorreferenceagent-186356adlib-agent-186356893c06c4-7dac-313b-9a6c-a97fc7957d18Sallustscribereferenceagent-186355adlib-agent-1863554cdb7a0a-f6e9-3994-848a-92abd927cbf4Scribe of the Albi Straboreferenceterm-129041adlib-term-1290415b3d088d-3e25-3837-86c2-c8bf96fccd2315th Century, third quarter#referenceterm-107784adlib-term-107784e150c40d-e1bc-3e0d-b9bb-8b1e1fc8f950Paduareferenceterm-106518adlib-term-106518e3082340-b0d5-357a-ab15-283024f9bed7Venicereferenceterm-39593adlib-term-39593e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312dgoldreferencemedia-166556adlib-media-16655640eb88eb-ebb6-3afb-b6a8-cdc16ade3314jpegmsspb/msspb4/MS_20255_20_281r_29.jpg1heightpixels760widthpixels54616162507257281imagejpegmsspb/msspb4/mid_MS_20255_20_281r_29.jpg1heightpixels696widthpixels50016162507257281imagejpegmsspb/msspb4/MS_20255_20_281r_29.jpg1heightpixels760widthpixels54616162507257281imagejpegmsspb/msspb4/preview_MS_20255_20_281r_29.jpg1heightpixels348widthpixels25016162507257281image0media
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imagereferenceterm-130302adlib-term-1303020a2f9320-5d8d-3aba-a4b5-783204e89f10otherhistory notePurchased by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), his MS 4175, from Stewart, a London bookseller, in 1830; Sotheby’s, 5 June, 1899, lot 379; purchased for the Museum from Messrs Leighton in 1899.referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreference numberliteralnameCambridge IlluminatedCambridge Illuminated184-85referencepublication-3460adlib-publication-346013e67102-3524-3de8-b0a6-4f35db4197adA descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museumreferencepublication-7879adlib-publication-78795320a5c5-b056-32fa-a5f8-916332a53e8cA Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsulacat. no. 6890referencepublication-6949adlib-publication-6949d5014799-185b-37df-94d6-32011ba5d4b6The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450 - 1550referenceterm-130302adlib-term-1303020a2f9320-5d8d-3aba-a4b5-783204e89f10otherotherreferenceterm-25908adlib-term-2590873499d13-1ec4-30b6-aed9-641f768c023billuminationCicero, Selected worksobject
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