IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 177354 accession number: MS 285 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern paper flyleaf + ii parchment flyleaves + 76 fols. + ii parchment flyleaves + i modern paper flyleaf, 370 x 267 mm (255 x 175 mm, width variable), two or three columns, 40 lines, ruled in hardpoint, alphabetical quire marks in red ink. BINDING: eighteenth century, diced and polished brown calf over wooden boards, with gilt tooling on boards, edges and turn-ins, the alternating palmettes and fleur-de-lys motifs characteristic of bindings from the collection of Dr Anthony Askew (1722-1774). CONTENTS: fols. 1r-3r Prefaces of Jerome and Eusebius fols. 3r-71r Eusebius, Chronica in the Latin version of St Jerome fols. 71v-73v Jerome’s continuation fols. 73v-76v Continuation of Prosper of Aquitaine, ending Valentiniano .vi. & nono consulibus. Hic finit prosper post hieronymum. v. dcxlvi. ORMAMENTATION: Ten white vine-scroll initials [4-5 ll.] in gold on square grounds of blue, dark red and green for major divisions in prose sections (fols. 1r-5v); the text is written in brown and red, with divisions marked by red paraph marks for text in brown, and blue paraph marks for text in red; record of Christ’s birth added in gold (fol. 63r). title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Part of the library of Mario Maffei of Volterra (1463-1537) (erased ownership inscription on fol. 1r, repeated in modern pencil on fol. ii verso: De figli et h[er]edi de M. Mario Maffei); Dr Anthony Askew (1722-1774); his sale at Leigh’s, March 1785; bought by Michael Wodhull (notes on fol. i recto: ‘Leigh’s Auction. Dr Askew’s manuscripts. M: Wodhull, Mar. 12th 1785’); his sale, Sotheby’s, 11 January 1886, lot 1045; bought by Ellis; Sidney Graves Hamilton (1855¬-1916), Fellow and Librarian of Hertford College, Oxford (armorial bookplate inside upper cover); sold at Sotheby’s, July 26 1917, lot 478; bought by Leighton; purchased for the Fitzwilliam Museum in August 1917. 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/177354 PEOPLE ------------------- Maffei of Volterra, Mario Askew, Dr Anthony Wodhull, Michael Hamilton, Sidney Graves TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ culture: 15th Century, second quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Eusebius Pamphilii maker: Pollini, Domenico di Niccolò EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula Recherches des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum 'Latin Classical Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland' A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 737 - 1600 in Cambridge Libraries --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20285_20_281r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 523 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/mid_MS_20285_20_281r_29.jpg height: 727 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20285_20_281r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 523 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/preview_MS_20285_20_281r_29.jpg height: 363 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20285_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 523 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20285_20_281r_29.jpg height: 746 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20285_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 523 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20285_20_281r_29.jpg height: 373 pixels width: 250 pixels