IDENTIFIERS
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id:	177354
accession number:	MS 285

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 24 August 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/177354

PEOPLE
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Maffei of Volterra, Mario
Askew, Dr Anthony
Wodhull, Michael
Hamilton, Sidney Graves




TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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culture:	15th Century, second quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Eusebius Pamphilii
maker: Pollini, Domenico di Niccolò


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
title:	Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance
CITATIONS
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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
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