IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 178874 accession number: MS 237 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii modern parchment flyleaves + 378 fols. (including modern parchment replacements for the lost original fols. 228, 241, 242, 273, 323, 330, 359) + ii modern parchment flyleaves, 174 x 120 mm (114 x 74 mm), 23 long lines, ruled in crayon, running headers, catchwords BINDING: Nineteenth century, blind-stamped brown leather over wooden boards, by J. Leighton, Brewer Street, London. CONTENTS: fols. 1r-11r Prologue, inc. Beato papa Edamaso (sic) Hieronimus fols. 11v-15v Canon tables fols. 18r-376r New Testament with prologues ORNAMENTATION: Nine Canon Tables beneath arches with interlaced columns painted in red, blue and yellow (fols. 11v-15v); initials [9-23 ll.] formed of knotwork, entwined foliage and geometric patterns in red, green, blue and yellow, and terminating in foliate or zoomorphic motifs for prologue and most biblical books (fols. 1r, 61r, 88v, 137r, 222v, 232r, 236r, 242r, 292v, 311r, 336r, 340v, 344r, 348r, 350v, 355v, 361r), the initial for Acts mostly cut out, leaving the lower shaft in the inner border (fol. 175r), those for Apoc. and St Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews completely excised (fols. 245r, 363r), and those for St Peter’s first Epistle, St John’s second and third Epistle, and St Paul’s Epistles to the Romans, Galatians, Ephesians and Titus lost with the missing leaves (replaced with modern parchment fols. 228, 241, 242, 273, 323, 330, 359); red or blue penwork initials [3-5 ll.] with blue or red pen flourishing for prologues and Gospel of St Matthew (fol. 18v); headings for some books written in alternate blue and red pen-fllourished capitals; alternate blue and red one-line penwork initials with red or blue pen flourishing; capitals highlighted in red; text block on every page enclosed in red penwork frame. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by Charles Butler (1822-1910) in Milan on 1 October 1883 and bound for him for £10 (inscription on recto of first parchment flyleaf at front); purchased for the Museum in 1893. 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/178874 PEOPLE ------------------- Butler, Charles TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1150 - 1150 creation date earliest: 1150 creation date latest: 1150 culture: 12th Century, Mid CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20237_20_281r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/mid_MS_20237_20_281r_29.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20237_20_281r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/preview_MS_20237_20_281r_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20237_20_2811v_2012r_29.jpg height: 551 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/mid_MS_20237_20_2811v_2012r_29.jpg height: 363 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20237_20_2811v_2012r_29.jpg height: 551 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/preview_MS_20237_20_2811v_2012r_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20237_20_28292v_20293r_29.jpg height: 540 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/mid_MS_20237_20_28292v_20293r_29.jpg height: 355 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20237_20_28292v_20293r_29.jpg height: 540 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/preview_MS_20237_20_28292v_20293r_29.jpg height: 178 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/MS_20237_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/mid_MS_20237_20_281r_29.jpg height: 769 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/MS_20237_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/preview_MS_20237_20_281r_29.jpg height: 385 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/MS_20237_20_2811v_2012r_29.jpg height: 571 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/mid_MS_20237_20_2811v_2012r_29.jpg height: 376 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/MS_20237_20_2811v_2012r_29.jpg height: 571 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/preview_MS_20237_20_2811v_2012r_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/MS_20237_20_28292v_20293r_29.jpg height: 560 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/mid_MS_20237_20_28292v_20293r_29.jpg height: 368 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/MS_20237_20_28292v_20293r_29.jpg height: 560 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/preview_MS_20237_20_28292v_20293r_29.jpg height: 184 pixels width: 250 pixels