1592999876000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-178883 1755194565772 1711379458000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-178883 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/178883 73352450-8951-32d0-be95-6a38a9f190e1 10 reference agent-153239 adlib-agent-153239 d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec Murray, Charles Fairfax reference agent-175110 adlib-agent-175110 41c8dcf6-f643-3cb2-af2e-435386da1a27 Bennett, Richard reference agent-95732 adlib-agent-95732 31b812d0-d5d1-3e22-bd3f-25152c4f9d4c Morris, William reference term-110558 adlib-term-110558 ee824bc5-8d70-3060-824d-9ed6f392557b illuminated manuscript reference term-114522 adlib-term-114522 76be19ae-554e-3b73-af2d-112e09263aaf manuscript reference term-129826 adlib-term-129826 e5fa1d74-b829-3cf1-8848-5ca1d21716cd Charles Fairfax Murray reference term-118780 adlib-term-118780 c5f3b968-f763-357a-b740-9f216e114859 parchment Support Manuscripts and Printed Books PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 124 fols., 250 x 180 mm (175 x 127 mm), 31-32 long lines, ruled in faint brown ink, catchwords, quire and leaf signatures. BINDING: Sixteenth century, limp vellum, sewn on three supports, two pairs of leather ties, the pastedowns are fragments from a fifteenth-century Italian liturgical manuscript, with part of its colophon showing in reverse inside the upper cover, [F]inito libro refferamus gratias Christo. Amen. CONTENTS: fols. 1r-3r Prologue, rubric Qui si comincia el libro (crossed out) prologho del libro di sidracho lo strolagho lo qual parla di tucte le cose che al uomo bisognano, inc. La providença di dio lo padre tucto possente; fols. 3r-114r Il libro di Sidrach, rubric Qui si comincia lo libro del savio sidracho per lo consiglio del quale el re botusso hedifico la sua torre, inc. Uno re era alleuante lo qual era signor; fols. 114r-122v Table of questions 1-551 (some questions omitted, others listed in table, but not found in main text); fol. 122v Colophon with puzzle suggesting that the scribe’s name was Pietro Pico: Explicit liber sidrach’ astrologi, una cum capitulis suis, Scriptor sum talis mea mostrat litera quails Nomen a primevo ecclexie clavigero sumpsi Cognomen vero a quadam bicolore ave E qua carmen istud magistrale datur Nigrior una pisce, pars altera candida pice fol. 123r-v Continuation of table with questions 447-476 and 512-538 written out of order, and questions 447-448 listed twice; fol. 124r-v Additional questions 179, 186, 194, unnumbered one, and 202, with rubric Questi sono alguni errori (they correspond to questions 178, 185, 195, 194 and 200 in the table, but are not found in the main text). DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink on gold and blue ground with spraywork and floral extensions: [L, 7 ll.] Half-length author portrait. Three unframed ink drawings coloured in green, blue, red, pink and mosaic gold, and inset within the text block: fol. 3v [17 ll.] Building the tower of King Boctus; fol. 4v [15 ll.] King Boctus and a counsellor observe as soldiers imprison an astrologer; fol. 8v [14 ll.] King Boctus and his courtiers observe as Sydrach destroys two idols on an altar. ORNAMENTATION: Alternate blue and red penwork initials [2-3 ll.] for questions; calligraphic extensions to the ascenders and descenders of letters in upper and lower margins. 49 reference exhibition-2188 adlib-exhibition-2188 9a850e5f-3233-32c7-af19-629d05ff52d0 Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance MS Charles Fairfax Murray 16 1 accession number MS Charles Fairfax Murray 16 178883 priref 178883 Cambridge Illuminated project ID 1321 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/178883 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/178883 no de grecesco secundo folio reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-153239 adlib-agent-153239 d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec Murray, Charles Fairfax 1905 1905 1905 given 1425 1425 CE 1425 circa 1425 1450 1 1450 CE 1450 circa 1450 scribe reference agent-186971 adlib-agent-186971 9f6a844c-f188-378b-ab71-d07b1ce3f793 Pico, Pietro reference term-129034 adlib-term-129034 7553da11-c8aa-348e-813e-4f65ef2f62bf 15th Century, second quarter reference term-106518 adlib-term-106518 e3082340-b0d5-357a-ab15-283024f9bed7 Venice reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold reference term-130302 adlib-term-130302 0a2f9320-5d8d-3aba-a4b5-783204e89f10 other type of text history note William Morris (1834-1896), his bookplate inside upper cover; purchased with the rest of Morris’s library by Richard Bennett of Pendleton, near Manchester; sold by him at Sotheby’s, London, 5-10 Dec. 1898, lot 1076; purchased by Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919); his gift, 1905. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference number literal name Cambridge Illuminated Cambridge Illuminated reference publication-7879 adlib-publication-7879 5320a5c5-b056-32fa-a5f8-916332a53e8c A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula 28-30 reference publication-3460 adlib-publication-3460 13e67102-3524-3de8-b0a6-4f35db4197ad A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum

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