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Commentarium in Cantica canticorum
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern parchment flyleaf + 95 fols. + i modern parchment flyleaf, 195 x 140 mm (140 x 95 mm), 25-26 long lines, ruled in hard point and plummet, quire marks, leaves lost after fols. 17 and 22
BINDING: nineteenth century, blind-tooled brown morocco over pasteboards
SECUNDO FOLIO: agnoscitur. Possibilitas
SCRIPT: Caroline minuscule
CONTENTS
fols. 1v-95v Origen, Commentarium in Cantica canticorum in the Latin translation of Rufinus of Aquileia (ed. Baehrens 1923, 61-198)
ORNAMENTATION
Initial [E, 6 ll.] drawn in red ink, with coiled foliate infill on green ground, followed by opening words in red capitals with green wash, for Commentarium in Cantica canticorum, Bk I (fol. 1v); red initials [3-4 ll.] with blue and green infill for Bks II-III (fols. 30v, 66r); quire marks surrounded by red and brown ink dots (fourteenth-century addition).
History note: At the Franciscan convent in Assisi by 1381 when it was listed in the catalogue of Fra Giovanni Ioli (Cenci 1981, I, 32, 222, no. 328); still there in the seventeenth century and up until the mid-nineteenth century, as it was recorded in the inventories of 1600, 1665 and 1844-1845 (Cenci 1981, II, 495, 514, 597); John Henry Middleton (1846-1896), note in his hand describing the manuscript (fol. i verso); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 26-27 April 1897, lot 338; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his gift, 1904.
Given by Charles Fairfax Murray
Height: 195 mm
Width: 140 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1905)
by
Murray, Charles Fairfax
11th-12th century
1050
-
1150
1150
Support: composed of parchment
Penwork Egg tempura Illumination
Accession number: MS Charles Fairfax Murray 8
Primary reference Number: 207633
Project ID: 1315
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Manuscript"
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Accession Number: MS McClean 119
Accession Number: P.223-1951
Accession Number: MS McClean 201.12a.3
Accession Number: Marlay cutting Fr. 13b
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