IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 209484 accession number: MS 368 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 31 October 2016 updated: Monday 17 April 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: One of two leaves. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 180 x 125 mm, outer ruling frames including captions 140 x 90 mm, framed miniature 135 x 90 mm, captions written in iron-gall ink and vermillion, reverse blank. DECORATION: Full-page miniature in four compartments, illustrating Chapter 58 of La Somme le roi on the virtue of Chastity and the vice of Lust, with burnished gold grounds painted in shell gold with rinceaux motifs, a full pink frame ornamented with white foliage with gold quatrefoils at the corners, and captions in iron-gall ink and vermillion: Female personification of Chastity, Chastee (top left), crowned, standing on a recumbent hog and holding a medallion emblazoned with a bird; Female personification of Lust, Luxure (top right), spitting blood, clasping a manacle and towel; Judith beheading Holofernes, captioned holoferne, judith (bottom left); Joseph fleeing Potiphar’s wife captioned Joseph q[ui] fuit la fole dame (bottom right). title: leaf (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: The two full-page miniatures were once part of a copy of the Somme le roi (London, BL, Add. MS 54180) made for Philip IV of France (1268-1314) and his consort, Jeanne of Navarre (1273-1305), the arms of France and Navarre, first identified by François Avril, appear in the parent manuscript on fol. 97v and fol. 14v respectively (Paris 1998, no. 183); Blanche of Navarre (1330-1398), second wife and queen of Philip VI (1293-1350), listed in the codicil (dated 20 March) to her will of 18 March 1396: ‘Item nous laissons à nostre très chier filz le duc d’Orleans nostre bon livre de la Somme le roy, qui fu au roy Phelippe le Bel, et est bien enluminé’ (Delisle 1885, 30); bequeathed by her to Louis d'Orléans (1372-1407) and possibly inherited by his son, Charles d'Orleans (1394-1465); in the possession of the Prideaux-Brune family of Cornwall from at least 1720, inscribed ‘Edmund Prideaux Anno Dom. 1720 (fol. 3r); MS 368, another single leaf removed from the manuscript, was acquired by Sir Sydney Cockerell from a continental dealer and presented by Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1934. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books creditline: Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/209484 TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript leaf category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1290 - 1295 creation date earliest: 1290 creation date latest: 1295 culture: 13th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Master Honore d'Amiens EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion title: Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328 title: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West title: The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand title: Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts CITATIONS -------- Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils 1285-1328 Illuminated Manuscripts exhibited in the Grenville Library The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328 L'enluminure a l'epoque gothique 1200-1420 Les notes pour l’enlumineur dans les manuscrits du Moyen Age La Somme le Roy par frère Laurent Le système des objets dans le testament de Blanche de Navarre The Parisian Miniaturist Honoré Cockerell as Collector Notice de douze livres royaux du XIIIe et du XIVe siècle Recherches sur la librairie de Charles V Testament de Blanche de Navarre, Reine de France The Murthly Hours. Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Most beautiful and next best: value in the collection of a medieval queen A Study of the Style and Iconography of a Thirteenth-Century Somme le Roi (British Museum, Ms. Add. 54180) with a Consideration of Other Illustrated Somme Manuscripts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Master Honoré: A Reconsideration of the Documents An Illuminated Manuscript of 'La Somme le Roy' attributed to the Parisian miniaturist Honoré The Parisian miniaturist Honoré, the Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts Studies in the Iconography of the Virtues and the Vices in the Middle Ages I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500 History, Typology and Homily: The Joseph Cycle in the Queen Mary Psalter Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France, part II The Eric Millar Bequest to the Department of Manuscripts A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20368.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 843 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/mid_MS_20368.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/MS_20368.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 843 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/preview_MS_20368.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/309/large_MS_368_mas_legacy.jpg height: 1243 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/309/mid_MS_368_mas_legacy.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/309/MS_368_mas_legacy.jpg height: 4000 pixels width: 3294 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/309/preview_MS_368_mas_legacy.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/727/309/MS_368_mas_legacy.ptif height: 4000 pixels width: 3294 pixels