IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 209485 accession number: MS 330.i DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 1 November 2016 updated: Thursday 17 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: One of six miniatures from a Psalter. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: trimmed miniature including corner medallions 203 x 135 mm (frame excluding medallions 178 x 111 mm) inlaid in a modern parchment leaf 357 x 284 mm SCRIPT: Gothic bookhand (textualis) Full-page miniature on gold ground ornamented with punched dots, with inner frame of blue and red triangular and foliate ornament, highlighted in white, and outer frame of gold outlined in black: Fall of the Rebel Angels, with good angels expelling rebellious ones who plunge into Mouth of Hell (below), and Christ enthroned at centre, holding open book, inscribed Alpha and Omega, surrounded by tiers of angels (above). Subsidiary scenes in five medallions and an arched compartment incorporated into the frame show personifications of the Virtues and Vices holding scrolls with inscriptions, three at the top: Charity (CARITAS), Humility (HUMILITAS) and Patience (PACIENCIA), and three at the bottom: Avarice (AVARICIA), with sack of gold around her neck, Pride (SUPERBIA RADIX) and Anger (IRA). title: psalter NOTES ----- type: history note value: Joseph-Baptiste Barrois (1784-1855); Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10-14 June 1901, Barrois collection, lot 404; purchased by Quaritch; George C. Thomas of Philadelphia; Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952); purchased from him by Sydney Cockerell in 1920 for Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7 June 1932, lot 11; withdrawn before the sale at Sydney Cockerell’s initiative and purchased for the Museum by the National Art Collections Fund in 1932 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books creditline: Bought from Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, using the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/209485 PEOPLE ------------------- Beatty, Chester TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1230 - 1250 creation date earliest: 1230 creation date latest: 1250 culture: 13th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Brailes, William de DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 203 dimension: Width units: mm value: 135 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts title: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West title: Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagent England 1200-1400 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: British Mediaeval Art title: Exhibition of British Art title: Exhibition of English Medieval Art title: British Primitive Paintings from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, with some related Illuminated Manuscripts, Figure Embroidery, and Alabaster Carvings CITATIONS -------- Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400 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 Catalogue of an Exhibition of British Medieval Art Exhibition of British Art Exhibition Of English Medieval Art British Primitive Paintings from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, with some related Illuminated Manuscripts, Figure Embroidery, and Alabaster Carvings Brailes, William de Oxford History of English Art: 1216-1307 The Work of W. de Brailes, an English Illuminator of the Thirteenth Century Cockerell as Museum Director The De Brailes Hours: Shaping the Book of Hours in Thirteenth-Century Oxford William de Brailes Brailes, William de The Meaning of Leaf 5 of Fitzwilliam 330 Biblical Imagery in Medieval England, 700-1550 English Illuminators c.1190-1450: A Survey from Documentary Sources English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century The Library of A. Chester Beatty: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts, 4 vols. Early Gothic Manuscripts 1190-1285: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, vol. 4 Old Testament Illustration in Thirteenth-Century England The Golden Munich Psalter Clm 835 Bavarian State Library Munich Leaves from a Psalter by William de Brailes The Oxford Bible Pictures MS W. 106 I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum St Cockerellius: The Director-Collector William de Brailes Painting in Britain in the Middle Ages 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/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/70/large_MS_330_i_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/70/mid_MS_330_i_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/70/MS_330_i_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/70/preview_MS_330_i_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/993/large_MS_330_i_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1530 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/993/mid_MS_330_i_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 747 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/993/MS_330_i_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 3808 pixels width: 2548 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/993/preview_MS_330_i_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 374 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/993/MS_330_i_201101_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 3808 pixels width: 2548 pixels