IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 209488 accession number: MS 330.vi DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 1 November 2016 updated: Monday 5 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: trimmed miniature including corner medallions 182 x 112 mm (frame excluding medallions 168 x 106 mm), inlaid in a modern parchment leaf CONTENTS: MS 330.vi First verse of Ps 1 inscribed in white and red display capitals above recumbent figure of Jesse, the rest of Ps 1 and the first two verses of Ps 2 continue on reverse DECORATION: Full-page miniature in dark blue frame ornamented with red dots and interlaced bands of white and gold ornamented with punched dots: Tree of Jesse, with King David, the Virgin, Christ and seven doves symbolising the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, with kings and prophets on either side in semi-circular compartments, identified by the names on their scrolls (Ezekiel, erroneously shown with a crown, Solomon, Hezekiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, holding scroll inscribed … IDERIS … DANIEL, and St John the Baptist, holding scroll inscribed ECCE AGNUS DEI), with medallions incorporated in the frame, showing musicians playing the knee-viol, psaltery, harp and hurdy-gurdy, with the opening words of Ps 1 in display capitals on alternate blue and pink panels above the sleeping Jesse: BEAT[US] VIR Q[UI] N[ON] ABIT IN CONSILIO I[M]PIORU[M] ET IN VI[A] PECCAT[ORU]M N[ON] STETIT ET IN ATHEDRA PESTILE[N]CIE NON SEDIT. title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Provenance note: 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Sydney Cockerell in 1920 for Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7 June 1932, lot 11; withdrawn before the sale at Sydney Cockerell’s initiative and purchased for the Museum by the National Art Collections Fund in 1932.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: Purchased from Alfred Chester Beatty, through the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/209488 PEOPLE ------------------- Barrois, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878) Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840 – 1913) Thomas, George C. Rosenbach, A. S. W., Dr 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, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Brailes, William de maker: Brailes, William de EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: British Primitive Paintings from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, with some related Illuminated Manuscripts, Figure Embroidery, and Alabaster Carvings title: Exhibition of English Medieval Art title: Exhibition of British Art title: British Mediaeval Art 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: Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagent England 1200-1400 title: Saved! 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund title: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West title: Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts CITATIONS -------- British Primitive Paintings from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, with some related Illuminated Manuscripts, Figure Embroidery, and Alabaster Carvings Exhibition Of English Medieval Art Exhibition of British Art Catalogue of an Exhibition of British Medieval Art 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 Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400 The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts 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 Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/89/large_MS_330_vi_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/690/89/mid_MS_330_vi_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MS 330.vi_201101_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/89/preview_MS_330_vi_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/89/MS_330_vi_201101_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/994/large_MS_330_vi_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1660 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/994/mid_MS_330_vi_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 810 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/994/MS_330_vi_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 3864 pixels width: 2384 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/994/preview_MS_330_vi_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 405 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/994/MS_330_vi_201101_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 3864 pixels width: 2384 pixels