1676916142000 1716374773000 Standard Record object-317451 1753812212050 1716374773000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-317451 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/317451 f3739918-68cb-37b3-86f1-98dfe168f4e8 2 reference term-140796 adlib-term-140796 33586661-84b8-3cfc-b9b7-dad66b906e47 printing matrix Paintings, Drawings and Prints Electrotyped woodblock for the title page illustration of, Girolamo Savonarola, Epistola de contemptu mundi ..., edited by Charles Fairfax Murray from the original autograph letter (Kelmscott Press, 1894). The engraved image shows the Dominican Friar, Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) writing at a desk. An hour glass and devotional statuettes of the Virgin and Child and crucified Christ stand on the desk in front of him. Various manuscripts and missals lie open or are stacked on or around the desk. P.15122-R 1 accession number P.15122-R 317451 priref 317451 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/317451 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/317451 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Charles Fairfax Murray, 1917 reference agent-153239 adlib-agent-153239 d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec Murray, Charles Fairfax 1917 1917 1917 given 1894 1894 circa 1894 designer reference agent-153239 adlib-agent-153239 d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec Murray, Charles Fairfax Edited by Charles Fairfax Murray from the original autograph letter of December 5, 1485 written by Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) and sent to his mother, Elena Buonaccorsi, in consolation for her brother's death, Epistola de contemptu mundi di Frate Hieronymo da Ferrara dellordine de Frati Predicatori la Quale Manda ad Elena Buonaccorsi Sua Madre, per consolarla della morte del Fratello, suo zio, was privately printed for Murray by the Kelmscott Press in December 1894, with 50 paper copies and 6 copies on vellum produced. Murray owned the original autograph letter by Savonarola for a time, bought from Mario Foresi, until he sold it in 1903. See original woodblock, P.15123-R. The block was cut by William H. Hooper. For details on the history and production of Murray's Epistola de contemptu mundi ..., see Victoria Kirkham, 'Two letters relocated: Savonarola and Castiglione at Philadelphia's Rosenbach', Lettere Italiane, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Ottobre-Dicembre 1986), pp. 514-524. Murray's design reproduces many of the elements of the woodcut illustration of Savonarola writing in his cell which was published in Savonarola's tract, De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae (The Simplicity of the Christian Life) (published Florence, 1496). See, PB 70.8-2020. reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century reference term-106692 adlib-term-106692 ed7baa11-5901-3307-81b6-77370e40ebb4 wood reference term-82464 adlib-term-82464 775463d5-36ff-36c8-b85a-4e83133448de printing plate reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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