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Treatise on memory: MS 357

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Treatise on memory

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Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Paper (watermark Briquet no. 3868), i modern paper flyleaf + 13 fols. + i modern paper flyleaf, 207 x 135 (160 x 103) mm, 34 – 37 long lines, ruled in black ink, quire and leaf signatures.

BINDING: nineteenth century, marbled paper over pasteboards

CONTENTS: fol. 1r List of capitula for chapters 1 – 14; fols. 1r – 13v Treatise based on Rhetorica ad Herennium, Bk III.1, Cum res ac dispositionem ac modum eas loquendi excogitavimus.

ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initial [Q, 7 ll.] with red pen-flourished infill and frame for list of capitula (fol. 1r); alternate blue and red penwork initials [3 ll.]; capitals highlighted in red.

Notes

History note: Dr Georg Kloss, Frankfurt-am-Main (bookplate inside upper cover); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 27 May 1835, lot 4564; purchased by Longman; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792 – 1872), his MS 11728 (ownership inscription inside upper cover); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 17 – 20 May 1897, lot 200; purchased by Tregaskis; James Stewart Henderson (d.1933); his bequest, 1933.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Henderson, James Stewart

Dating

15th Century
Production date: circa AD 1480

People, subjects and objects depicted

Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Gold

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Text Height 160 mm Width 103 mm
Page Height 207 mm Width 135 mm

Techniques used in production

Penwork
Illumination

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: splendorem. Alius autem
  • Type: Secundo folio

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 357
Primary reference Number: 169779
Project ID: 3514

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 29 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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