IDENTIFIERS
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id:	170645
accession number:	MS Charles Fairfax Murray 21

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 20 May 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Paper (watermark Briquet no. 8658), ii modern paper flyleaves + 108 fols. + ii modern paper flyleaves, 289 x 209 (183 x 115) mm, 32 – 34 long lines, ruled in plummet, catchwords.

BINDING: nineteenth century, quarter blue morocco with blue marbled paper over pasteboards, pink silk bookmark

CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 86v Christine de Pisan, Le livre des faits darmes et de chevalerie, Bks 1 – 3, with capitula.

DECORATION: Half-page pen drawings in black ink: fol. 3r Bk 1, Christine de Pisan at her desk within interior, outside Christine de Pisan and Minerva watching armour-makers in foreground, troop of cavalry in background; fol. 37r Bk 2, Embassy of Scipio Africanus to Syphax’s camp in search of a lost horse; fol. 66v Bk 3, Christine de Pisan’s dream in which Honoré Bonnor (‘un pesant ancien sage auctorise juge’) appears to her.

ORNAMENTATION: Red penwork initials [6 ll.] for books; red penwork initials [2 – 4 ll.] for chapters; capitals highlighted in red.
title:	other

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois (1784 – 1855); Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878), Barrois collection, no. 378; Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840 – 1913); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 – 14 June 1901, lot 115; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849 – 1919); his gift, 1904.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books
collection:	Charles Fairfax Murray

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/170645

PEOPLE
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Murray, Charles Fairfax
Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840 – 1913)
Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878)
Barrois, Jean-Baptiste Joseph




TECHNIQUES
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penwork
TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1470 - 1480
creation date earliest:	1470
creation date latest:	1480
culture:	15th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Pisan, Christine de
maker: Vérard, Antoine


CITATIONS
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Per un edizione critica dell’ “Epistre Othea” di Christine de Pizan
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)
A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands
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