IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176517 accession number: MS 2-1974 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 8 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii paper flyleaves + 27 fols. + iii paper flyleaves, 260 x 160 mm (165 x 90 mm), 32 long lines, ruled in crayon, catchwords, leaf signatures. BINDING: Twentieth-century, green morocco with gold tooling and lettering on spine, VITA DE OCTAVIANO AUGUSTO. MS, and AUG. VITA written on fore-edge. CONTENTS: fols. 1r-27v Suetonius, Vitae duodecim Caesarum, Bk II, Life of Augustus. ORNAMENTATION: One white vine-scroll initial fol. 1r [G, 5 ll.] in gold on dark red and green ground with white vine-scroll infill and extension, the whole surrounded by blue. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Thomas Thorpe, cat. II (1823), no. 5745 and cat. III (1824), no. 16518; purchased from Thorpe by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his MS 2665; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 June 1896, lot 1182 (unsold) and 5 June 1899, lot 1107; Leighton’s, 40 Brewer St, Golden Square, London (label inside upper cover); purchased from Colbeck, Radford and Co. by Eric G. Millar (1887-1966) in 1931; given by Eric Millar to Dorothy Stevens, 27 April 1938 (inscription on fol. i recto: see Turner 1968-1969, 16); her bequest to J.W. Goodison, 1969; presented by him to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1974. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176517 PEOPLE ------------------- Goodison, J. W. Stevens, Dorothy Millar, Eric Phillipps, Thomas, Sir Thorpe, Thomas TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1460 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1460 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Suetonius CITATIONS -------- Gilding the Lilly A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula The Development of Maitre Honore 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/msspb/msspb4/MS_202_1974_20_28f1r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 492 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_202_1974_20_28f1r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 492 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_202_1974_20_28f1r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 492 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/preview_MS_202_1974_20_28f1r_29.jpg height: 386 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/MS_202_1974_20_28f1r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 492 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/MS_202_1974_20_28f1r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 492 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/MS_202_1974_20_28f1r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 492 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb15/preview_MS_202_1974_20_28f1r_29.jpg height: 396 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/370/large_MS_2_1974_f1r_mas.jpg height: 1378 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/370/mid_MS_2_1974_f1r_mas.jpg height: 673 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/370/MS_2_1974_f1r_mas.jpg height: 6101 pixels width: 4535 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/370/preview_MS_2_1974_f1r_mas.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/370/MS_2_1974_f1r_mas.ptif height: 6101 pixels width: 4535 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/895/large_MS_2_1974_f1r_dc1.jpg height: 1557 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/895/mid_MS_2_1974_f1r_dc1.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/895/MS_2_1974_f1r_dc1.jpg height: 5631 pixels width: 3704 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/895/preview_MS_2_1974_f1r_dc1.jpg height: 380 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/895/MS_2_1974_f1r_dc1.ptif height: 5631 pixels width: 3704 pixels