IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176661 accession number: MS 255 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i parchment flyleaf + 89 fols. + i parchment flyleaf, 170 x 120 mm (105 x 65 mm), 22 long lines, ruled in crayon and plummet, catchwords, leaf signatures BINDING: fifteenth century, brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on three supports, gold-tooled and blind-stamped with interlaced knots and roundels, small metal bosses at the corners of both covers. CONTENTS: fols. 1r-31v Cicero, De senectute fols. 32r-47v Cicero, Paradoxa fols. 48r-62v De consolatu petendo fols. 63r-81r Cicero, De amicitia fols. 81v-84r Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem fols. 84r-89v Pseudo-Cicero, Invectiva in Crispum Sallustium ORNAMENTATION: Four white vinescroll initials [9 ll.] in gold edged in black and yellow on shaped grounds of dark red, blue and green for the beginning of texts (fols. 1r, 32r, 48r, 63r), the initial on fol. 1r accompanied in the lower margin by a shield of arms, azure three lions’ heads or below a fess or and in chief argent a rose gules with the letters A.S. (probably a later addition), encircled by wingless dragon with a gold cross on its back; blue, gold, and red initials [1-2 ll.] for lesser divisions and the beginning of the Invectiva in Ciceronem (fols. 81v and 84r); rubrics in multi-coloured epigraphic capitals in the sequence gold, blue, red, green and purple on alternate lines; smaller coloured epigraphic capitals for the opening lines of each work, each of the paradoxa, and the names of the speakers in De amicitia. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), his MS 4175, from Stewart, a London bookseller, in 1830; Sotheby’s, 5 June, 1899, lot 379; purchased for the Museum from Messrs Leighton in 1899. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176661 PEOPLE ------------------- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1475 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1475 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Cicero maker: Sallust maker: Scribe of the Albi Strabo CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum 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 Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450 - 1550 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20255_20_281r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 546 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/mid_MS_20255_20_281r_29.jpg height: 696 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20255_20_281r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 546 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/preview_MS_20255_20_281r_29.jpg height: 348 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20255_20_2832r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 542 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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