IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207633 accession number: MS Charles Fairfax Murray 8 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 14 January 2016 updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern parchment flyleaf + 95 fols. + i modern parchment flyleaf, 195 x 140 mm (140 x 95 mm), 25-26 long lines, ruled in hard point and plummet, quire marks, leaves lost after fols. 17 and 22 BINDING: nineteenth century, blind-tooled brown morocco over pasteboards SECUNDO FOLIO: agnoscitur. Possibilitas SCRIPT: Caroline minuscule CONTENTS fols. 1v-95v Origen, Commentarium in Cantica canticorum in the Latin translation of Rufinus of Aquileia (ed. Baehrens 1923, 61-198) ORNAMENTATION Initial [E, 6 ll.] drawn in red ink, with coiled foliate infill on green ground, followed by opening words in red capitals with green wash, for Commentarium in Cantica canticorum, Bk I (fol. 1v); red initials [3-4 ll.] with blue and green infill for Bks II-III (fols. 30v, 66r); quire marks surrounded by red and brown ink dots (fourteenth-century addition). title: manuscript NOTES ----- type: history note value: At the Franciscan convent in Assisi by 1381 when it was listed in the catalogue of Fra Giovanni Ioli (Cenci 1981, I, 32, 222, no. 328); still there in the seventeenth century and up until the mid-nineteenth century, as it was recorded in the inventories of 1600, 1665 and 1844-1845 (Cenci 1981, II, 495, 514, 597); John Henry Middleton (1846-1896), note in his hand describing the manuscript (fol. i verso); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 26-27 April 1897, lot 338; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his gift, 1904. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Charles Fairfax Murray creditline: Given by Charles Fairfax Murray STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207633 TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- egg tempura TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1050 - 1150 creation date earliest: 1050 creation date latest: 1150 culture: 11th-12th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Origen DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 195 dimension: Width units: mm value: 140 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges - Part Three. France. Vol. 1: France, c.1000-c.1250 A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Bibliotheca manuscripta ad Sacrum conventum Assisiensem: Vol. 1 Bibliotheca manuscripta ad Sacrum conventum Assisiensem: Vol. 2 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/ms_20cfm_208_f1v_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/mid_ms_20cfm_208_f1v_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 671 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/ms_20cfm_208_f1v_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/preview_ms_20cfm_208_f1v_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/ms_20cfm_208_f30_31r_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 700 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/mid_ms_20cfm_208_f30_31r_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 342 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/ms_20cfm_208_f30_31r_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 700 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb17/preview_ms_20cfm_208_f30_31r_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 171 pixels width: 250 pixels