IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 209267 accession number: MS 330.iii DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 15 July 2016 updated: Monday 5 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, miniature 196 x 123 mm, inlaid in a modern parchment leaf 250 x 170 mm DECORATION: Full-page miniature on gold ground ornamented with incised lines and punched dots, with partial blue inner frame patterned in white and black, and gold outer frame outlined in black: Last Judgement with Christ enthroned in mandorla at centre, trampling on a lion and a dragon, with angel above him holding scrolls inscribed VENITE BENEDICTI and [DISCED]ITE MALEDICTI, pair of angels below sounding trumpets to raise the dead, and Mouth of Hell at the bottom. Subsidiary scenes in semi-circular compartments and mandorlas (clockwise from top to bottom): Angels with instruments of the Passion, including cross inscribed VULNERA V DEI PIA CRUX ET PASSIO XPI and SUNT MEDICINA MEI VULNERA V DEI; Apostles, including St Paul seated with sword; St Michael rescuing from amongst the damned the illuminator William de Brailes who is identified by the inscription on his scroll W DE BRAIL’ ME FECIT; St Peter, with key, descending from heaven to hail the Blessed; Apostles with the Virgin kneeling in supplication; title: cutting (manuscript) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Provenance note: Joseph-Baptiste Barrois (1784-1855); Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10-14 June 1901, Barrois collection, lot 404; purchased by Quaritch; George C. Thomas of Philadelphia; Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952); purchased from him by Sydney Cockerell in 1920 for Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7 June 1932, lot 11; withdrawn before the sale at Sydney Cockerell’s initiative and purchased for the Museum by the National Art Collections Fund in 1932. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books creditline: Purchased from Alfred Chester Beatty, through the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/209267 PEOPLE ------------------- Barrois, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878) Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840 – 1913) Beatty, Chester Thomas, George C. Rosenbach, A. S. W., Dr TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1230 - 1250 creation date earliest: 1230 creation date latest: 1250 culture: 13th Century, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Brailes, William de maker: Brailes, William de EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: British Primitive Paintings from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, with some related Illuminated Manuscripts, Figure Embroidery, and Alabaster Carvings title: Exhibition of English Medieval Art title: Exhibition of British Art title: British Mediaeval Art title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion title: Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagent England 1200-1400 title: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West title: Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts CITATIONS -------- British Primitive Paintings from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, with some related Illuminated Manuscripts, Figure Embroidery, and Alabaster Carvings Exhibition Of English Medieval Art Exhibition of British Art Catalogue of an Exhibition of British Medieval Art Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400 The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts Brailes, William de Oxford History of English Art: 1216-1307 The Work of W. de Brailes, an English Illuminator of the Thirteenth Century Cockerell as Museum Director The De Brailes Hours: Shaping the Book of Hours in Thirteenth-Century Oxford William de Brailes Dictionary of Art Brailes, William de The Meaning of Leaf 5 of Fitzwilliam 330 Biblical Imagery in Medieval England, 700-1550 English Illuminators c.1190-1450: A Survey from Documentary Sources English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century The Library of A. Chester Beatty: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts, 4 vols. Early Gothic Manuscripts 1190-1285: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, vol. 4 Old Testament Illustration in Thirteenth-Century England The Golden Munich Psalter Clm 835 Bavarian State Library Munich Leaves from a Psalter by William de Brailes The Oxford Bible Pictures MS W. 106 I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum St Cockerellius: The Director-Collector William de Brailes Painting in Britain in the Middle Ages A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/75/large_MS_330_iii_2_201507_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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