IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 209487 accession number: MS 330.iv DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 1 November 2016 updated: Monday 5 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: trimmed miniature including medallions 184 x 167 mm (diameter of circle 161 mm), inlaid in a modern parchment leaf 364 x 290 mm DECORATION: Full-page circular miniature framed in tan and outlined in black on blue and reddish brown ground with concentric circles containing foliate ornament and gold ground ornamented with punched dots: Wheel of Fortune, with crowned female personification of Fortune enthroned at the centre, turning the wheel, which is surrounded by eight semi-circular compartments depicting the story of Theophilus (clockwise from top right): the tonsured clerk Theophilus, holding scroll inscribed INCIPIT YSTORIA THEOPILI, is dismissed from his post; half-naked, seated Theophilus, holding scroll inscribed IN PAUP[ER]TATE DESPERO, lamenting his impoverished state; naked Theophilus makes pact with the devil; Theophilus enthroned, with his fortune restored by the devil, and flanked by demons; repentant Theophilus, holding scroll inscribed MISERE MISERI DIABOLO CAR[TAM] FECI, prays to the Virgin whose scroll reads MARIA AD TEOPHILUM; the Virgin with scroll reading S[AN]CTA MARIA retrieves charter from the devil; Theophilus kneels before the Virgin who gives him the charter; Theophilus’ body lies in tomb while angels transport his soul to heaven. Sixteen subsidiary scenes in two medallions (centre top and bottom), and fourteen semi-circular compartments around the outer edge of the wheel show the Ages of Man (clockwise from bottom left): woman with baby approached by female figure, possibly Fortune, holding scroll inscribed INCIPIT ROTA FORTU[N]E; toddler pushing wheeled cart; youth with bow and quiver; young man holding scroll inscribed [RURSUS AD ASTRA] FEROR; young man with sceptre; bearded man with staff; bearded man holding sceptres; enthroned king with scroll reading GLOR[I]E [E]LATUS; king with broken sceptre and crown toppling from head; man falling to his knees, cloak in disarray; man falling downwards; man falling headlong downwards with scroll inscribed DE[S]CENDO [MIN]ORIFICATUS; half-naked man, wringing his hands as he falls; half-naked man plunges down; man falls on his back; half-naked man lies naked on ground with scroll emerging from his mouth inscribed INFIMUS AXA TENOR. 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/209487 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/690/80/large_MS_330_iv_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/80/mid_MS_330_iv_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/80/MS_330_iv_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/690/80/preview_MS_330_iv_201101_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/992/large_MS_330_iv_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1096 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/992/mid_MS_330_iv_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 535 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/992/MS_330_iv_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 3212 pixels width: 3000 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/992/preview_MS_330_iv_201101_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 268 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/992/MS_330_iv_201101_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 3212 pixels width: 3000 pixels