1592999854000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-176586 1755194564376 1714400113000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-176586 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176586 99f7e4eb-8a78-3b45-b04d-e48d8448f902 9 reference agent-172414 adlib-agent-172414 73d94f64-8c0d-30c1-9764-25b005f3ce1d McClean, Frank reference agent-186215 adlib-agent-186215 42599043-cae2-3d46-adb4-08a722463041 Didot, Ambroise Firmin reference term-110558 adlib-term-110558 ee824bc5-8d70-3060-824d-9ed6f392557b illuminated manuscript reference term-114522 adlib-term-114522 76be19ae-554e-3b73-af2d-112e09263aaf manuscript reference term-120007 adlib-term-120007 00af7c97-d937-3d5c-a1af-d2a83fe2785b Frank McClean reference term-118780 adlib-term-118780 c5f3b968-f763-357a-b740-9f216e114859 parchment Support Manuscripts and Printed Books PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern paper flyleaf + i lifted parchment pastedown + i parchment flyleaf (foliated 1) + 217 fols. (foliated 2-218) + i lifted parchment pastedown + i modern paper flyleaf, 270 x 185-190 mm (185 x 90 mm, 240 x 160 mm on heavily glossed pages), one column of 28 lines, ruled in hard point and plummet, running headers, leaf signatures BINDING: Sixteenth century?, red leather over wooden boards with two metal clasps on leather straps and small metal bosses at the centre and each corner of the upper and lower boards; modern spine repair. CONTENTS: fol. 1r Notes on the name Hercules and on the genre of tragedy fols. 2r-218r Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragedies with argumenta and commentary in the text hand, and further glossing DECORATION: Six scenes taken from the Tragedies, drawn in brown ink over erased ornamental initials: fol. 2r Hercules furens, Hercules shoots arrow at Megaera and child; fol. 26v Thyestes, Tantalus reaches for fruit; fol. 47r Thebais, Oedipus; fol. 60r Phedra, Phaedra stabs herself; fol. 82v argumentum to Oedipus, Jocasta; fol. 82v Oedipus, Jocasta with sword; fol. 102r Troades, Aegisthus; ink drawings of heads and a king (?) on parchment flyleaves. ORNAMENTATION: Ten ornamental initials [8-10 ll.] (fols. 2r, 26v, 47v, 60r, 82v, 102r, 124v, 144r, 163r, 181r), at the start of each play and eight ornamental initials [4-8 ll.] (fols. 2r, 26r, 47r, 59v, 82v, 102r, 124r, 143v) for argumenta to the plays, both extending into short acanthus borders painted with thin washes of either magenta, purple and orange, or green, brown and orange, through which under-drawing is still clearly visible; alternate red or blue initials [2 ll.], not executed after fol. 200r, for lesser divisions in the text, guide letters visible; one-line red or blue initials for lesser divisions in the gloss; alternate red and blue paraph marks signalling the change of speaker in text and gloss; marginalia, closely associated with a contemporary glossing hand, notably on fol. 4v (a protruding tongue acts as a pointer to the text), fol. 11r (human and boar heads), fol. 13r (head of Hercules wearing lion-skin), fol. 58r (dancer). MS McClean 161 1 accession number MS McClean 161 176586 priref 176586 Cambridge Illuminated project ID 474 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176586 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176586 fol. 3r Iraque nostra fruitur. In laudes suas secundo folio reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-172414 adlib-agent-172414 73d94f64-8c0d-30c1-9764-25b005f3ce1d McClean, Frank 1904 1904 1904 bequeathed 1350 1350 CE 1350 circa 1350 1399 with fifteenth-century additions 1 1399 CE 1399 circa 1399 author reference agent-186216 adlib-agent-186216 22331555-6329-3ece-b648-026c7f7c3b7a Seneca reference term-129794 adlib-term-129794 296e6adb-d66e-3506-b992-d883f7284108 14th Century, second half reference term-106629 adlib-term-106629 e1fb1a11-426b-3006-bf59-4126d48e87ca Italy reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold reference media-199413 adlib-media-199413 bc25bfcc-81eb-3962-8716-04773fd2e4e0 jpeg msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20161_20_282r_29.jpg 1 height pixels 780 width pixels 541 1616275037233 1 image jpeg msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_20161_20_282r_29.jpg 1 height pixels 721 width pixels 500 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in a fourteenth-century hand, T[]cor Johanni, followed by note of purchase (fol. 1v); motto TE FORTUNA SEQUOR added in a fifteenth-century hand (fol. 1v); note in Hebrew (upper margin, fol. 218r); in the hands of a Spanish reader in the sixteenth century (fol. 5v, marginal note in Spanish); Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876), his 1850 bookplate on verso of upper pastedown; his sale, Paris, June 1878, lot 23; Frank McClean (1837-1904); his bequest, 1904. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference number literal name Cambridge Illuminated Cambridge Illuminated 310 reference publication-3609 adlib-publication-3609 211b88dc-f7bf-3fbc-adcc-b04033465dea A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum 1169 reference publication-200002653 adlib-publication-200002653 80e82d03-5a03-3681-8ddd-4b93a0e8a044 The Manuscripts of Seneca's Tragedies: A Handlist reference publication-7879 adlib-publication-7879 5320a5c5-b056-32fa-a5f8-916332a53e8c A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. 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