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Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii parchment flyleaves + 170 fols. + ii parchment flyleaves (parts of a fifteenth-century will), 129 x 95 mm (89 x 54 mm), 16 long lines, ruled in brown ink, catchwords, leaves lost between fols. 62–63 and 109–110

BINDING: Eighteenth century, black tooled leather over earlier wooden boards, traces of two fastening devices on fore-edge, edges stained blue, repaired by Robert Proctor at the Fitzwilliam Museum in the 1990s

CONTENTS:
fols. 1r–12v Calendar
fols. 13r–85v Hours of the Virgin
fols. 86r–107r Penitential Psalms and Litany
fols. 107v–109v Antiphon Introibo ad altare dei, followed by Ps. 42, Iudica me Deus, and other prayers recited at the foot of the altar during the Mass of the Cathechumens (later addition)
fols. 110r–156v Office of the Dead
fols. 157r–168r Short Hours of the Cross
fols. 168r–170r Grace before and after meal (later addition)

ORNAMENTATION: Blue or pink initials [6–8 ll.] with white floral pattern on gold grounds, with floral infill and stylized foliate extensions forming two- or three-sided borders; alternate red and blue penwork initials [1–2 ll.] with violet or red pen-flourished infill and extensions; geometric and foliate penwork linefillers.

Notes

History note: Purchased by Frank McClean (1836-1904) in Rome (James 1912, 147); his bequest, 1904.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank

Dating

15th Century, third quarter
Circa 1450 CE - Circa 1475 CE

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Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Pigment
Ink
Gold

Components of the work

Support composed of parchment

Techniques used in production

Penwork
Illumination

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: gracia plena dominus
  • Location: Fol. 14r
  • Type: Secundo folio

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Identification numbers

Accession number: MS McClean 73
Primary reference Number: 118780
Project ID: 770

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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