IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118820 accession number: MS McClean 8 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 8 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf + 188 fols. + i paper flyleaf, 513 x 325 mm (333-344 x 199-208 mm), two columns, 32 lines, text written above top line, ruled in plummet and hard point, pricking in upper, lower and outer margins on most leaves, numerical quire marks, running headers BINDING: eighteenth century, paper with leather spine and trim over pasteboards, paper label with ‘34’ in brown ink on spine, faint red and dark-blue stripes on yellow ground on edges. CONTENTS: fols. 1r-188v Bible, Ezechiel 13:7 - Lamentations 5:18, with prologues. DECORATION: Historiated initial with open frame in yellow with dark red, on dark purple, turquoise and green ground: fol. 93v Prologue to Isaiah, [N, 14 ll.] Isaiah standing holding scroll, accompanied by several lines of text written in coloured display capitals ORNAMENTATION: Two open frame initials in yellow with red, stylised foliage, geometric patterns and occasional beasts, birds, fish and mask heads in red-brown, brown and green penwork, blank parchment patterns, on red-brown, green and blue framing grounds: fol. 71r Abd [U, 11 ll.]; fol. 71v Jonah [E, 7 ll.]. Nine red, blue and green initials [9–12 ll.] with geometric and stylised floral patterns on blank parchment with occasional minor red penwork decoration for other books and prologues (fols. 37r, 38r, 57r, 57v, 63v, 78r, 80r, 137r, 137v); red, blue, green and turquoise initials [1–4 ll.], some with red, blue and green dots and stripes, all with blank lines forming patterns within main body of letter, for most chapters; red, blue and green penwork initials [2 ll.] with contrasting red, blue and green decoration for incipits of books and first words of prologues and books; red, blue and green penwork initials [1–3 ll.] with red decoration for lists of chapters in books (e.g. Dan 3:51 - 3:90, Hab 3:1-3:19, fol. 79r, and sections of Lam); rubricated incipits and explicits for prologues and important sections in books; red and blue one-line penwork initials; running headers in red (except on fols. 56v-94v); sketch of a tonsured head within initial (fol. 185r); quire marks decorated with brown (and occasionally red) penwork fleur-des-lys, hearts and bull's-eye motifs; red chapter numbers in margins (not throughout) and end of list of chapters. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cistercian Abbey of Morimondo in Lombardy, the manuscript can be identified almost certainly with one part of a five-volume Bible listed in the library inventory of before c.1174-1175 (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, Houghton Library, fMS Typ 223; Cambridge, Mass. 1988, 11-13, no. 1); probably acquired by Frank McClean (1837-1904) in 1892 from Ulrico Hoepli in Milan, the source of the other Morimondo manuscripts in his collection (MSS McClean 29, 58, 113, 116, 117; Ferrari 1993, 299); his bequest, 1904. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Frank McClean STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118820 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Hoepli, Ulrico Harvard University Houghton Library Cistercian Abbey of Morimondo TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1160 - 1175 creation date earliest: 1160 creation date latest: 1175 culture: 12th Century, third quarter# EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- Gli inizi dello scriptorium di Morimondo Iter Liturgicum Italicum Miniature a Brera, 1100-1422: Manoscritti della Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense e da collezioni private. Biblioteche e Scrittoi Benedettini nella storia culturale della diocesi Ambrosiana: Appunti ed Episodi Dopo Bernardo: biblioteche e "scriptoria" cistercensi dell'Italia settentrionale nel XII secolo A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Textes et manuscrits cisterciens dans des bibliothèques des Etats-Unis A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Milano e la Lombardia in età comunale --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_208_20_2871_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 504 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_208_20_2871_29.jpg height: 774 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_208_20_2871_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 504 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_208_20_2871_29.jpg height: 387 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_208_20_2893v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 506 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_208_20_2893v_29.jpg height: 771 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_208_20_2893v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 506 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_208_20_2893v_29.jpg height: 385 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/109/large_MS_McClean_8_78r_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/724/109/mid_MS_McClean_8_78r_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/724/109/MS_McClean_8_78r_mas.jpg height: 6496 pixels width: 4872 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/109/preview_MS_McClean_8_78r_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/109/MS_McClean_8_78r_mas.ptif height: 6496 pixels width: 4872 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/108/large_MS_McClean_8_71r_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/724/108/mid_MS_McClean_8_71r_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/724/108/MS_McClean_8_71r_mas.jpg height: 6496 pixels width: 4872 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/108/preview_MS_McClean_8_71r_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/108/MS_McClean_8_71r_mas.ptif height: 6496 pixels width: 4872 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/110/large_MS_McClean_8_93v_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/724/110/mid_MS_McClean_8_93v_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/724/110/MS_McClean_8_93v_mas.jpg height: 6496 pixels width: 4872 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/110/preview_MS_McClean_8_93v_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/110/MS_McClean_8_93v_mas.ptif height: 6496 pixels width: 4872 pixels