IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169703 accession number: MS 27 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 5 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern paper flyleaves + 82 fols. + ii modern paper flyleaves, 214 x 162 (165 x 97) mm, 19 – 20 long lines, ruled in hard point, quire marks. BINDING: 19th century, before 1818, black leather over pasteboards, rectangular frame with floral motifs, blue and white endbands, spine with signature ‘Rel. P. Simier’; this is René Simier (1772-1843), one of the most important binders of the Restoration in France, who became binder to Louis XVIII in 1818 and began to sign his binding ‘Simier R. du Roi’ (Travier 2003). CONTENTS: fols. 1v – 66v Blessings for the Temporal and Sanctoral combined, beginning with Christmas Eve and ending with the Advent season; fols. 66v – 73r Blessings for the Common of the Saints; fols. 73v – 75r Bessings for the dedication of a church; fols. 75r – 82r Blessings for bishops, a synod, kings, fasts and various special occasions. DECORATION: fol. 1r Sketch made with a stylus: decorative page with interlaced border, in lower half bishop reading a benediction from a book held for him by a cleric who is accompanied by two other figures. ORNAMENTATION: Gold and silver initials [9 – 11 ll.] formed of interlaced bands outlined in red, some with foliate motifs, others monogrammed (e.g. IN Nomine, fol. 1v; BENEdictione in cotidianis diebus, fol. 13v; D(omin)NE, fol. 50r) at major text divisions; gold and silver initials [3 – 5 ll.] outlined in red with interlaced bands, foliate motifs, and occasional small dragon heads (e.g. fol. 6v, 29v) for benedictions; display script in red uncials [1 – 2 ll.] filled in with plain dabs or strokes of fluid gold for the headings of the major benedictions; display script in red or black with gold for the lesser headings and Amens. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: made for a bishop of Augsburg; Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767 – 1852), tenth Duke of Hamilton, his MS 73 in the catalogue of the Hamilton collection privately printed by Sotheby’s in 1882; purchased by the Prussian State in 1882; re-sold by the Prussian State via Trübner, Strasbourg, with Sotheby’s, London, 23 May 1889, lot 5, and purchased for the Museum. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169703 PEOPLE ------------------- Prussian State Hamilton, Alexander Douglas, 10th Duke of Hamilton Bishop of Augsburg TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 925 - 975 creation date earliest: 925 creation date latest: 975 culture: 10th Century, Mid# EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- 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. CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge (Manuscrits liturgiques du Fitzwilliam Museum) Un recueil gallican inédit de "Benedictiones Episcopales" en usage à Freising Die Buchmalerei in St Gallen vom neunten bis zum elften Jahrhundert. Die Buchmalerei in St gallen vom neunten bis zum elften Jahrhundert Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Hand List of the Musical and Latin-liturgical MSS. Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. Das Benedictionale Frisingense Vetus Le Bénédictionnaire gallican du VIIIe siècle 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 Codices liturgici latini antiquiores Corpus Benedictionum Pontificalium Das Benedictionale Salomons III. für Adalbero von Augsburg (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 27) Buchkunst und Königtum im ottonischen und frühsalischen Reich Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters St. Galler Kunst im frühen und hohen Mittelalter The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. 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