IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170689 accession number: MS McClean 6 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 16 October 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern paper flyleaves + 154 fols. + iii modern paper flyleaves, 319 x 223 (239 – 251 x 165 – 174) mm, 37 – 38 long lines, ruled in hard point, written above top line (except fols. 1 – 6 and 153 – 154, 61 – 63 long lines, ruled in ink, written below top line), running headers, quire marks, leaf lost between fols. 26 – 27. BINDING: c.1900, brown leather over pasteboard, by Zaehnsdorf CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 6v St Jerome, Prologue, Desiderii mei and Gn i – xxiv:32 (fourteenth-century replacement of original text); fols. 7r – 152v Bible, Gen xxiv:32 – Iudic xxi:8; fols. 153r – 154r End of Iudic and Ruth (fourteenth-century replacement of original text). DECORATION: Contemporary drawing of dog in black ink in upper margin of fol. 67r; later crayon sketches in lower margins of fols. 58r (king enthroned holding scepter, labelled Hic levi) and 76v (two horses). ORNAMENTATION: Capitals in black ink [3 – 4 ll.]; one-line verse initials coloured in blue and yellow washes; red penwork initials [2 – 6 ll.] and capitals highlighted in red in fourteenth-century additions (fols. 1 – 6, 153). title: bible NOTES ----- type: history note value: Premonstratensian abbey of St Peter at Augia minor, Weissenau, diocese of Konstanz (fourteenth-century inscription: Iste liber est sancti Petri in Augia Minori, fol. 154v); seventeenth-century ex-libris: Minoraugiensis Bibliothecae (fol. 1r); Bonaventura Brem, last abbot of Weissenau (d.1818), armorial bookplate containing mitre and initials B.A.Z.W. (Bonaventura Abt zu Weissenau) inside upper cover (cf. Berlin, SBPK, MS Lat. Qu. 761-765; Fingernagel 1991, I, 99); Thomas Bateman (1821 – 1861) Middleton Hall, by Youlgrave, Derbyshire (armorial bookplate inside upper cover); to his son, William Bateman; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 25 – 31 May 1893, lot 264; purchased by Frank McClean (1837 – 1904); 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/170689 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Bateman, William Bateman, Thomas Brem, Bonaventura Premonstratensian abbey of St Peter at Augia minor TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 890 - 899 creation date earliest: 890 creation date latest: 899 culture: 9th Century, Late# CREATORS -------- maker: Zaehnsdorf CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters Katalog der festlaendischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der Wisigotischen) A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/723/745/large_MS_McClean_6_f68r_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/723/745/mid_MS_McClean_6_f68r_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/723/745/MS_McClean_6_f68r_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/723/745/preview_MS_McClean_6_f68r_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/723/745/MS_McClean_6_f68r_mas.ptif height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels