IDENTIFIERS
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id:	170697
accession number:	MS McClean 25

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 20 June 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 78 fols. + ii paper flyleaves, 244 x 167 (170 x 101) mm, 22 long lines, ruled in crayon, running headers from fol. 54v onwards.

BINDING: eighteenth century, blind-stamped calf over pasteboards.

CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 52r Acts, with prologues; fols. 52v – 78r Seven Epistles, with prologues.

ORNAMENTATION: Red, blue or green initials [5 – 12 ll.] with foliate or zoomorphic infill often on green, blue, red and yellow grounds; alternate red and green initials [1 – 2 ll.].
title:	other

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Henry White (bookplate inside upper cover); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 21 April 1902, lot 2133 (cutting from sale catalogue pasted to first flyleaf at front); Frank McClean (1837 – 1904); his bequest, 1904.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books
collection:	Frank McClean

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/170697

PEOPLE
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McClean, Frank
White, Henry




TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1050 - 1099
creation date earliest:	1050
creation date latest:	1099
culture:	11th Century, second half



CITATIONS
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A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
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
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