IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170706 accession number: MS McClean 41 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii modern paper flyleaves + iv seventeenth-century paper flyleaves (foliated 1 – 4) + vii fifteenth-century parchment flyleaves (foliated i – vii) + 154 fols. + iv sixteenth-century paper flyleaves + ii modern paper flyleaves, 192 x 140 (130 x 95) mm, 18 long lines, ruled in plummet, leaves lost after fol. 106v. BINDING: nineteenth century, blind-stamped brown leather over pasteboard. CONTENTS: paper fols. 2r – 4v at front Office of the Guardian Angel continued on four paper flyleaves at end (addition, seventeenth century); parchment fols. i recto – 1v Hymns and ferial office (addition, fifteenth century); fols. 1v – 137v Psalter, Gallican; fols. 138r – 151r Canticles and Quicumque vult; fols. 151r – 153v Litany with collects; fol. 153v Prayer for recovery of Holy Land written over erased collects (addition). DECORATION: Eleven historiated initials with foliate extensions on gold grounds: fol. 1v Psalm 1, [B, full-page] Coronation of the Virgin (above), Burial and Assumption of the Virgin (below), St Francis displaying stigmata on left, St Elizabeth with book on right; fol. 2r Psalm 2, [Q, 4 ll.] David playing harp and holding ring, initial supported by female hybrid emerging from border foliate bar, gold cock perched on rod extending upwards in outer margin; fol. 23r Psalm 26, [D, 8 ll.] Christ holding scroll inscribed respicite. fides uestra saluos uos fecit and addressing two blind men; fol. 36r Psalm 38, [D, 8 ll.] Flight into Egypt; fol. 48r Psalm 51, [Q, 8 ll.] Massacre of the Innocents; fol. 48v Psalm 52, [D, 7 ll.] Second Temptation of Christ, devil holding scroll inscribed Si filius dei mitte te deorsum, Christ holding scroll inscribed Non temptabis dominum deum tuum; fol. 61v Psalm 68, [S, 8 ll.] St Peter walking on the water, Christ holding scroll inscribed confidite ego sum nolite timere, St John holding scroll inscribed dominus est; fol. 77r Psalm 80 [E, 7 ll.] Raising of Lazarus, Christ holding scroll inscribed Lazare ueni foras; fol. 92r Psalm 97, [C, 8 ll.] Two clerks singing from book on lectern; fol. 94r Psalm 101, [D, 7 ll.] Agony in the Garden; fol. 138r Canticle of Isaiah, [C, 8 ll.] Doubting Thomas touching Christ’s side and holding scroll inscribed dominus meus et deus meus. ORNAMENTATION: Alternate red and blue penwork initials [2 ll.] with pen-flourished infill and extensions including occasional birds or dragons for ordinary Psalms, Litany, and Canticles; alternate red and blue onle-line penwork initials; red and blue pen-flourished line-fillers. title: psalter NOTES ----- type: history note value: Marie Becket, sub-prioress of the Carmelite convent in Liège (seventeenth-century ownership inscription, paper fol. 1r at front); sister Marie Linerloz, 1636 (ownership inscriptions beneath coat of arms on paper fol. 1v at front and on fol. 56v); acquired by Walter Sneyd, Keele Hall, Staffordshire, in 1851 (bookplate inside upper cover, mentioned in letter to Thomas Philipps dated 8 Dec. 1851; Munby 1972, 113); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 660; 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/170706 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Sneyd, Walter Linerloz, Sister Marie Becket, Marie TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1255 - 1265 creation date earliest: 1255 creation date latest: 1265 culture: 13th Century, third quarter 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 title: In Beeld Geprezen: Miniaturen uit Maaslandse Devotieboeken, 1250-1350 CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Die Psalterillustration im 13 Jahrundert. Studien zur Geschichte der Buchmalerei in England, Frankreich und den Niederlanden 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 Conoisseurs and Medieval Miniatures Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c.1250- c.1350) In Beeld Geprezen: Miniaturen uit Maaslandse Devotieboeken, 1250 - 1350 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 ---