IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170708 accession number: MS McClean 43 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii parchment flyleaves (foliated i – ii) + 190 fols. + i parchment flyleaf, 165 x 115 (95 x 65) mm, 21 long lines, ruled in plummet, leaves lost before fol. 1 and after fols. 119, 155, 188. BINDING: seventeenth century, parchment over pasteoard, sewn on five supports, traces of two fastening devices on foredge; repaired and rebound by Robert Proctor, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1989 CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 113r Psalter, Gallican (begins imperfectly at Psalm 13) fols. 113v – 119v Canticles (end imperfectly in the second Canticle of Moses, Audite celi); fols. 120r – 124r Litany with collects; fols. 124r – 160v Hours of the Virgin; fols. 161r – 182r Office of the Dead; fols. 182v – 188v Ave porta paradysi (ends imperfectly); fols. 189r – 190v Prayers to the Trinity and the Cross, with fragment from Commendation of the Soul in French (additions). DECORATION: 18 historiated initials in white-patterned blue and pink on gold grounds: fol. 12r Psalm 26, [D, 10X ll.] Christ touching man’s eyes; fol. 24r Psalm 38, [D, 11 ll.] David pointing at mouth; fol. 34v Psalm 51, [Q, 11 ll.] Saul’s suicide; fol. 35r Psalm 52, [D, 11 ll.] Fool holding club and eating cake; fol. 46v Psalm 68, [S, 11 ll.] David in water praying to Christ above; fol. 60v Psalm 80, [E, 11 ll.] David playing bells; fol. 73r Psalm 97, [C, 11 ll.] Three clerics singing at lectern; fol. 85v Psalm 109, [D, 11 ll.] Trinity with Father and Son seated on separate thrones, dove descending between them; fol. 113v Canticle of Isaiah, [C, 11 ll.] Priest at altar; fol. 124r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, [D, 11 ll.] Virgin and Child enthroned; fol. 135v Lauds, [D, 11 ll.] Betrayal; fol. 142r Prime, [D, 10 ll.] Christ before Pilate; fol. 148r Terce, [D, 11 ll.] Flagellation; fol. 150v Sext, [D, 11 ll.] Crucifixion, with thieves, Sun and Moon; fol. 153v None, [D, 11 ll.] Crucifixion, with man holding bucket of vinegar and Longinus piercing Christ’s side and pointing to eye; fol. 158v Compline, [D, 11 ll.] Entombment; fol. 161r Office of the Dead, [P, 11 ll.] Souls in Abraham’s bosom; fol. 182v Ave porta paradysi, [A, 12 ll.] Angel with palm branch announcing Death of the Virgin. ORNAMENTATION: Gold initials [4 ll.] on blue and pink white-patterned grounds for ordinary Psalms, Canticles, and minor text divisions; alternate red and blue penwork one-line initials with occasional pen-flourished infill and extensions. title: psalter NOTES ----- type: history note value: Marie Dupont, Lyon, late sixteenth or early seventeenth century (ownership inscription, fol. i recto at front); 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 1311; 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/170708 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Bateman, William Bateman, Thomas Dupont, Marie TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1275 - 1280 creation date earliest: 1275 creation date latest: 1280 culture: 13th Century, Late# 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 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 ---