IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170709 accession number: MS McClean 57 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i parchment flyleaf + 96 fols. + i parchment flyleaf, 538 x 365 – 378 (408 – 416 x 235 – 243) mm, 10 long lines ruled in crayon, 10 four-line musical staves ruled in black ink, leaves lost before fol. 1 and between fols. 37 – 38. BINDING: sixteenth century, brown leather over partially bevelled wooden boards, sewn on 7 double supports, blind-tooled central panel of foliate and geometric designs, metal shoes and heels at top and bottom of upper and lower covers, traces of two straps , cream endbands; repaired and rebacked CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 2r End of Temporal with the end of the texts for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity and those for the 23rd Sunday; fols. 2v – 72r Sanctoral (from St Stephen, 26 Dec., to St Thomas Apostle, 21 Dec.); fols 72r – 75v Texts for Votive Masses; ff. 76r – 78r Texts for Masses for the dead; fols. 78v –87v Offices for the main feasts of the Temporal and Sanctoral; fols. 87v – 90v Hymns for major feasts; fols. 91r – 96r Texts for Guardian Angel, Transfiguration, Name of Jesus and other feasts (addition). DECORATION: Fourteen historiated initials [6 ll.] formed of blue, pink or brushed gold branch work and acanthus, with three-sided strewn-flower borders, some compartmentalized and some with extensive acanthus motifs, for major feasts: fol. 2v Sanctoral, [E, 6 ll.] Martyrdom of St Stephen; fol. 4r [I, 6 ll.] St John the Evangelist blessing chalice with serpent; fol. 20r Purification, [S, 4 ll.] Presentation in the Temple; fol. 27v [B, 6 ll.] Annunciation; fol. 40r [D, 6 ll.] St John the Baptist holding book and pointing to lamb; fol. 43r [N, 6 ll.] Saints Peter and Paul; fol. 45r [G, 4 ll.] Visitation; fol. 46v [G, 6 l.] St Mary Magdalene; fol. 48r [G, 6 ll.] St Anne with the Virgin and Child; fol. 53r [C, 6 ll.] St Laurence; fol. 57r [G, 6 ll.] Assumption of the Virgin; fol. 65v [G, 6 ll.] St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins; fol. 69v [G, 6 ll.] St Catherine, border with inscription VIRGO SANCTA KATHERINA : GRECIE GEMMA ALEXANDRIA : COSTI REGIS ERAT F[ILIA]; fol. 74r [S, 6 ll.] Virgin and Child clothed in the Sun, standing on crescent moon, crowned by angels. ORNAMENTATION: Blue and red parted initials [4 – 6 ll.] on red and violet pen-flourished grounds, central part highlighted in green, for feasts of the Conversion of St Paul (fol. 17r), St George (fol. 29r), St Bernard (fol. 59r), St Michael (fol. 63v), Saints Simon and Jude (fol. 66v); blue, red or brown initials [1 – 2 ll.] with red, violet of brown pen-flourishing respectively, often incorporating grotesques, for lesser text divisions; red and brown penwork initials [2 ll.] for text divisions on fols. 91r – 96v. title: gradual NOTES ----- type: history note value: purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1894 by Frank McClean (1836 – 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/170709 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Quaritch, Bernard TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1490 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1490 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 15th Century, Late-16th Century, Early EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Splendours of Flanders CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Hand List of the Musical and Latin-liturgical MSS. Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. The Splendours of Flanders A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. 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