IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170710 accession number: MS McClean 64 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii paper flyleaves (foliated i – iii) + 317 fols. + iii paper flyleaves (foliated iv-vi), 89 x 128 (52 x 73) mm, 21 – 22 long lines, ruled in plummet, quire and leaf signatures, illuminated pages interleaved with unfoliated paper leaves. BINDING: nineteenth century, blue velvet over pasteboards, edges gilt and gauffered CONTENTS: fols. 2r – 7v Calendar; fol. 8r Table of zodiac signs ; fols. 8v – 9v Circular diagram of the epacts with explanatory text; fol. 10r-v Table of modus imponendi historias secundum rubricam ordinis nostri; fols. 11r – 105r Temporal fols. 105r – 204v Sanctoral; fols. 204v –235v Common of Saints; fols. 236r – 304v Psalms and Ferial Office; fols. 304v – 313 Litany and added offices. ORNAMENTATION: Ornamental initials [10 – 7 ll.] on gold ground with a pattern of dull gold on burnished gold, segmented frames in blue and green, and occasionally in gold, on coloured grounds, some with gold text block frame, most with three-sided acanthus or branch-work borders decorated with flowers, inhabited by animals, birds of several types, hares, deer and peacocks, decorated with large gold dots, for the main feasts of the Temporal and Sanctoral (e.g. fols. 11r, 22v, 65r, 82r, 89r, 125r, 128v, 160v, 176v, 191v); identical initials [7 – 8 ll.] of the same two types with one- or two-sided acanthus borders with flowers for lesser feast days; identical initials [4 – 5 ll.] for minor offices, sometimes combined with one- or two-sided borders, that on fol. 201r (feast of St Cecilia) including three vases with strawberries, pinks and columbines; alternate red and blue penwork initials [2 ll.] with red and blue pen-flourished infill and extensions; capitals highlighted in red. Embroidery: Bands of red, blue, green and yellow silk embroidered in a double-edged saw pattern horizontally or vertically on borders throughout manuscript (e.g. fols. 12r, 13r, 34r, 59r, 102r). This rare feature of multicoloured silks has a parallel with the coloured silks used for repairing defective parchment in some twelfth-century manuscripts from Weingarten (cf. entry on Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 101, in this catalogue). title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Thomas Willement (1786 – 1871), acquired in 1834 (ownership inscription, fol. i verso); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 22-24 June 1865, lot 458; 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/170710 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Willement, Thomas TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1480 - 1490 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1490 culture: 15th Century, fourth 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: Les dominicaines d'Unterlinden 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. 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 Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters Les dominicaines d'Unterlinden Enluminure et incunable: l'exemplaire alsacien des Soixante-cinq articles de Jourdain de Quedlinbourg A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. 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