IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170718 accession number: MS McClean 96 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern parchment flyleaves + i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 167 fols. + iii modern parchment flyleaves, 169 x 122 (95 x 62) mm, 19 long lines, ruled in brown ink. BINDING: nineteenth century, blue velvet over pasteboard, edges gilt CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 12v Calendar; fols. 14r – 47v Hours of the Virgin; fols. 48r – 68r Hours of the Eternal Wisdom; fols. 68r – 75r Prayers to the Sacrament and Christ; fols. 76r – 93v Hours of the Cross; fols. 95r – 116v Hours of the Holy Spirit; fols. 117r – 125r Penitential Psalms; fols. 125r – 134r Litany; fols. 135r – 166v Office of the Dead. DECORATION: Six historiated initials in blue with white acanthus motifs on gold grounds with one-sided gold, blue and pink bar borders, and three-sided acanthus and floral borders: fol. 14r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, [H, 9 ll.] Virgin and Child, angels in border; fol. 48r Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, [M, 10 ll.] Christ blessing and holding orb; fol. 76r Hours of the Cross, [W, 9 ll.] Crucifixion with Virgin and St John, goats and grapes on gold rods in border; fol. 95r Hours of the Holy Spirit, [H, 9 ll.] Pentecost; fol. 117r Penitential Psalms, [H, 9 ll.] Last Judgement, Christ seated on rainbow, orb at feet, and displaying wounds, peacock in border; fol. 135r Office of the Dead, [M, 9 ll.] Souls praying in Purgatory, bear in border. ORNAMENTATION: Gold initials [2 – 5 ll.] on red and blue white-patterned grounds with one-sided gold bar-borders with gold-leaf spraywork extensions; alternate gold and blue initials [1 – 2 ll.] with violet and red pen-flourished infill and extensions; capitals highlighted in red. title: book of hours NOTES ----- type: history note value: still in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century when prayers in Dutch and a short text on ‘suffering’ in Dutch verse were added on the contemporary flyleaf at front and on fol. 166v respectively; James Thomson Gibson Craig (his bookplate with motto Deo et Regi inside upper cover); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 23 March 1888, lot 691; 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/170718 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Craig, James Thomson Gibson TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1475 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1475 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Grote, Geert CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f076r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 527 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/mid_MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f076r_29.jpg height: 721 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f076r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 527 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/preview_MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f076r_29.jpg height: 361 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f095r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 528 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/mid_MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f095r_29.jpg height: 720 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f095r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 528 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/preview_MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f095r_29.jpg height: 360 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f117r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 516 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/mid_MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f117r_29.jpg height: 736 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f117r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 516 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/preview_MS_20McClean_2096_20_28f117r_29.jpg height: 368 pixels width: 250 pixels