IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170722 accession number: MS McClean 101 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 30 October 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTON: Parchment, i contemporary flyleaf (lifted pastedown) + 179 fols. + i contemporary flyleaf (lifted pastedown), 385 x 260 (290 x 176) mm, two columns, 41 long lines, ruled in plummet, leaf lost after fol. 2. BINDING: fifteenth century, blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on four supports, braided parchment endbands, two catchplates on lower cover, traces of two fixing plates for straps or clasps on upper cover, traces of 5 round bosses on each cover, leather tabs; repaired and rebacked. CONTENTS: fol. 1r List of contents; fols. 1r – 2v De Inventione Sanguinis Domini; fols. 3r – 169r Lives of Sts Gregory, Ambrose, Sigismund, Walburga, Athanasius, Boniface martyr, Victor, Gangolf, Pudens and Pudentiana, Boniface eps., Barnabas, Alban, Gallicanus, Seven Sleepers, Goar, Pantaleon, Christopher, Pelagius, Egidius, Jerome, 11,000 Virgins, Pirmin, Eucharius, Valerius and Maternus ; fols. 169r – 178v Summa de divinis officiis; fol. 179v De translatione sanguinis Christi. DECORATION: Two initials formed of saints’ figures: fol. 101v Life of St Athanasius, [I, 8 ll.] St Athanasius; fol. 157r Life of St Pirmin, [I, 12 ll.] St Pirmin. ORNAMENTATION: Red, yellow and green initials [5 – 16 ll.] formed of foliate, zoomorphic and geometric motifs, filled with white foliage scrollwork on blue, green, grey and red grounds, and often extending into hybrid monsters, for Saints’s Lives; initial on fol. 94v (Passion of St Sigismund) contains four lions, one clothed holding cup, another taking pill; red initials [1 – 7 ll.] with foliate ornament. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Benedictine abbey of St Martin in Weingarten (partially erased thirteenth-century ex-libris on fol. 179r); year 1628 recorded in partially erased inscription on fol. 1r; still in Weingarten when the abbey was dissolved in 1802 (recorded in catalogue of c.1802; Irtenkauf 1978, 348); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792 – 1872), his MS 4182; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 6 June 1898, lot 1134; purchased 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/170722 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Phillipps, Thomas, Sir Benedictine Abbey of St Martin TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1200 - 1200 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1200 culture: 13th Century, Early 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: 900 Jahre Heilig-Blut-Verehrung in Weingarten, 1094-1994 title: Exhibition to celebrate the 1200 year anniversary of the Relic of the Holy Blood CITATIONS -------- Die althochdeutschen Glossen A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Die Handschriften des Klosters Weingarten The Berthold Missal: The Pierpont Morgan Library MS 710 and the Scriptorium of Weingarten Abbey Das Heilige Blut Christi Weingarten 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 Verzeichnis der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften: mit Bibliographie der Glosseneditionen, der Handschriftenbeschreibungen und der Dialektbestimmungen Zur Säkuarisierung der Weingartner Bibliothek Die Romanischen Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters Die illuminierten Handschriften der Hessischen Landesbibliothek Fulda. Teil I. Handschriften des 6.-13. Jahrhunderts. Textband bearb. von Christine Jakobi-Mirwald auf Grund der Vorarbeiten von Herbert Köllner 900 Jahre Heilig-Blut-Verehrung in Weingarten, 1094-1994 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/584/268/MS_McClean_101_selected_folios.jpg height: 630 pixels width: 868 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/584/268/mid_MS_McClean_101_selected_folios.jpg height: 363 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/584/268/MS_McClean_101_selected_folios.jpg height: 630 pixels width: 868 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/584/268/preview_MS_McClean_101_selected_folios.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 249 pixels