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Author: Jerome
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf + 130 fols. (with four additions made on inserted parchment pieces foliated 16*, 25*, 53*, 102*) + i paper flyleaf, 214 x 140 (172 x 100) mm, 39 long lines, ruled in plummet, written above top line.
BINDING: nineteenth century, half-bound in sprinkled calf and marbled paper over pasteboards.
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 130v Jerome, Epistulae; fol. 130v Recipe Ad curandum dolorem oculorum ending expertum est 1439 moguncie.
ORNAMENTATION: Red initial [E, 7 ll.] with fleshy acanthus and foliage scrolls (fol. 1r); red penwork initials [1 – 5 ll.]; marginal corrections and additions within geometric or foliate frames in brown and red ink; capitals highlighted in red.
History note: Probably in Mainz in 1439 (fol. 130v); Bib. Hirs. [Collegii Jesu] (seventeenth-century inscription on fol. 1r, last two words partially erased); Guglielmo Libri (1803-1869); his sale, Christie’s, London, 7 Feb. 1895, lot 52; purchased by Frank McClean (1837 – 1904); his bequest, 1904
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
12th Century, first half#
Circa
1100
CE
-
Circa
1150
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS McClean 112
Primary reference Number: 170725
Project ID: 42
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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