IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176588 accession number: MS McClean 164 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 16 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern parchment flyleaves + i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 179 fols. (early foliation in brown ink) + ii contemporary parchment flyleaves + iii modern parchment flyleaves, 288 x 210 mm (190 x 90 mm), 28 verse lines ruled in plummet, catchwords, running headers in blue and red. BINDING: Late nineteenth century, red tooled morocco over wooden boards, by Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf (1853–1930). CONTENTS: fols. 1v-2r Ps-Augustus Caesar, Disputatio ne liber Virgilii igne dissoluatur (Riese 1894-1906, II, no. 672) fol. 2r Twelve-line verse summary of the Aeneid constructed from the first line of each Pseudo-Ovidian argumentum to the Aeneid (Shackleton Bailey 1982, 2-10) fol. 2v Basilius, De xii libros Aeneidos (Riese 1894-1906, II, no. 634) fols. 2v-179r Virgil, Aeneid, with apocryphal four-line opening (Ille ego quondam), Pseudo-Ovidian argumenta for each book (in the margin) and commentary Virgilius triplici stilo sua tria opera tractauit. DECORATION: Twelve red and blue parted initials [7-9 ll.] with infill and extensions in red and purple pen-flourishing, for each book of the Aeneid; alternate red and blue initials [4-7 ll.] with purple or red pen-flourishing for introductory texts and the argumentum to Book 1; red or blue initials [2 ll.] with red pen-flourishing for subsequent argumenta written in the margins; alternate red and blue paraphs in the text; red paraphs in the gloss. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Copied in Pratovecchio, Tuscany, in the second half of the fourteenth century (colophon fol. 179v); Georgio Antonio Vespucci (c.1434-1514), ownership inscription on fol. 179v and notes in his hand on fol. iv recto and fol. 179v; Ognissanti church, Florence (erased arms in the lower margin of fol. 3r); library of the Minutoli-Tegrimi family in Lucca (stamp DI CASA MINUTOLI TEGRIMI, fols. 2r and 179v; Frati 1933, 366); Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876); his sale, Paris, June 1881, lot 4; Sotheby’s, London, July 1884, lot 252; labels from a sale catalogue describing this manuscript as lot 2239, with ink annotation: ‘S. W. + H. White Lib. April ’04’, attached to fol. i recto; 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/176588 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Didot, Ambroise Firmin Minutoli-Tegrimi family Ognissanti church Vespucci, Georgio Antonio TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1350 - 1399 creation date earliest: 1350 creation date latest: 1399 culture: 14th Century, second half CREATORS -------- maker: Virgil maker: Jacopo da Pratovecchio, Ser Guido di CITATIONS -------- Giovanni del Virgilio, Pietro da Moglio, Francesco da Fiano The Handwriting of the Italian Humanists A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20164_20_283r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 520 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_20164_20_283r_29.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20164_20_283r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 520 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_20164_20_283r_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20164_20_2816r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 522 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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