IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 177344 accession number: MS McClean 29 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern paper flyleaf + 236 fols. + i modern paper flyleaf, 272 x 176-180 mm (172 x 55 mm, extending to 150 mm on pages with glosses in both margins), one column, 44 lines (written on every third ruled line to accommodate interlinear glosses), ruled in plummet with ruling for glosses in inner and outer margins as required, running headers, catchwords BINDING: Eighteenth century, blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards CONTENTS: fols. 1r-236r St Paul, Epistles with interlinear and marginal glosses DECORATION: Historiated initial [P, 12 ll.] in liquid gold with inset sections of red and blue foliate motifs on unpainted grounds, on a ground of solid blue, with bowl of letter housing half-length portrait of St Paul, nimbed, holding a scroll, stave of letter extending the height of the written space (fol. 1r). ORNAMENTATION: Twelve initials in yellow with inset sections of red and blue foliate motifs on grounds of solid blue and green, often extending the height of the written space, with white vine-scroll touched with red in the bowl of the letter, for major text divisions: fols. 45v, 88v, 117v (with bird on whine scroll), 132r, 146v, 157r, 166v, 175v (bird finials to letter stem), 180r (bird finials to letter stem), 191r, 198v, 203r; yellow and red initial [M] on ground of solid blue and unpainted foliate interlace with pale washes of red or yellow (fol. 205r); red initials [1-2 ll.], some using foliate forms and occasional minor red pen flourishing, for minor text divisions; brown ink one-line initials with red paraph marks for lesser text divisions; the text following major initials is written in red and blue display capitals (fols. 1r, 205r) or in brown display capitals highlighted with yellow; gloss sections are marked by brown ink paraph marks, decorated with increasingly elaborate geometric motifs. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Written and illuminated at the Cistercian Abbey of Morimondo (no. 37 in the twelfth-century library inventory; Leclercq 1961, 179); still in Morimondo in the fifteenth-century when an ownership inscription was added on fol. 236v: Liber sancte Marie de morimondo ordinis cisterc. Mediolanensis dioces. No Lvii Lvi (erased and replaced with XXXVI in darker ink; Ferrari 1980, 264; similar ex-libris in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Pat. Lat. 214; Pächt and Alexander 1970, no. 50); possibly part of the collection of Francesco Giovio (1796-1873) (Ferrari 1993, 286 and 299); U. Hoepli, Milan, catalogue no. 83 (1883), no. 46 (cutting from catalogue pasted inside upper cover); bought from him by Frank McClean (1837-1904) in 1892 (James 1912a, 52); 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/177344 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Hoepli, U. Giovio, Francesco Cistercian Abbey of Morimondo TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1150 - 1150 creation date earliest: 1150 creation date latest: 1150 culture: 12th Century, Mid 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: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- Gli inizi dello scriptorium di Morimondo Biblioteche e Scrittoi Benedettini nella storia culturale della diocesi Ambrosiana: Appunti ed Episodi Dopo Bernardo: biblioteche e "scriptoria" cistercensi dell'Italia settentrionale nel XII secolo A Twelfth-Century Bible. A Jerusalem (?) Masterpiece Manuscrits Cisterciens de la Bibliotheque royale de Belgique (ex. cat.) 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 Cistertian Manuscripts in England 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 526 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_281r_29.jpg height: 741 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 526 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_281r_29.jpg height: 371 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_2845v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 554 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_2845v_29.jpg height: 704 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_2845v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 554 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_2845v_29.jpg height: 352 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_28175v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 552 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_28175v_29.jpg height: 707 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_28175v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 552 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_28175v_29.jpg height: 353 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_28205r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 537 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_28205r_29.jpg height: 726 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_28205r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 537 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20MCCLEAN_2029_20_28205r_29.jpg height: 363 pixels width: 250 pixels