IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 178385 accession number: MS McClean 160 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 3 December 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern parchment flyleaves + iii sixteenth-century parchment flyleaves + xi blank parchment leaves + 209 fols. + iii modern parchment flyleaves, 277 x 180 mm (160 x 97 mm), 24 long lines, ruled in hard point, catchwords, alphabetical quire marks, one leaf missing before fol. 1 and another after fol. 8. BINDING: Late nineteenth or early twentieth century, light brown skin over wooden boards, blind-tooled with floral motifs, gilt edges, by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (1853-1930), London. CONTENTS: fols. 2r-207r Pseudo-Quintilian, Declamationes maiores, with some argumenta, in the following order: 2, 1, 8, 13-19, 3-11 ORNAMENTATION: Thirty-one faceted initials [4-6 ll.] in gold and colour on square bas-relief grounds of dark blue, purple, green or red, each painted with classicising motifs (armour, mythical beasts and sea creatures, nudes and heads, flowers) in liquid gold or silver, and each accompanied by a single-sided border consisting of floral and classical elements (garlanded bull’s heads, portrait roundels, putto’s heads, crossed shields), the whole on shredded grounds of green, purple or red (fols. 3v, 22v [2], 35v, 36r, 53v [2], 64v [2], 71r, 79v [2], 97r [2], 107r, 116v [2], 126r [2], 134r [2], 153v [2], 167v [2], 176v [2], 189v [2], 200v [2]); rubrics in pale red epigraphic capitals (not all executed). title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably copied for Cardinal Giovanni d’Aragona (1456-1485); Mario Maffei of Volterra (1463-1537); his gift to Paulo Giovio (1485-1552) (painted panel on fol. ii verso: MARIVS MAFFEVS VOLATERRAN. HVNC LIBRVM PAVLLO IOVIO HISTORIARUM SCRIP ILLUSTR D.D.); by descent to Giovanni Batttista Giovio (1748-1814) (notes on fol. ii verso); purchased by Frank McClean (1837-1904) in 1892 from Ulrico Hoepli in Milan; 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/178385 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Hoepli, Ulrico Giovio, Giovanni Batttista Giovio, Paulo Maffei of Volterra, Mario Cardinal Giovanni d’Aragona TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1480 - 1485 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1485 culture: 15th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Pseudo-Quintilian maker: Sinibaldi, Antonio da Carmignano di Francesco EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- Renaissance Miniature Painters and Classical Imagery: The Master of the Putti and his Venetian Workshop Dizionario dei miniatori italiani A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Florentine Scribes of Cardinal Giovanni of Aragon New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula Recherches des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20160_20_2822v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 533 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_20160_20_2822v_29.jpg height: 732 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20160_20_2822v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 533 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_20160_20_2822v_29.jpg height: 366 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20160_20_2835v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 526 pixels 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