IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 179017 accession number: MS McClean 111 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 87 fols. + ii paper flyleaves, 240 x 165 mm (170-179 x 115-118 mm), two columns, 25-32 lines, ruled in pale brown ink, running headers, catchwords BINDING: Before 1820, France, gold-tooled orange paper over pasteboards with red morocco spine and corners, edges gilt, blue silk bookmark, by Thouvenin (lettering on spine: R.[elié] P.[ar] Thouvenin) CONTENTS: fols. 1r–87v Gregory the Great, Dialogi, with capitula preceding each of the four books ORNAMENTATION: Graded pink initials [3-7 ll.] with white geometric motifs, blue foliage infill on pink ground and acanthus extensions on gold and blue grounds within green and orange frames for books (fols. 1r, 16v, 34r, 60r), Prologue to Bk III (fol. 34r) and Bk III, chapter 13 (fol. 40r); alternate red and blue penwork initials [2-3 ll.] in blue or red pen-flourished infill and extensions for nearly all of Gregory’s and Peter’s speeches and for the first entry in the capitula to Bk IV (fol. 59v); alternate red and blue one-line penwork initials with blue or red pen-flourished infill; capitals highlighted in yellow. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: In France by the early nineteenth century (binding); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his MS 286 (number on recto of second paper flyleaf at front, on verso of parchment flyleaf at front, and on the spine); his sale, Sotheby’s London, 6-11 June 1898, lot 619; 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/179017 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Phillipps, Thomas, Sir TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ culture: 14th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Gregory the Great CITATIONS -------- 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 Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 737 - 1600 in Cambridge Libraries --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20111_20_2832v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 547 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_20111_20_2832v_29.jpg height: 713 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20111_20_2832v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 547 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_20111_20_2832v_29.jpg height: 356 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20111_20_2840r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 548 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_20111_20_2840r_29.jpg height: 712 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20111_20_2840r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 548 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_20111_20_2840r_29.jpg height: 356 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20111_20_2860r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 543 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_20111_20_2860r_29.jpg height: 718 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20111_20_2860r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 543 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_20111_20_2860r_29.jpg height: 359 pixels width: 250 pixels