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Breviary
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 366 fols. + ii paper flyleaves, 104 x 150 mm (68 x 122 mm), 29 long lines, ruled in plummet, leaves lost after fols. 92, 234, 366
BINDING: Nineteenth century, vellum over pasteboards.
CONTENTS
fols. 1r - 77r Psalter
fols. 77r - 84 Canticles and Athanasian Creed
fols. 84r - 86v Office of the Dead
fol. 87r Office for recovery of the Holy Land (addition)
fol. 87v Two collects (addition)
fols. 88r - 92r Hymnal
fols. 93r - 95r Offices for Saints Agatha, Lucy and Mary Magdalene
fols. 95r - 100v Hymnal
fols. 101r - 214v Temporal from the Vigil of Advent Sunday to Good Friday
fols. 215r - 234v Sanctoral from the feast of St Stephen (26 Dec.) to the feast of St George (23 April)
fols. 235r - 301v Temporal from Holy Saturday to twenty-eighth week after Pentecost
fols. 302r - 362r Sanctoral from the feast of St Benedict (21 March) to the feast of St Thomas the Apostle (21 Dec.)
fols. 362v - 366v Common of Saints
DECORATION: Historiated initial ornamental palmettes on green ground: fol. 1r Psalm 1, [B, 14 ll.] Three-quarter length figure of King David; grotesque faces as infill to initials (e.g. fols. 20r, 34v, 65v, 83r)
ORNAMENTATION: Ornamental initials [6-8 ll.] in blue and red with foliage motifs in yellow and green against parted yellow and green backgrounds for the liturgical divisions of the Psalter (e.g. fols. 12v, 26v, 33v, 51r); alternate blue and red penwork initials [2-3 ll.] with red and blue pen flourishing for minor text divisions, some with partial extensions in side margins (e.g. fol. 50v) and occasionally with dragons and lions in the lower margins (fols. 3v, 19r, 53r, 57r).
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
13th Century, second quarter
Circa
1235
CE
-
Circa
1250
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS McClean 36
Primary reference Number: 182088
Project ID: 796
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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