IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 182092 accession number: MS McClean 52 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION A Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 44 fols. (foliated i – ii, 1-42, the latter being medieval foliation in red,), 211 x 148 mm (137 x 90 mm), 24 long lines, ruled in plummet, catchwords. B Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 5 fols., 211 x 148 mm (168 x 118 mm), 29 long lines, ruled in plummet. BINDING: Nineteenth century, purple-brown leather over wooden boards, B bound upside down at the end of the volume, first title BENEDICTIONES gold-stamped on top of spine, second title AFORISMUS gold-stamped upside down at bottom of spine. CONTENTS A fols. i recto - ii recto Index of the Benedictions of the Temporal and Sanctoral fols. 1r-39r Benedictions for the Temporal and Sanctoral fols. 39v-42r Benediction of a font fol. 42v Benedictions for Confirmations B fols. 1r-2r Aforismus siderum (Involutio sphaerae) fol. 2r Interpretation of the Hebrew Alphabet (begins imperfectly) fol. 2v Letter written partly in Tironian notes fols. 2v-3v Life of St Jerome (BHL no. 3871d, Fros 1986, 422, no. 6b) fol. 4r-4v Notes on the liturgical year from Septuagesima to Maundy Thursday attributed to Hrabanus Maurus fol. 5r-5v Compendiosa disputatio DECORATION: Diagram of the constellations and musical tones with a rough sketch of an altar beside it (B, fol. 5v). ORNAMENTATION: Pen-flourished initial [D, 6 ll.] with peacock's tail pattern in the infill, parti-coloured stem and a large partial border in red, blue, green and purple penwork, containing exotic flowers, foliage, and a painted barbed quatrefoil with a blank shield surmounted by a bishop's mitre in the middle of the lower border (A, fol. 1r). title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Jean Baptiste Joseph Barrois (1780–1855), no. clxxxxiii in his collection, an inscription on fol. ii verso, Très curieux; Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797–1878); Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10–14 June 1901, Barrois Collection, lot 54; purchased by 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/182092 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840 – 1913) Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878) Barrois, Jean-Baptiste Joseph TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1425 - 1450 creation date earliest: 1425 creation date latest: 1450 culture: 15th Century, second quarter culture: 9th Century-10th Century CITATIONS -------- Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals in England and Wales Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Hand List of the Musical and Latin-liturgical MSS. Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. 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_2052_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 540 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20MCCLEAN_2052_20_281r_29.jpg height: 722 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2052_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 540 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20MCCLEAN_2052_20_281r_29.jpg height: 361 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2052_20_2820v_2021r_29.jpg height: 555 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20MCCLEAN_2052_20_2820v_2021r_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20MCCLEAN_2052_20_2820v_2021r_29.jpg height: 555 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20MCCLEAN_2052_20_2820v_2021r_29.jpg height: 183 pixels width: 250 pixels