IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207638 accession number: MS McClean 50 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 15 January 2016 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern parchment flyleaves + v medieval parchment flyleaves (foliated i-v) + 117 fols. (foliated 1-91, 91*-117) + iii medieval parchment flyleaves + iii modern parchment flyleaves, 280 x 180 mm (190 x 115 mm), 25 long lines, ruled in light brown ink, quire marks BINDING: nineteenth century, light brown leather over pasteboards, blind-stamped with dark brown foliate ornament, gilt fore-edges, by Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf (1853–1930); two inscriptions give information on the previous binding: Unum missale quod solebat habere asseres argenti coopertum de albo (fol. 1v), Missale quod solebat habere asseres copert. / ex argento et nunc copertum de albo signat, litera…(last medieval parchment flyleaf at end) SECUNDO FOLIO: [ut] hii qui in tua pietate confidunt SCRIPT: Early Gothic bookhand CONTENTS fol. v recto-verso Laudes crucis attolamus with musical notation on a red four-line stave (later addition) fols. 1r-44r Temporal from Advent Sunday to Dominica XXVI after the Octave of Easter fol. 44r-v Mass for the consecration of a church fols. 44v-46r Mass for the anniversary of the dedication of a church fols. 46r-57r Ordinary of the Mass fol. 57r Collect (later addition) fols. 57v-91v Sanctoral from St Stephen (26 Dec.) to St Martin (11 Nov.) fol. 91*r Mass of St Martin (added leaf) fols. 92r-95v Sanctoral from St Menna (11 Nov.) to St Thomas Ap. (21 Dec.) fols. 95v-99v Common of Saints fols. 99v-115r Votive Masses including a Mass for St Cyricus (fol. 102r) fol. 115r-v Missa contra paganos; Pro invasione gentium (later additions) fols. 115v-116v Excerpts from the Gospels of Saints John, Matthew and Luke (later additions) fol. 117r Missa pro patre et matre (later addition) fol. 117r Gospel of St John 1:1-14 through to the Last Gospel at the end of Mass (later addition) fol. 117v Prayer, Omnipotens deus qui omne genus humanum tenebris infidelitas (later addition) fol. 117v Sequence with musical notation on a four-line stave, Hodierne lux diei / celebris in matris dei/ agitur memoria (later addition) DECORATION Three-quarter page miniature in a green foliage frame outlined in orange and vermilion on a blue ground with a pink central panel for the Canon of the Mass: fol. 53v Crucifixion, with Virgin Mary and St John flanking the cross, surmounted by a very large titulus on which Christ hangs by four nails with his feet resting on a suppedaneum, with personifications of the sun and moon above. ORNAMENTATION Eight large multi-coloured initials [6-8 ll.] with foliage coil infill on red, blue and gold (occasionally with punch dots) grounds incorporating a dragon (fol. 5r), white lions (fol. 35r), bird motifs (fol. 57v ) and a mask at head of conjoined birds (fol. 90r) for the collects for the main Sundays and feast days (fols. 1r, 5r, 26v, 35r, 52v (two conjoined initials), 57v, 90r); gold initial [T, 4 ll.] on blue ground with gold foliage and silver crossbar for the Canon of the Mass (fol. 53v); red, blue, green and yellow arabesque initials [3-6 ll.] on grounds of contrasting colours with infill of foliage motifs on plain ground for other collects and textual divisions (e.g. fols. 3v, 33r), with occasional foliate marginal extensions (fol. 47v); alternate red and blue initials [1-7 ll.] with blue and red simple pen flourishing surround and infill respectively, including conjoined initials enclosing crosses for the Prefaces; red initials [2-6 ll.] for added texts (fols. 115r-116v); alternate red and blue one-line initials; capitals highlighted in red for Laudes crucis attolamus (fol. v recto-verso) title: missal NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by Frank McClean (1837-1904) from Leo Olschki in 1893; 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 creditline: Bequeathed by Frank McClean STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207638 TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- egg tempura TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1150 - 1199 creation date earliest: 1150 creation date latest: 1199 culture: 12th Century, Late CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges - Part Three. France. Vol. 1: France, c.1000-c.1250 A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb8/ms_20mcclean_2050_f1r_201210_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 664 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb8/mid_ms_20mcclean_2050_f1r_201210_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 771 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb8/ms_20mcclean_2050_f1r_201210_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 664 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb8/preview_ms_20mcclean_2050_f1r_201210_201210_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 386 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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