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Passional-Legendary
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Parchment, ii modern paper flyleaves + 161 fols. (fols. 1-149 have late medieval foliation i-xvii, xxvi-lxxix, iiiixx-iiiixxii, iiiixxxi (misbound), iiiixxvi-iiiixvii, iiiixxxv-cii, viixxxvii-viixxxix, viiixxi, viiixxiii-ixxxxii, ixxxxiiii-iiccix, iiccxi-iiccxxiiii) + ii modern paper flyleaves, 320 x 240 mm (254 x 199 mm), two columns, 39 lines, ruled in hard point (except fols. 149-161, 265 x 193 mm, 33-34 lines, ruled in hard point and crayon), fol. 1 cut in half vertically, fol. 77 misbound between fols. 74 and 75, leaves lost after fols. 17, 74, 76, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 119, 135, 144, 148.
BINDING: nineteenth century, probably French (spine lining from French daily newspaper), purple velvet over wooden boards
SECUNDO FOLIO: testimonium ferimus
SCRIPT: Caroline minuscule
CONTENTS:
fols. 1r-161v Passions, Lives and Sermons for Saints, including readings for the Invention and Exaltation of the Cross (fols. 6r-12r, 140v-142r)
ORNAMENTATION:
Foliate and geometric initials [4-28 ll.] in red, green and yellow, with occasional reserved abstract ornament, simple interlace, beads, faces or masks, in stems or as infill (e.g. fols. 32r, 42r, 72r, 129r); red and green foliate or abstract line-fillers (fols. 100v, 103v), capitals highlighted in red.
History note: Sixteenth-century ownership inscription, Frere iehein percaul bensis (fol. 7r); inscriptions ‘Aug. 1852’ and ‘Catal. A’ (verso of first paper flyleaf at front); Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), Ashburnham Appendix no. XC; Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 1 May 1899, lot 41; purchased by Frank McClean (1837-1904); his bequest, 1904.
Bequeathed by Frank McClean
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
11th Century
Circa
1025
-
Circa
1075
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 254 mm
Width 199 mm
Text (fols. 149-161)
Height 265 mm
Width 199 mm
Page
Height 320 mm
Width 240 mm
Accession number: MS McClean 100
Primary reference Number: 207639
Project ID: 37
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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