IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93594 accession number: MS McClean 115 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern paper flyleaf lined with leather + 336 fols. + i modern paper flyleaf lined with leather, 337 x 223 mm (212 x 102 mm), 29 long lines, ruled in hard point, running headers, catchwords BINDING: Nineteenth century, blind- and gold-stamped brown leather over wooden boards. CONTENTS: fol. 1v Lactantius, Dedication to Emperor Constantine I fols. 2r-3v Summary of Lactantius’ career fols. 3v-4r List of capitula to Bk I of Divinae institutiones fols. 4v-283r Lactantius, Divinae institutiones fols. 284r-311r Lactantius, De ira dei with prologue and list of capitula fols. 311v-336v Lactantius, De opificio dei with dedication to Demetrianus and list of capitula DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of gold interlace entwined in white vine-scroll on blue, green and red ground with triplets of white dots: fol. 4v Divinae institutiones, Bk I, [M, 10 ll.] Lactantius writing in his study, with full border of gold interlace and white vine-scroll on blue, green and red ground with triplets of white dots inhabited by putti, birds and animals, and containing a medallion with the year 1460 (top), a wreath with overpainted coat of arms (bottom), and three corner medallions enclosing the scenes of Gideon’s fleece (top left), Samson defeating the lion (bottom left) and Judith beheading Holofernes (bottom right). ORNAMENTATION: Architectural frontispiece on purple shredded ground enclosing the Dedication to Emperor Constantine I (fol. 1v). Gold initial [D, 7 ll.] with white vine-scroll infill on blue, green and red ground with triplets of white dots, extending into a full border with gold interlaced frame, putti, birds, animals, hybrids, spraywork extensions with gold balls and flowers, and a wreath enclosing the arms of Niccoló Forteguerri surmounted by a Cardinal’s hat (fol. 2r); gold initials [8-10 ll.] with identical infill and three-sided borders for remaining books of Divinae institutiones (fols. 46r, 83v, 127r, 168v, 203v, 248r), and the beginning of De ira dei (fol. 284v) and De opificio dei (fol. 312r); gold initials [3 ll.] with white vine-scroll infill and extensions on blue, green and red grounds with triplets of white dots, terminating in spraywork with gold balls, for prologues and capitula. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Completed for Niccolò Forteguerri (1419-1473) on 7 June 1460 (colophon, fol. 336v); purchased from Ulrico Hoepi in Milan 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/93594 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Hoepi, Ulrico Forteguerri, Niccoló TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Lactantius maker: Gobellini de Lins, Johannes EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance title: Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum title: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West CITATIONS -------- Codicologie des manuscrits en écriture humanistique sur parchemin 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 Les Miniaturistes "romains" sous Pie II. 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