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Gospel Book
Binder: Proctor, R. W. (Cambridge)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii modern parchment flyleaves + 152 fols. (medieval foliation I-CXII in red Roman numerals) + ii modern parchment flyleaves, 236 x 166 mm (168 x 112 mm), 21 long lines, ruled in plummet; quire marks, trace of tab on fol. 148
BINDING: 1995, alum-tawed skin over wooden boards, by Robert Proctor, edges gilt, former nineteenth-century binding of dark purple morocco over pasteboards preserved with manuscript
SECUNDO FOLIO: genuit eleazar
SCRIPT: Early Gothic bookhand
CONTENTS
fols. 1r-122r Gospels for the Temporal from Christmas Day to the twenty-fourth week after Pentecost
fols. 122r-128v Gospels for the Temporal for Advent
fols. 128v-147v Gospels for the Sanctoral from St Felix (14 Jan.) to St Thomas the Apostle (21 Dec.)
fols. 147v-149r Gospels for the Common of the Saints
fol. 149r Gospels for Ordinations of Deacons, Priests and Bishops
fol. 149r Gospel In ieiunio de natale pape
fol. 149r Gospel for Marriage Mass
fol. 149v Gospel for the Dedication of a Church
fol. 150r Gospel for the Dedication of an Oratory
fols. 150r-152v Gospels for Votive Masses
DECORATION
Three historiated initials on gold grounds, all extending vertically beyond the text block: fol. 1r Christmas Day, [I, 25 ll.] Three medallions enclosing Joseph talking to Mary, the Dream of Joseph, and two monsters wrestling, with two figures, probably apostles, standing between the medallions and holding a book and a scroll respectively, on gold, red and blue grounds with acanthus foliage as terminals; fol. 69r Easter Sunday, [I, 23 ll.] Two medallions enclosing busts of the Holy Women and the Holy Women at the Tomb, with foliage coils in between; fol. 82r Pentecost, [I, 23 ll.] Three medallions enclosing Christ holding book talking to apostles, Ascension, and Pentecost on blue and red grounds, with large acanthus motifs in between, their stems entwined around the frame of the initial, and with snake-like heads biting the frames of the medallions.
ORNAMENTATION
Initials with gold, pink or green stems on gold grounds, one (fol. 80r) extending vertically beyond the text block: fol. 6v Epiphany, [C, 3 ll.] Griffin on blue ground; fol. 80r Ascension Day, [I, 25 ll.] Winged hybrid with human head, two birds, a beast biting itself, set in medallions on blue and pink grounds with acanthus motifs on gold grounds separating them; fol. 135r Nativity of John Baptist, [I, 17 ll.] Birds and foliage with stems entwined around the frame of the initial in blue, pink and red on gold ground; alternated blue and red initials [3-11 ll.] with red or blue pen-flourished surround and very occasional infill (e.g. fols. 5v, 8v, 127v), and with small foliage extensions; alternate red and blue one-line initials; red and blue paraph marks; capitals highlighted in red.
History note: Largely erased sixteenth-century inscription, now illegible, but recorded by James, referring to the gift from a priest named John to a Collegiate Church of St Andrew in 1570: Pour seinte(?) collegiale .... St Andre de Chaud ... ex dono Joannis presbyter huius ecclesie prepositi die Veneris tercio Jullii anno domini millesimo quinguent. (sexagesimo with erasure marks) septuagesimo. Gorle (?) ... pbres (fol. 152v); Thomas Bateman (1821-1861), Middleton Hall, by Youlgrave, Derbyshire (armorial bookplate inside upper cover of former binding); to his son, William Bateman; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 25-31 May 1893, lot 742; Frank McClean (1837-1904); his bequest, 1904.
Bequeathed by Frank McClean
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
12th Century, second half
Circa
1150
CE
-
Circa
1200
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 168 mm
Width 112 mm
Page
Height 236 mm
Width 166 mm
Accession number: MS McClean 23
Primary reference Number: 118796
Project ID: 808
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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