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Bible (part)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment
A: iv modern parchment flyleaves + 191 fols., 355 x 275 mm (260 x 190 mm), two columns, 29 lines, ruled in hard point, quire marks in large Roman numerals, numerous leaves and six quires lost, ii modern parchment leaves marking lacunae after fols. 101 and 171
B: ii modern parchment leaves + 23 fols. + iv modern parchment flyleaves, 355 x 275 mm (255 x 188 mm), two columns, 23 lines, ruled in hard point, pricking in outer margins
BINDING: late nineteenth or early twentieth century, alum tawed pigskin over wooden boards, blind-stamped with stars, floral and geometric motifs
SECUNDO FOLIO: iuncti errant
SCRIPT: Caroline minuscule
CONTENTS
A
fols. 1r-83v Bible, Prov - Ecclus with prologues
fols. 83v-84r Oratio Salomonis
fols. 84r-139r Epistles, Rom - Jude with argumenta and capitula
fols. 139r-172v I Par - II Par with prologues
fols. 173r-189r Apoc with prologue and capitula
fols. 189r-191v Commemoratio Basilicae Dedicationis Sancti Michaelis Archangeli
B
fol. 192r Apoc 22:15-21
fols. 192r-199v St Ambrose, Sermon for the Assumption of the Virgin, Adest dilectissimi fratres (ed. CPL 368)
fols. 199v-214v Paschasius Radbertus, Sermon on the Assumption of the Virgin, Cogitis me (attr. to St Jerome under whose name Paschasius Radbertus wrote it; text on fol. 214v added by twelfth- and thirteenth-century hands).
DECORATION
A
Initials [5-13 ll.] formed of interlace, acanthus and beasts’ heads, drawn in black ink with discrete sections or additional ornament occasionally drawn in orange-red, for biblical books and prologues (e.g. fols. 88r, 116v); display script [1-2 ll.] in alternate lines of black and red capitals, some coloured (later) in yellow, blue or green; black or orange-red initials [1-5 ll.].
B
Two initials formed of interlace, acanthus and beasts’ heads, drawn in black ink: fol. 192v St Ambrose, Sermon, [A, 14 ll.] with background coloured (probably later) in blue, red and yellow; fol. 199v Paschasius Radbertus, Sermon, [C, 6 ll.] with the rest of the first word, [C]ogitis, accommodated within the bowl of the initial and partially coloured in red; display script in alternate lines of black and red capitals or Uncials.
History note: Stated to have come from the monastery of St Illidius at Clermont in Auvergne. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his MS 10210 (inscribed on fol. 1r); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5-6 June 1898, lot 883; Bernard Quaritch, catalogue 180 (July 1898), no. 3; Frank McClean (1837-1904); his bequest, 1904.
Bequeathed by Frank McClean
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
10th Century-11th Century
Circa
930
CE
-
Circa
1025
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text (B)
Height 255 mm
Width 188 mm
Text (A)
Height 260 mm
Width 190 mm
Page
Height 355 mm
Width 275 mm
Accession number: MS McClean 5
Primary reference Number: 118799
Project ID: 822
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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