IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118799 accession number: MS McClean 5 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: Bible (part) NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. 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/118799 PEOPLE ------------------- Quaritch SUBJECTS ------------------- monastery of St Illidius at Clermont in Auvergne TECHNIQUES ---------- egg tempura TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 930 - 1025 creation date earliest: 930 creation date latest: 1025 culture: 10th Century-11th Century CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges - Part Four. The British Isles. Vol. 1: Insular and Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Paschasius Radbertus Katalog der festlaendischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der Wisigotischen) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f2r_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/mid_MS_20McClean_205_28f2r_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f2r_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/preview_MS_20McClean_205_28f2r_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f46v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/mid_MS_20McClean_205_28f46v_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f46v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/preview_MS_20McClean_205_28f46v_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f98v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/mid_MS_20McClean_205_28f98v_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f98v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/preview_MS_20McClean_205_28f98v_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f116v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/mid_MS_20McClean_205_28f116v_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f116v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/preview_MS_20McClean_205_28f116v_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f192v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/mid_MS_20McClean_205_28f192v_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f192v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/preview_MS_20McClean_205_28f192v_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f199v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/mid_MS_20McClean_205_28f199v_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/MS_20McClean_205_28f199v_29.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb9/preview_MS_20McClean_205_28f199v_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels