IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118818 accession number: MS McClean 18 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern parchment flyleaf + 58 fols. + i modern parchment flyleaf, 248 x 180 mm (160 x 110-140 mm), one, two or three columns of varying width accommodating biblical text with or without one or two columns of gloss, 32 lines, ruled in plummet, 17 lines of biblical text written on alternate lines with interlinear glosses, varying number of lines for the marginal glosses, quire marks, catchwords. BINDING: Nineteenth century, blind-stamped brown leather over wooden boards. CONTENTS: fol. 1v Prologue to Tobit (thirteenth-century addition) fols. 2r-19v Tobit with interlinear and marginal glosses fols. 20r-43v Judith with prologue (fol. 20r-v), interlinear and marginal glosses fols. 43v-58v Esther with prologue (fol. 43r-v), interlinear and marginal glosses ORNAMENTATION: Red initial [T, 8 ll.] with black geometric motifs for Tobit (fol. 2r); blank spaces left for initials for Judith [A, 12 ll., fol. 20v) and Esther [I, 13 ll., fol. 44r]; alternate red and blue penwork initials [3 ll.] with reserved ornament and arabesque finials for chapters; opening words of Tobit and Judith in alternate red and blue capitals written down the side of the initial; incipits and explicits written in brown ink capitals [2 ll.] with calligraphic ornament. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), Ashburnham Appendix, no. VI; purchased from him by Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928) in May 1897 (bookplate inside upper cover); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 1 May 1899, lot 50 (cutting from sale catalogue inside upper cover); purchased 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/118818 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Thompson, Henry Yates Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878) TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1150 - 1175 creation date earliest: 1150 creation date latest: 1175 culture: 12th Century, third quarter# CITATIONS -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_2018_20_281v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 549 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_2018_20_281v_29.jpg height: 710 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_2018_20_281v_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 549 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_2018_20_281v_29.jpg height: 355 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_2018_20_282r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 540 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_2018_20_282r_29.jpg height: 722 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_2018_20_282r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 540 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_2018_20_282r_29.jpg height: 361 pixels width: 250 pixels