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PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 270 fols. + i contemporary parchment flyleaf, 270 x 150 (110 x 70mm), 16 long lines, ruled in red ink, catchwords.

BINDING: 15th century, brown leather over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on five supports, blind-stamped panel design with stamps of Pelican in her piety, bird, ape, and stag, traces of two fastening devices on fore edge, substantially repaired and rebacked in 18th and 20th centuries.

CONTENTS: fols. 1v – 13r Calendar; fols. 14r – 265r Psalter, Gallican, with canticles and Quicumque vult; fols. 265r – 270r Litany with collects

DECORATION: Eight framed miniatures [10 – 12 ll.] on gold grounds with delicately punched designs, with gold bars of blue, pink and orange foliage framing text on three sides and extending into foliage scrolls and spraywork with flowers and hybrids, for the Psalms of the eight-fold division:
fol. 14r Psalm 1, David enthroned and playing harp; fol. 48r Psalm 26, David pointing to eyes and blessed by God; fol. 70r Psalm 38, David pointing to mouth and blessed by God; fol. 91v Psalm 52, Christ and Fool; fol. 112v, Psalm 68, David praying in water and blessed by God; fol. 139v Psalm 80, David playing bells and blessed by God; fol. 164r Psalm 97, Four clerics chanting at lectern; fol. 191r Psalm 109, Throne of Mercy.

Pen and ink drawing with brush and black wash and heightened in white and gold on brown prepared paper (150 x 120 mm, originally c.165 mm high) pasted on fol. 1r: St Waltrude standing on the Holy Mountain accompanied by Saints Aubert, Vincent, Landrie, Guislain, Aldegund, Aldetrude and Madelberte, with inscription ‘Venite ascendemus ad / montem Domini Isa.2’, central medallion inscribed: ‘Le portrait/ de l'estat de mariage/ & de Continence/ fait/ sur la vie de la tres-illustre S.Wautrude/ Comtesse de Hanran. et patrone de Mons./par…’, and cartouche with a merry company at a table below inscribed ‘…tur. Non praeterea nos flos temporis’.

ORNAMENTATION: Blue or pink white-patterned initials [3 – 4 ll.] on gold grounds, with hybrids and foliage infill extending into the borders described above, for the Psalms of the eight-fold division, Psalms 51 and 101; gold initials [2 – 3 ll.] on blue and pink white-patterned grounds, with one-sided gold, blue and pink bar borders and gold ivy-leaf spraywork extensions, for Calendar (KL), ordinary Psalms, canticles, Litany, and collects; one-line gold initials on blue and pink white-patterned grounds; capitals highlighted in red.

Notes

History note: Richard, seventh viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 – 1816), acquired in 1815; his bequest, 1816.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

15th Century, Early#
1400 CE - 1410 CE

People, subjects and objects depicted

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  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Ink
Gold

Components of the work

Support composed of paper parchment
Text Height 110 mm Width 70 mm
Page Height 270 mm Width 150 mm

Techniques used in production

Illumination

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: (iusto) rum. Quoniam novit
  • Location: Fol.15r
  • Type: Secundo folio

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Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 14
Primary reference Number: 169629
Project ID: 46
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 18 July 2023 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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