IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169754 accession number: MS 241 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 10 June 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf + 109 fols. + i paper flyleaf, 283 x 191 (204 x 136) mm, 2 columns, 32 lines, ruled in plummet, running headers. BINDING: 18th century, brown calf over pasteboards, partially erased arms of Park Abbey, Louvain, gold-stamped on both covers CONTENTS: fols. 1v – 34v Gospel of St Mattew, with prologues, capitula, and argumentum; fols. 34v – 53v Gospel of St Mark, with prologue and capitula; fols. 53v – 85v Gospel of St Luke, with prologue and capitula; fols. 85v – 109r Gospel of St John, with prologue and capitula. DECORATION: Historiated initial [L, 32 ll.] framed and occupying left-hand text column: fol. 7v St Matthew’s Gospel, Four medallions with busts of Evangelists, the second holding a book, the other three with scrolls. ORNAMENTATION: Multicoloured initials formed of and filled with coiled foliage, hybrid beasts, and human heads on gold grounds, and accompanied by the first words of text in gold or alternate blue, red and green capitals, occupying full page at the beginning of St John’s Gospel (fol. 87v), one text column at the beginning of St Marc’s Gospel (fols. 36r; initial for St Luke’s Gospel on fol. 55v cut out), and 8 – 25 lines at prologues (fols. 1v, 2v, 4r, 5r, 5v, 34v, 85v); blue, red and green penwork initials [1 – 4 ll.] with pen-flourished ornament in alternate colours. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Park Abbey, Leuven (eighteenth-century pressmark ‘J. theca .ii.’ verso of flyleaf at front); among the 374 volumes sold by Park Abbey in 1829 (sale catalogue, 38, no. 15); Abbey of St Peter, Ghent (inscription inside upper cover); Pierre-Philippe-Constant Lammens (1762 – 1836), librarian of the University of Ghent (ex-libris inside upper cover, his catalogue, II, 393, no. 8); Jean de Meyer; his sale, Ghent, 2 Nov. 1868, sale catalogue, 17, no. 67; purchased by Muller for 500 fr.; Pierre-Henri Gélis-Didot (1853 – 1902) (bookplate inside upper cover); his sale, Paris, 12 – 13 April 1897, lot 2; purchased for the Museum from Messrs Maggs in 1897. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169754 PEOPLE ------------------- Gélis-Didot, Pierre-Henri Muller de Meyer, Jean Lammens, Pierre-Philippe-Constant Abbey of St Peter Park Abbey TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1250 - 1250 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1250 culture: 12th Century, Mid# EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) Les manuscrits mediveaux de l'abbaye de Parc A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands ---