IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169759 accession number: MS 263 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii paper flyleaves + 148 fols. + i paper flyleaf, 107 x 80 (62 x 42) mm, 16 long lines, ruled in brown ink. BINDING: eighteenth-century, vellum over pasteboards, spine inscribed Gebeden Boek van A° 1483. CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 10r Calendar; fol. 10v Table of the Zodiac signs and the lunar cycle of 19 years; fol. 11r Table for calculating the number of weeks between Christmas and Quinquagesima Sunday using the Golden Number and Dominical Letter; fol. 11v Table of good and bad activities as determined by the Zodiac signs; fols. 12r – 13v Table for bloodletting according to the Zodiac signs; fol. 15r Circular diagram of the cycle of the Dominical Letter for the period 1483 – 1510; fol. 15v Circular diagram of the cycle of the Golden Number for the period 1483 – 1510; fol. 16v Table for calculating the date of the new moon using the Golden Number and the Dominical Letter; fols. 17r – 94v Prayers and meditations on the Life of Christ from the feast of St Andrew to the; Transfiguration; fols. 94v – 104r Sermon, Ik sel u een waerheit segghen fols. 104v – 124v Prayers to the Virgin, the Lord, the Apostles, and Saints Barbara and Anne; fols. 125r – 132v Prayers for every half-hour at the canonical hours; fols. 132v – 138r Prayers based on the Penitential Psalms fols. 138r – 139v Prayer on the Five Wounds; fols. 139v – 144v Devotion on the Passion; fols. 144v – 148v Prayer of St Francis, Heer ihesu christi dope mi mit dinem dueren bloede. ORNAMENTATION: Blue and red parted initials [4 – 6 ll.] with red pen-flourished infill and extensions tinted in green and forming partial borders at main text divisions; blue or red penwork initials [3 – 4 ll.] with voided ornament and red pen-flourished infill and extensions tinted in green; alternate blue and red penwork initials [2 ll]; capitals highlighted in red. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: ink inscription on recto of second flyleaf: mr. F m. No. 1595 z/v k/k P.J.U. 93 25/11 P.I.U. 93 25; presented to the Museum by William George Searle (d.1913), MA Queens’ College, in 1902. 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/169759 PEOPLE ------------------- Searle, William George TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ culture: 15th Century# CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/332/large_MS_263_f17r_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/332/mid_MS_263_f17r_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/332/MS_263_f17r_mas.jpg height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/332/preview_MS_263_f17r_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels