IDENTIFIERS
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id:	169765
accession number:	MS 271

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 20 December 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 200 fols. (contemporary pagination in black ink i - cc), 280 x 195 (195 x 130) mm, 2 columns, 38 lines, ruled in brown ink.

BINDING: fifteenth century, blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports, two clasps on lower cover, two catchplates on upper cover, 2 metal corner pieces on each cover, horn-covered fenestra within a metal frame on upper cover inscribed: Secunda pars moralium beati gregorij pape super iob, parchment tabs inscribed with book numbers, repaired and re-bound, Robert Proctor, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1990s.

CONTENTS: fols. i recto – cc recto Gregory, Moralia in Job, Bks 14 – 24.

ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initials [5 – 7 ll.] with voided ornament and red pen-flourished infill and extensions tinted in green for books; red penwork initials [2 ll.] for chapters; capitals highlighted in red.
title:	other

NOTES
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type: history note
value: copied for the Tertiaries of the Oude (Old) Convent of St John the Evangelist at Weesp, near Amsterdam, by their rector Peter Zwaninc who signed and dated the manuscript in 1470 (explicit, fol. cc recto); fifteenth-century ownership inscription of the convent inside upper cover: ‘Te weesp int oude conuent den susteren hoert dit boec’; later pressmark beneath inscription: A5.x.3; purchased for the Museum from H.T. Wake, Fritchley, Derby, in 1910.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169765

PEOPLE
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Wake, H. T.
Oude Convent of St John the Evangelist




TECHNIQUES
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penwork
TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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culture:	15th Century, third quarter

CREATORS
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maker: Gregory
maker: Proctor, Robert


CITATIONS
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)
Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 737 - 1600 in Cambridge Libraries
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
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