Glossed Pauline Epistles
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf + 60 fols. + i paper flyleaf, 235 x 135 (170 x 82) mm, 26 – 33 long lines, ruled in hard point, written above top line, quire signatures, leaves lost after fols. 8 and 60, fol. 29 cut off and re-sewn.
BINDING: eighteenth-century, blind- and gold-tooled calf over pasteboards
CONTENTS: fols. 1v – 60r Glossed Pauline Epistles, with prologues
fol. 60v Apocalypse i:1 – 6.
ORNAMENTATION: Red and orange initial [A, 9 ll.] with foliate motif in black for Apc. (fol. 60v); red initials [2 – 4 ll.] with reserved ornament for main text divisions on fols. 30r – 60r; display script in red highlighted in orange for rubric to Apc. (fol. 60v); capitals highlighted in red or yellow; spaces left blank for initials [2 – 10 ll.] and rubrics on fols. 1v – 29r, occasionally containing underdrawings in plummet.
History note: Guglielmo Libri (1803 – 1869); his sale, Christie’s, London, 7 February 1895, lot 60; Frank McClean (1837 – 1904); his bequest, 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
12th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1150
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS McClean 27
Primary reference Number: 170698
Project ID: 14
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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