IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170698 accession number: MS McClean 27 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Guglielmo Libri (1803 – 1869); his sale, Christie’s, London, 7 February 1895, lot 60; Frank McClean (1837 – 1904); his bequest, 1904. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Frank McClean STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/170698 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Libri, Guglielmo TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1150 - 1150 creation date earliest: 1150 creation date latest: 1150 culture: 12th Century, Mid CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum 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 ---