IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170707 accession number: MS McClean 42 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern paper flyleaves + 236 fols. (foliated i – vi, 2 – 231) + iii modern paper flyleaves, 105 x 70 (67 x 48) mm, 16 long lines, ruled in faint black ink, leaves lost before fols. 2 and 200 BINDING: 1994, dark brown goat skin over acid-free mill-boards, by Annie Winther; previous fifteenth-century binding with pastedowns, flyleaves, and tag with Crucifixion woodcut, preserved with manuscript, blind-stamped brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on 4 supports, fleurs-de-lys stamps within lozenges, leather strap and metal clasp on upper cover, catchplate on lower cover. CONTENTS: fols. i recto – vi verso Calendar; fols. 2r – 199v Psalter, Gallican (begins imperfectly) ; fols. 200r – 219r Canticles (begin imperfectly), Te deum, Quicumque vult; fols. 219r – 223r Litany with collects; fols. 223v – 229v Office of the Dead; fol. 229v Confession prayer and alphabet. DECORATION: Twelve medallions with Labours of the Month in Calendar: fol. i recto Jan., Warming by fire; fol. i verso, Feb., Woman with two tapers; fol. ii recto March, Pruning trees; fol. ii verso April, Maying; fol. iii recto May, Man with falcon; fol. iii verso June Man carrying bundle; fol. iv recto July Mowing; fol. iv verso Aug., Reaping; fol. v recto Sept., Picking fruit; fol. v verso Oct., Sowing; fol. vi recto Nov., Threshing acorns for pigs; fol. vi verso Dec., Killing pig. Nine historiated initials in white-patterned blue or pink on gold grounds, with branches and foliate extensions supporting or terminating into human figures and hybrids, and forming full borders: fol. 31v Psalm 26, [D, 10 ll.] Apostle with blank scroll; fol. 51v Psalm 38, [D, 10 ll.] St Andrew holding saltire cross; fol. 69r Psalm 51, [Q, 9 ll.] St Paul holding cross; fol. 70v Psalm 52, [D, 9 ll.] St Peter holding key; fol. 88v Psalm 68, [S, 10 ll.] Apostle with blank scroll; fol. 111r Psalm 80, [E, 9 ll.] Apostle asleep; fol. 132r Psalm 97, [C, 9 ll.] Martyr holding palm branch; fol. 135r Psalm 101, [D, 9 ll.] Apostle pointing at upwards and downwards; fol. 154r Psalm 109, [D, 10 ll.] St Bartholomew holding knife. Woodcut hand-coloured initial with Crucifixion and beginning of the Canon of the Mass excised from an early printed Missal and used as a tag pasted on former flyleaf (preserved within manuscript box). ORNAMENTATION: Gold initials [3 ll.] on blue and pink white-patterned grounds, with bar extensions, for ordinary Psalms, Canticles, Litany and Office of the Dead; alternate gold and blue one-line initials with blue or red pen-flourished infill and extensions; blue and red pen-work line-fillers with gold balls. title: psalter NOTES ----- type: history note value: given by Mrs Elizabeth Heathcote to Samuel Pegge in 1779 (ownership inscription, fol. i recto); not identified in the sales of Samuel Pegge’s library, 12 Nov. 1792, 29 March 1798, 12 Nov. 1800; lot 258 in an unidentified Sotheby’s sale, as reported by James 1912, 82 (no extant inscription or cutting from sale catalogue); 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/170707 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Pegge, Samuel TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1250 - 1275 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1275 culture: 13th Century, third quarter CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Die Psalterillustration im 13 Jahrundert. Studien zur Geschichte der Buchmalerei in England, Frankreich und den Niederlanden Flemish Psalters in the Apostolic Tradition Thirteenth-Century Illumination in Bruges and Ghent 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 ---