IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170719 accession number: MS McClean 95 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf + 184 fols. (fol. 184 pasted onto modern paper flyleaf) + i paper flyleaf, 179 x 128 (90 x 62) mm, 20 long lines, ruled in black ink. BINDING: nineteenth century, red morocco over wooden boards. CONTENTS:fols. 2r – 13v Calendar; fols. 15r – 45v Hours of the Virgin; fols. 47r – 66v Hours of the Cross; fols. 69r – 90v Hours of the Holy Spirit; fols. 91r – 109v Hours of the Eternal Wisdom; fols. 111r – 118v Penitential Psalms; fols. 118v – 128r Litany with collects; fols. 130r – 160r Office of the Dead; fols. 161r – 161v Agnus Dei (begins imperfectly); fols. 161v – 162r Beginning of Gospel of St John; fols. 163r – 180v Meditations on the Passion. DECORATION: Five full-page framed miniatures with full acanthus and floral borders containing human figures, birds, dragons, and biblical scenes: fol. 14v Hours of the Virgin, Matins, Annunciation, dove and infant Christ flying in from window, in border God between angels, Gideon and the Golden fleece, Moses at the Burning Bush, Rebecca and Eleazar; fol. 46v Hours of the Cross, Crucifixion with Virgin supported by St John, Holy Woman, and Jews; fol. 68v Hours of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost; fol. 110v Penitential Psalms, Last Judgement, Christ sitting on rainbow, feet on globe, sword and lily at head, Virgin and St John the Baptist interceding, two angels blowing trumpets above; fol. 129v Office of the Dead, Souls in Abraham’s bosom flanked by a saintly priest and angel holding candles, in border stag and Pelican in her piety. Three historiated initials in blue with white acanthus ornament on gold grounds and full acanthus and floral borders including grotesques and biblical scenes, for most of the major text divisions: fol. 15r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, [H, 11 ll.] Virgin and Child surrounded by the Trinity, in border Jesse Tree with twelve kings and Christ between angels on top; fol. 91r Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, [M, 10 ll.] Christ standing and holding orb and open book, adoring angels in border; fol. 111r Penitential Psalms, [H, 10 ll.] David penitent, in border David fighting lion and bear, David slaying at Goliath, and David returning with Goliath’s head. ORNAMENTATION: Blue initials [10 ll.] with white acanthus ornament and foliage infill on gold grounds, three-sided bar borders in gold, blue and pink, and full or three-sided acanthus and floral borders including birds, grotesques, a woman (fol. 15v), Annunciation of the Birth of Mary to Joachim (fol. 22r), a Pelican in her piety (fol. 47r), for remaining major text divisions (fols. 47r, 69r, 130r); blue and red parted initial [D, 7 ll.] with pen-flourished infill, extensions, and full border with green highlighting (fol. 163r); gold initials [2 – 3 ll.] on blue and red white-patterned grounds with bar border extending into gold-leaf spraywork in upper and lower margins and occasional three-sided spraywork and floral borders, that on fol. 22r including Angel appearing to Joachim in the field; alternate gold and blue one-line initials with violet and red pen-flourised infill and extensions; capitals highlighted in red; gold and blue geometric line-fillers. title: book of hours NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878), Ashburnham Appendix no. LXI; purchased from him by Henry Yates Thompson (1838 – 1928) in May 1897; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 1 May 1899, lot 20; purchased by 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/170719 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Thompson, Henry Yates Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878) TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1480 - 1490 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1490 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Grote, Geert maker: Master of the KOG Book of Hours CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum La miniature hollandaise dans les manuscrits des 14e, 15e et 16e siècles De Noord-Nederlandsche schilderkunst Maria Immaculata. Een Illustratie van de Onbevlekte Ontvangenis in een Noordnederlands Getijdenboek De Noordhollandse verluchter Spierinck: Haarlem en/of Beverwijk, ca. 1485-1519 The North Holland Illuminator Spierinck: Some Attributions Reconsidered Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen: Randversiering in de Noordnederlandse handschriften uit de vijftiende eeuw Boekschilderkunst in laat-middeleeuwse handschriften van Amsterdamse origine? De aankoop van een getijdenboek voor de universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam 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/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f014v_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 523 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/mid_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f014v_29.jpg height: 727 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f014v_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 523 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/preview_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f014v_29.jpg height: 363 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f015r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 530 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/mid_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f015r_29.jpg height: 717 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f015r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 530 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/preview_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f015r_29.jpg height: 358 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f091r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 516 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/mid_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f091r_29.jpg height: 736 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f091r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 516 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/preview_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f091r_29.jpg height: 368 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f111r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 538 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/mid_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f111r_29.jpg height: 706 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f111r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 538 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/preview_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f111r_29.jpg height: 353 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f129v_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 503 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/mid_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f129v_29.jpg height: 755 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f129v_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 503 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb2/preview_MS_20McClean_2095_20_28f129v_29.jpg height: 378 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/347/large_MS_McClean_95_ff14v_15r_mas.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/347/mid_MS_McClean_95_ff14v_15r_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/347/MS_McClean_95_ff14v_15r_mas.jpg height: 4008 pixels width: 5344 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/347/preview_MS_McClean_95_ff14v_15r_mas.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/724/347/MS_McClean_95_ff14v_15r_mas.ptif height: 4008 pixels width: 5344 pixels