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Saints' Lives
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTON: Parchment, i contemporary flyleaf (lifted pastedown) + 179 fols. + i contemporary flyleaf (lifted pastedown), 385 x 260 (290 x 176) mm, two columns, 41 long lines, ruled in plummet, leaf lost after fol. 2.
BINDING: fifteenth century, blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on four supports, braided parchment endbands, two catchplates on lower cover, traces of two fixing plates for straps or clasps on upper cover, traces of 5 round bosses on each cover, leather tabs; repaired and rebacked.
CONTENTS: fol. 1r List of contents; fols. 1r – 2v De Inventione Sanguinis Domini; fols. 3r – 169r Lives of Sts Gregory, Ambrose, Sigismund, Walburga, Athanasius, Boniface martyr, Victor, Gangolf, Pudens and Pudentiana, Boniface eps., Barnabas, Alban, Gallicanus, Seven Sleepers, Goar, Pantaleon, Christopher, Pelagius, Egidius, Jerome, 11,000 Virgins, Pirmin, Eucharius, Valerius and Maternus ; fols. 169r – 178v Summa de divinis officiis; fol. 179v De translatione sanguinis Christi.
DECORATION: Two initials formed of saints’ figures: fol. 101v Life of St Athanasius, [I, 8 ll.] St Athanasius; fol. 157r Life of St Pirmin, [I, 12 ll.] St Pirmin.
ORNAMENTATION: Red, yellow and green initials [5 – 16 ll.] formed of foliate, zoomorphic and geometric motifs, filled with white foliage scrollwork on blue, green, grey and red grounds, and often extending into hybrid monsters, for Saints’s Lives; initial on fol. 94v (Passion of St Sigismund) contains four lions, one clothed holding cup, another taking pill; red initials [1 – 7 ll.] with foliate ornament.
History note: Benedictine abbey of St Martin in Weingarten (partially erased thirteenth-century ex-libris on fol. 179r); year 1628 recorded in partially erased inscription on fol. 1r; still in Weingarten when the abbey was dissolved in 1802 (recorded in catalogue of c.1802; Irtenkauf 1978, 348); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792 – 1872), his MS 4182; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 6 June 1898, lot 1134; purchased by Frank McClean (1836 – 1904); his bequest, 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
13th Century, Early
Production date:
circa
AD 1200
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS McClean 101
Primary reference Number: 170722
Project ID: 38
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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Accession Number: MS 370
Accession Number: PD.1-2018
Accession Number: 565A
Accession Number: M/P.11-1938
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