IDENTIFIERS
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id:	177353
accession number:	MS McClean 119

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 24 August 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:  Parchment, iii modern parchment flyleaves + 185 fols. (foliated i-ii and 1-183, fols. i-ii and 181-182 added in the thirteenth century, fol. 183 originally a flyleaf, some contemporary repairs) + iii modern parchment flyleaves, 273 x 172-179 mm (201-215 x 124-134 mm), two columns, 30-34 lines, ruled in plummet, crayon and hard point, written above top line (apart from fols. 180-182), alphabetical quire marks, running headers, catchwords, modern repairs to fols. i–ii and 1–2.

BINDING: twentieth century, quarter bound red goat and parchment over wooden boards, by W.H. Smith (signed WHS inside lower cover).

CONTENTS:
fols. i recto – ii verso Capitula for Sermons 1-64 (thirteenth- or fourteenth-century addition)
fols. 1r–2r Ambrose, Explanatio psalmorum xii (excerpt, unfinished, fol. 1r–1v erased)
fols. 2r – 179v Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones super Cantica canticorum (Sermons 1-64)
fols. 179v and 183r Theological tract, Dum caro menti (thireenth-century addition)
fols. 180r–182v Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo 65 (thirteenth-century addition)

ORNAMENTATION: Two zoomorphic initials [4 ll.] in light brown ink and red for Sermons 5 and 14 (fols. 10v, 41v); red initials [2-9 ll.] with yellow wash, blank partitions, and penwork in red and brown ink (probably added later), occasionally with foliate and geometric motifs or bird-heads (fols. 7r, 37r), for most of Sermons 1-23; red, orange, yellow, blue, pink and green initials [2-17 ll.] with geometric and foliate motifs, some set on square grounds, occasionally with penwork in red and brown ink (probably added later), for most of Sermons 24-64; red initial [2 ll.] with pen flourishing (thirteenth-century addition) for Sermon 65 (fol. 180r); red penwork one-line initials for Capitula; display script in red or blue ink, occasionally highlighted in yellow and red, for text following some initials, and the closing formulas of Sermons; sketch of initial (fol. 65v).
title:	other

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Made at the Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria di Chiaravalle della Colomba in the diocese of Piacenza (ex libris in a near contemporary hand on fol. 179v: Liber sancte marie de columba); Francesco Giovio (1796-1873); U. Hoepli, Milan, catalogue 83 (1883), no. 15; probably bought from him in Milan by Frank McClean (1837-1904); his bequest, 1904.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books
collection:	Frank McClean

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/177353

PEOPLE
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McClean, Frank
Hoepli, U.
Giovio, Francesco
Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria di Chiaravalle della Col




TECHNIQUES
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penwork
TECHNIQUES
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illumination

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1150 - 1199
creation date earliest:	1150
creation date latest:	1199
culture:	12th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Bernard of Clairvaux


CITATIONS
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Biblioteche e Scrittoi Benedettini nella storia culturale della diocesi Ambrosiana: Appunti ed Episodi
Dopo Bernardo: biblioteche e "scriptoria" cistercensi dell'Italia settentrionale nel XII secolo
A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Les peintures de la Bible de Morimondo.
Recueil d'etudes sur saint Bernard et ses ecrits, vol. 1
A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula
Cistertian Manuscripts in England
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