IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 178878 accession number: MS McClean 139 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf pasted to green leather + 311 fols. (foliated i-iv, 1-307) + i paper flyleaf pasted to green leather, 398 x 250 mm (360 x 230 mm), two columns of main text 210 x 120 mm, 38-42 lines, surrounded by varying number of gloss lines on two, three or four sides, ruled in plummet, running headers, catchwords, pecia marks. BINDING: Eighteenth century, gold-tooled calf over pasteboards. CONTENTS: fols. i verso – ii recto Johannes Bassianus, Arbor actionum; fols. iii recto and iv verso Fragments from a title list fols. 1r-73v Justinian, Institutiones with Accursius, Apparatus ad Institutiones; fols. 74r-211v Justinian, Authenticum with Accursius, Apparatus ad Authenticum; fols. 212r-283r Justinian, Tres libri with Accursius, Apparatus ad Tres libros; fols. 284r-307v Libri feudorum with Accursius, Apparatus ad Libros feudorum. DECORATION: Two full-page framed tables of the Arbor actionum containing 180 medallions classifying praetorian lawsuits on the left (verso) and civil suits on the right (recto), with two figures (female on the verso, male on the recto) standing in the inner margins and holding onto the tables’ frames (fols. i verso – ii recto). ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initials [3 ll.] with simple red pen flourishing for titles on fols. 212r-283r only, spaces left blank for initials, with guide letters visible, in the rest of the text; red penwork one-line initials; alternate red and blue paraph marks; blue and bronze bars added probably in the early modern period to the title list (fols. iii recto and iv verso), the one on fol. iii recto extending into a heavy bunch of fruit; similar foliage and fruit ornament added at some of the major text divisions where the original campaign left blank spaces for large initials or small column miniatures (e.g. fol. 212r); blue, green and bronze colouring added to the tables of the Arbor actionum and to some of the blue penwork initials. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased of Hoepli. 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/178878 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1300 - 1300 creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1300 culture: 13th Century, Late-14th Century, Early EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections CITATIONS -------- Der Handschriften zum romischen Recht Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections 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 Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula La miniatura in Italia, I: Dal tardoantico al Trecento con riferimenti al Medio Oriente e all' Occidente europeo. --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20139_20_28iir_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20139_20_28iir_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20139_20_28iir_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_20139_20_28iir_29.jpg height: 391 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20139_20_28iv_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20139_20_28iv_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20139_20_28iv_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_20139_20_28iv_29.jpg height: 391 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20139_20_28233r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 509 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_20139_20_28233r_29.jpg height: 766 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20139_20_28233r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 509 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_20139_20_28233r_29.jpg height: 383 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/722/979/large_MS_McClean_139_fiv_iir_mas.jpg height: 875 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/722/979/mid_MS_McClean_139_fiv_iir_mas.jpg height: 427 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/722/979/MS_McClean_139_fiv_iir_mas.jpg height: 4219 pixels width: 4940 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/722/979/preview_MS_McClean_139_fiv_iir_mas.jpg height: 214 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/722/979/MS_McClean_139_fiv_iir_mas.ptif height: 4219 pixels width: 4940 pixels