IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 184065 accession number: MS McClean 113 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 2 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern parchment flyleaves + 114 fols. (early brown ink foliation) + i medieval parchment flyleaf + iii modern parchment flyleaves, 342 x 222 mm (245 x 140 mm), two columns, 32 lines, ruled in plummet, written above top line, numerical quire marks in red ink, running headers BINDING: twentieth century, stiff board vellum CONTENTS: fols. 1v-5r Remigius of Auxerre, In Matthaeum fols. 5r – 7r Capitula for St Matthew’s Gospel fols. 7r – 114r St Jerome, Commentum in Matthaeum, with Prologue, fols. 7r–9r ORNAMENTATION: Ornamental initials [1-29 ll.] in blue, green, red and yellow wash, with geometric and foliate motifs partly embedded within blank sections of the letter, for the Prologue to St Matthew’s Gospel (fol. 1v), St Jerome’s Commentary (fol. 7r), and its books (fols. 9r, 36r, 60v, 87r); ornamental initials [1-3 ll.] in red, light blue or green, some with minor geometric and foliate motifs, occasionally with penwork decoration in contrasting colour, for the rubric to Capitula (fol. 5r), the Prologue to St Jerome’s Commentary (fol. 7r), and for its lesser divisions; one-line initials in red, light blue or green, for minor text divisions and occasional running headers; display script [1-3 ll.] in red, light blue and occasionally green, with minor ornamentation in the same or contrasting colour, for text following initials to the Prologues to St Matthew’s Gospel (fol. 1v), to St Jerome’s Commentary (fol. 7r), to Bks II and III (fols. 36r, 60v), and for the ex libris (fol. 114v); numerical quire marks in red or black, occasionally framed and ornamented; paraph marks in red, occasionally pen-flourished. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Written and illuminated in the Cistercian Abbey of Morimondo, diocese of Milan (fol. 114v, ex libris in the same hand as the rubrics: Liber sancte marie de morimundo; no. 13 in the twelfth-century library inventory; Leclercq 1961, 177, no. 13, Item iheronimus super matheum); remained in the Abbey until at least the fifteenth century, as revealed by two ex libris, the first on the recto of the rear parchment flyleaf, written upside-down in a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century hand: Liber Sancte Marie de Morimundo ordinis cysterciensis. Medioleni (sic) diocesis, the second on fol. 1r in an Italian hand of the fifteenth century: Liber Sancte Marie de Morimundo Mediolanus Diocesis / Siquis furatus eum fuerit Anathema sit No x vijii; possibly part of the collection of Francesco Giovio (1796-1873) (Ferrari 1993, 299); U. Hoepli, Milan, catalogue no. 83 (1883), no. 61; bought from him in Milan by Frank McClean (1837-1904) in 1892; 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/184065 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Hoepli, U. Giovio, Francesco Cistercian Abbey of Morimondo TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1170 - 1180 creation date earliest: 1170 creation date latest: 1180 culture: 12th Century, second half# CREATORS -------- maker: St Jerome EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J.R. Abbey. 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 Die illuminierten lateinischen Handschriften sued-, west, und nordeuropaeischer Provenienz in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin PK: 4. - 12. Jahrhundert. A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Textes et manuscrits cisterciens dans des bibliothèques des Etats-Unis 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 Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion ---