IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207637 accession number: MS McClean 33 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 15 January 2016 updated: Tuesday 18 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern parchment flyleaf + 166 fols. + i modern parchment flyleaf, 150 x 248 mm (138 x 175 mm, main text 59 x 175 mm), 19 long lines of main text, written above top line, ruled in hard point BINDING: nineteenth century, half leather and marbled paper over pasteboards SECUNDO FOLIO: quare fremuerunt (fol. 3r) CONTENTS: fols. 1r-2r Preface to the Psalms, beginning Ebraice liber est intulatur liber ymnorum (Stegmüller 1950-1980, nos. 9794, 9848, 10474) fols. 2r-156r Psalms 1-150 with glosses excerpted from the Glossa Ordinaria fols. 156v-166r Canticles fol. 166v Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, excerpt from Book V, par. 6, 15-25 (thirteenth-century addition) SCRIPT: Late Caroline minuscule DECORATION: Historiated initial in red penwork with foliage terminal and blue background: fol. 102v Psalm 109, [D, 5 ll.] Bust of a man. ORNAMENTATION: Zoomorphic inhabited initial in red, blue, green and beige on a bright blue and red ground, incorporating a dragon, beast head and gold interlace terminals, and a man clambering within foliage coils: fol. 2r Psalm 1, [B, 14 ll.]; red penwork initial containing a beast head and griffin: fol. 65r Psalm 68, [S, 4 ll.]; red or blue penwork initials [2-3 ll.], the larger ones marking the eightfold liturgical divisions of the Psalter, but also highlighted are Psalms 21, 33, 41, 50; red and blue display script. title: psalter NOTES ----- type: history note value: Guglielmo Libri (1802-1869); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 28 March 1859, lot 841; Thomas Bateman (1821-1861); to his son and heir, Thomas William Bateman; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 25 May 1893, lot 1411; Frank McClean (1836-1904); 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 creditline: Bequeathed by Frank McClean STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207637 TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- egg tempura TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1125 - 1125 creation date earliest: 1125 creation date latest: 1125 culture: 12th Century CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges - Part Three. France. Vol. 1: France, c.1000-c.1250 A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Splendid Manuscripts chiefly upon Vellum in Various Languages of Europe and the East, formed by M. 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