MS. Add. D. 39

Summary Catalogue no.: 30297

Willelmus Durandus, Rationale divinorum officiorum

Colophon: (fol. 218v) explicit ... Completus nec non initus liber iste per me Iacobum henrici filium de traiecto inferiori [Utrecht] Anno domini 1451 die mercurij profesti sancte agnetis etc.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 218 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 440 × 290 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 265 × 70 mm. , 60 lines.

Decoration

Fine borders, initials. Close in style to MS. Add. D. 10. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 489)

Illuminated initial, border and coat of arms; coloured initials, rubrics. The arms are gules, a closet nebuly argent between three roses of the last.

History

Origin: 1451 ; Italian, Venice (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired before about 1878.

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, Pächt and Alexander, and the Summary Catalogue (1905).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 782

Bibliography

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 28

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 489

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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