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MS. Bodl. 850

Summary Catalogue no.: 2604

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (with prayers in English)
Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 11 + 110 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 100 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 22 lines

Decoration

Defaced. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1087, pl. CI)

Good miniatures.

Good borders.

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials

Binding

White parchment with gold ornament on boards, clasps and metal corners lost, English work of the 2nd half of the 16th cent.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; English

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 448

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (21 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 148

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.