A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Ashmole 828

Summary Catalogue no.: 7451

Contents

Lancelot Cycle, Branch 3.
Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniatures.

Historiated borders.

Historiated initials.

Other initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 573, pl. XLIII)

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; French

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. H. Black, A descriptive, analytical, and critical catalogue of the manuscripts bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole Esq...., Quarto Catalogues X, 1845). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (113 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.