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MS. Douce 10

Summary Catalogue no.: 21584

Contents

Breviary (extracts for private use)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: v +315 + iii fols. (foliated 1-28, I-CCC)
Dimensions (leaf): 99 × 65 mm.

Layout

1 col., 18 lines, 75 × 43 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 859, pl. LXIII:

Fine miniatures and drawings.

Fine borders.

Fine initials.

Binding

Red velvet, about A.D. 1800.

History

Origin: 1563 (date given on fol. 121) ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 492

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 448
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 342

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.