MS. Douce 102
Summary Catalogue no.: 21676
Contents
Book of Hours, Use of Troyes
Rubric: Hore de Nostra Domina
(fol. 1)
Calendar in French (fol. 13)
Pericopes from the gospels (fol. 24)
Hours 'de Sancto Spiritu' (fol. 28)
Office of the Virgin (fol. 85v)
Obsecro te and O intemerata (fol. 90) (fol. 93)
Penitential Psalms with litany (fol. 116)
Office for the Dead (fol. 167)
Rubric: Les xv Ioies
Title for the Fifteen Joys which are missing.
Perhaps more once followed, leaves being lost after fol. 167
Language(s): Latin and Middle French
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 171 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 92 × 65 mm.
Dimensions (binding): 8.75 × 6.375 in.
Condition
Imperfect at the end
Layout
12 long lines
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander i. 646, Pl. LI. Related to the Troyes Hours, Paris BN Lat. 924.
Fine miniatures ("The miniature of the Office for the Dead is peculiar", Summary Catalogue)
Borders
Initials.
Binding
Red velvet
History
Provenance and Acquisition
In the prayer O intemerata there is the female form of address (fol. 90v); in the Obsecro the masculine (fol. 98).
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Record Sources
Description adapted (May 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the following sources:
Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 121
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840), p. 15
Summary Catalogue (1897)
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-05-22: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897) and other printed spurces