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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

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; France

Provenance and Acquisition

In the prayer O intemerata there is the female form of address (fol. 90v); in the Obsecro the masculine (fol. 98).

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

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)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 522

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

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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

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