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MS. Douce 11

Summary Catalogue no.: 21585

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
(fol. 1)
Calendar
Book of Hours
Rubric: Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum Curiam Romanam
(fol. 112)
Mass of the Virgin
(fol. 123)
Penitential Psalms with litany and prayers
(fol. 177)
Rubric: Officium mortuorum
(fol. 241)
Rubric: Offitium omnium Sanctorum
(fol. 247)
Rubric: Officium Sancte Crucis
(fol. 254v)
Rubric: Officium Sancti Spiritus
(fol. 266v)
Psalterium breuiatum sancti Hieronymi presbiteri

The rubrics are often in Italian.

Language(s): Italian and Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 290 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 4.125 × 3.125 in.
Dimensions (leaf): 98 × 74 mm.
Dimensions (written): 53 × 37 mm.

Layout

13 long lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 565, Pl. LIII: 'by the same hand as the Gratian, pr. Jenson, Venice, 1474, Ferrara, Museo di Schifanoia, and the Apparatus on the Decretals of Innocent IV, pr. Jenson, Venice, 1481, decorated for Petrus Ugelheimer, now Gotha, Landesbibliothek.'

Fine miniatures

Borders

Initials

Binding

Red velvet bindings, marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Perhaps made for Francis Douce, see MSS. Douce 5-6

History

Origin: c. 1480 ; Italy, Venice

Provenance and Acquisition

Douce is recorded as having bought a tiny illuminated 'Officium B.V.M.' for £1. 5s 0d in the Maffeo Pinelli sale in March 1789 which is perhaps identifiable as either MS. Douce 11 or MS. Douce 12 (Douce Legacy, p. 135)

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the following sources:
Douce Legacy (1984), p. 135
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840), p. 2
Summary Catalogue (1897)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 492

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (12 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    Biblissima

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 231

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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 sources