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MS. Douce 110

Summary Catalogue no.: 21684

Contents

1.
Canonical Epistles
Language(s): Latin
2.
Ecclesiastes
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 90 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 140 mm.

Layout

1 col., 20 lines, 137 × 80 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script by Peter Meghen for Christopher Urswick dean of Windsor .

Decoration

Imitating Flemish style. Pächt and Alexander iii. 1173, pl. CVIII:

Good borders.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 1504 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Written for Christopher Urswick dean of Windsor .

Owned in the 16th cent. by 'Philipe Morice' (fol. 3).

Michael Lort: his sale, April 1791, lot 6659 (Douce Legacy, no. 86).

Owned in 1797 by Michael Wodhull, whose arms are on the binding. Lot 359 in his sale of duplicates, 3 March 1801, bought by Cumming for 5s. 6d. (Douce Legacy, no. 86).

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 (1973).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 524
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 525

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 456

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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