MS. Douce 118

Summary Catalogue no.: 21692

Psalter ('The Aspremont Psalter')

Companion volume of a Book of Hours ('the Aspremont Psalter-Hours'), now in Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine historiated borders and initials, and other initials. Signature of illuminator 'Nicolaus', fol. 142. (P&A i. 554, pl. XLII)

History

Origin: c. 1290-1310 ; French, Lorraine (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757-1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Summary description based on Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 297-305. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 527

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (225 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas/Mapping Manuscript Migrations Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.'

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