MS. Douce 118
Summary Catalogue no.: 21692
Contents
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. (Pächt and Alexander i. 554, pl. XLII)
Binding
Panels containing flowers, dragons, pelicans, etc., French (?) 15th cent. (?), on leather covering boards.
History
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.
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (225 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 77
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.