MS. Douce 131

Summary Catalogue no.: 21705

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Important miniatures, historiated and other borders and initials. By a main hand and assistants. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 590, pl. LXII-LXIII)

Binding

Stamped leather by 'H.I.' i.e. Henry Jacobi of London, 1505-12: the back is modern.

History

Origin: c. 1340–8 (?) ; English, East Anglia

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. 165–74. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 531

Availability

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (20 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. 52

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.

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