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MS. Douce 149

Summary Catalogue no.: 21723

Contents

Vegetius, De re militari

French translation by Jean de Meun

Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. list, p. 72)

History

Origin: 13th century, end ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

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 (1966).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 538

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas 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.