MS. Douce 160

Summary Catalogue no.: 21734

Epistre de Ysaac: Enuoyee a sa mere Sarra

Rubric: Epistre de Ysaac: Enuoyée a sa mere Sarra

Incipit: Ton filz Ysaac, Sarra treschere mere / Pour tadvertir de sa douleur amere. / Vers toy envoye ceste dolente epistre / Qua bien ose de son gros danger tixtre

Explicit: De ladventure de laigneau macule / Fut adone prins et soudain decole / Feu allume et joye unestimée, / Dont jusque au ciel en monte la fumée

Verse account of the binding of Isaac

Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 16 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 10.25 × 6.875 in.

History

Origin: 16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897) and the Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 541

Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, p. 27

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08-30: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)

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