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MS. Douce 188

Summary Catalogue no.: 21762

Contents

2.
Jean de Meung, Testament
Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i.654:

Drawings completely overpainted in 18th century (?).

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; 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. 548

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (25 images from 35mm slides)

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.