MS. Douce 215

Summary Catalogue no.: 21789

Language(s): Old French

Lancelot Cycle, Branches 3, 4, 5 (fragments; the former Phillipps MSS. 1047 and 3630, and Manchester, John Rylands Library, fr. 1, are from the same manuscript: see JONAS)

Lancelot en prose

Queste del saint Graal

Mort Artu

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iii + 49 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 16.25 × 11.625 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 571, pl. XLIII:

Fine miniatures.

Fine historiated borders.

Fine initials.

Fine miniatures added on fols. 3v and 32, 15th century begining, by the School of the Boucicaut Master.

History

Origin: c. 1300; added miniatures, early 15th century ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

Louis César de la Baume-le-Blanc (1708-1780), duc de la Vallière; sale, 1783/4, no. 4006; cf. Guillaume de Bure, Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. le duc de la Vallière (Paris: Guillaume de Bure, 1783)

Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna (d. 1792); sale, 1790, no. 5138.

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834