MS. Douce 253

Summary Catalogue no.: 21827

Language(s): Latin and French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniatures (glazed over). Related to the group of MSS. attributed by Durrieu to Jacques de Besançon made for Jacques d'Armagnac (P&A i. 753, pl. LVIII). Attributed to the Master of the Echevinage de Rouen, also known as the Master of the Geneva Latini, in Avril, François and Reynaud, Nicole, Les manuscrits à peintures en France: 1440-1520 (Paris: Flammarion; Bibliothèque nationale, 1995).

History

Origin: c. 1480 ; French, Rouen

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. 568

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 569

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (13 images from 35mm slides)

Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas/Mapping Manuscript Migrations 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.'

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