MS. Douce 253
Summary Catalogue no.: 21827
Contents
French calendar (fol. 1); Capitula from the Gospels (fol. 13); genealogy of Christ (with Jesse tree miniature: fol. 18); and prayers Obsecro te (fol. 20) and O intemerata (fol. 23v); Office of the Virgin (fol. 28) Hours of the Cross (fol. 75); Hours of the Holy Spirit (fol. 78); the Penitential psalms (fol. 82) with litany (fol. 94); Office for the Dead (fol. 100); the Fifteen Joyes in French (fol. 134); the Seven Requestes in French (fol. 140). Added devotions: for the Holy Souls (fol. 143), Salve[sic] Mater dolorosa (fol. 146v) and suffrages (fol. 148v), etc.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
15 long lines
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander i. 753, Pl. LVIII. Related to the group of manuscripts attributed by Paul Durrieu to Jacques de Besançon made for Jacques d'Armagnac, such as Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 2629 (Pächt and Alexander i. 753, Pl. LVIII). Attributed to the Master of the Echevinage de Rouen, also known as the Master of the Geneva Latini, in François Avril and Nicole Reynaud Les manuscrits à peintures en France: 1440–1520 (Paris: Flammarion; Bibliothèque nationale, 1995). See also MS. Douce 77.
Fine miniatures (glazed over).
Binding
Red leather with gold ornament (18th century work)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Written for a lady who is kneeling before the Virgin and holding a scroll which reads 'O mater. dei. memento. mei.', fol. 134r
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (13 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09-19: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897) and other printed catalogues