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MS. Douce 257

Summary Catalogue no.: 21831

Contents

1.
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus
Language(s): Latin
2.
Alexander de Villa Dei, Massa compoti
Language(s): Latin
3.
Liber cautelarum septem scientiarum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 99 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 132 mm.

Layout

1 col., 23-33 lines, c. 135–145 × 83–104 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1146:

Sketches added on fol. 99 to a MS. of 1381.

History

Origin: 1381; decoration, 15th century, second half ; English

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 (1973).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 569
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 570

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 467

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.