A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Douce 270

Summary Catalogue no.: 21844

Contents

1.
Calendar
Language(s): Latin
2.
Maurice de Sully, Sermons
Language(s): Old French
3.
Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarium (French translation)
Language(s): Old French
4.
Wace, Life of St. Nicholas
Language(s): Anglo-Norman

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i+ 105 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 187 × 127 mm.

Layout

1 cols., 29-30 lines, 125 × 67 mm.

Fols. 93v-105: 2 cols., 30 lines, column space 117 × c. 35 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 221, pl. XXII:

Fine historiated initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English, Durham

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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

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