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MS. Douce 276

Summary Catalogue no.: 21850

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iv + 141 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 7.875 × 5.25 in.
Dimensions (leaf): 193 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 110 × 67 mm.

Layout

21 long lines

Decoration

Good miniatures.

Borders.

Initials. By several different hands. (Pächt and Alexander i. 829, pl. LX)

Binding

Red leather with the arms of Le Fèvre de Caumartin (18th cent., French).

History

Origin: 16th century, beginning ; French, North

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. 577

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (61 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Typescript description by Caitlin Hartigan (unpublished) kept at REFS. CXLII. 6
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 209

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.