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MS. Douce 290

Summary Catalogue no.: 21864

Physical Description

Composite: three parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

MS. Douce 290 – Part 1

Contents

E. Price, The Tragecall Historie of Charles and Julia (with other poems probably by Price)
Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 16th century ; English

MS. Douce 290 – Part 2

Contents

Herbal with recipes
Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

MS. Douce 290 – Part 3

Contents

Chronicle of England (Brut chronicle) to 1419 (imperfect at beginning and end; Lister M. Matheson, The Prose Brut (1990), pp. 116–7))
Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 581

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas 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.