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MS. Douce 291

Summary Catalogue no.: 21865

Contents

1.
Pedigree of Chalons family to John Chalons (d. 1447)
Language(s): Middle English
2.
Vegetius, De re militari

English translation by John Walton

Language(s): Middle English
3.
Lapidary,

'The boke of Stones'.

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 910, pl. LXXXVI:

Fine border.

Fine initials.

Fine coat of arms added in two stages (?), fols. 1–5, 5v-17.

History

Origin: c. 1445–1447 ; 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. 581
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 582

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (11 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

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.