MS. Douce 30

Summary Catalogue no.: 21604

Preceded by a calendar (fol. 1)

Followed by: the Hours of the Cross (fol. 48); Penitential Psalms with litany (fol. 53); Office for the Dead (fol. 66); Prayers and suffrages (fol. 93); 'Hore longiores de sancta Cruce seu Passione', the Hours of the Passion (fol. 138); 'Cursus horarum Eterne Sapientiae' (fol. 154); and 'Hore Sancti Spiritus' (fol. 166v)

The hymn 'Ave vivens hostia' (at fol. 101) is stated to be 'edita a fratre Iohanne Pysano archiepiscopo Canthuariensi'

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

iv + 171 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 4.5 × 3.5 in.

Dimensions (leaf): 105 × 80 mm.

Dimensions (written): 61 × 43 mm.

Layout

20 long lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 255, Pl. XVII

Five fine full-page miniatures (fols 17v, 47v, 52v, 65v and 153v) and several smaller miniatures, e.g. fol. 18r

Borders

Initials

Binding

Red leather with gold tooling (17th or 18th century)

History

Origin: c. 1500 ; Netherlands, Utrecht

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (November 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 498

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (20 images from 35mm slides)

Surrogates

H. Shaw, Illuminated Ornaments (1833), no. xvi, has colour images of fol. 47v, 65v

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 125

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.

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