MS. Douce 30
Summary Catalogue no.: 21604
Contents
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'
Physical Description
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
Record Sources
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:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2023-11-10: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)