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

MS. Douce 303

Summary Catalogue no.: 21877

Contents

Lancelot Cycle, Branch 1
Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 114 leaves, in double columns
Dimensions (binding): 11 × 8.375 in.

Decoration

Defaced.Pächt and Alexander i. 572:

Good historiated border.

Good miniatures.

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials.

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

Louis César de La Baume le Blanc (1708-1780), duc de La Vallière: sale (1783) no. 3993.

Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna (d. 1792): sale, Amsterdam, 1790 (Douce Legacy, p. 136).

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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (7 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent and leaf dimensions from Summary Catalogue.