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MS. Douce 305

Summary Catalogue no.: 21879

Contents

1.
Jean Galopes, Le pelerinage de l'ame en prose (prose version of Guillaume de Diguleville, Pelerinage de l'ame)
Language(s): Middle French
2.
Ps.-Aristotle, Secreta secretorum (French translation)
Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 1-81 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 212 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 28-36 lines, c. 178-185 × 125-135 mm.

Hand(s)

Fols. 1–80 written by G. de Pacy, escolastre and canon of St. Peter, Lille , in 1435.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 312, pl. XXV:

Good coloured drawings.

History

Origin: 1435; additions, 15th century, late ; Flemish, Lille (?)

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 (1966).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 587

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (61 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.