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MS. Douce 314

Summary Catalogue no.: 21888

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 505 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 215 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 37 lines, column space 180–183 × 60 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in 1473 by Fr. Lazarus de Lamesa for the convent of S. Maria dei Servi, Venice, fol. 505.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 507, pl. XLVIII:

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

History

Origin: 1473 ; Italian, Venice

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 (1970).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 591

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 473
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 260

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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