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MS. Douce 319

Summary Catalogue no.: 21893

Contents

Brunetto Latini, Le Livre du Trésor
Rubric: Le liure dou Tresor, le quel translata maistre Brunet Latin de Florence de latin en romanz ...
Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: ici dit de saint Phelipe
Secundo Folio: -leure est
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: xi + 233 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 12 × 8.625 in.
Dimensions (leaf): c. 295 × c. 205 mm.

Layout

Ruled in ink; 2 cols., 32 lines, ruled space c. 185 × 130 mm.

Decoration

Copying French style. Pächt and Alexander ii. 154, pl. XIV:

Fine miniatures.

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

Fine map (fol. 8) and two mappae mundi (fol. 3r)

Diagrams, fols. 2r-v

Pen-flourished initials.

Binding

Green velvet, executed for Douce in 1811 (The Douce Legacy (1984), p. 144).

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

William de Montagu, second earl of Salisbury

Given by him to Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester (erased inscription, fol. 222v)

Presented by William Dupré (Du Pré)to Douce in Oct. 1802 (back pastedown).

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) from the following sources, with additional physical description and reference to published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 154
Summary Catalogue (1897)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 592

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (13 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-03: Additional physical description and information from printed catalogues.