MS. Douce 327
Summary Catalogue no.: 21901
Contents
Followed by:
Added, early 15th century. Temporale (fol. 103v), mutilated at the beginning; sanctorale (fol. 105); common of the saints (fol. 105vc); votive masses (fol. 106ra); order of the lessons at matins of the dead (fol. 106rc). A contemporary hand marked the liturgical gospels in the margins (fols. 4ff., 8ff., 15, 18v, 21v, etc.) and sometimes the epistles (fols. 75v, 76v, 79v, 85); another (?) hand added some pericopes in the Epistles of St. Paul (fols. 48vff., 53vff., 58vff., 61vff., 63vff.; see 97 ff.).
Physical Description
Layout
2 col. of 52 lines, 188 × 115 mm.
List in 3 col. of 52 lines, 260 × 160 mm.
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander i. 556:
Good borders.
Good historiated initials.
Good other initials (at the beginning of each prologue, Gospel and Epistle). Fol. 1 has 16 initials cut from an Old Testament, probably that belonging with this MS., pasted on it. ()
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'John Corbett pictor, Ejus liber Anno Domini Deus MDCXIV'.
'Ex libris Caesaris De Missy: Londini: Anno Domini M. DCC. XLVI. Codex G.': César de Missy (1703–1775).
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.