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
Good borders, historiated and other initials. Fol. 1 has 16 initials cut from an Old Testament, probably that belonging with this MS., pasted on it. (P&A i. 556)
Illuminated initials at the beginning of each prologue, Gospel and Epistle.
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.