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MS. Douce 365

Summary Catalogue no.: 21940

Contents

1.
Abbaye du Saint Esprit
Language(s): Middle French
2.
Traité sur le service et l'amour de Dieu
Language(s): Middle French
3.
Pierre de Luxembourg, Jardin de dévotion
Language(s): Middle French
4.
Du gouvernement quotidien
Language(s): Middle French
5.
Traité des tribulations (French adaptation of Ps.-Peter of Blois, De XII utilitatibus tribulationis)
Language(s): Middle French
6.
Gerard of Liège (?), De doctrina cordis (French translation)
Language(s): Middle French
7.
Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum (French translation)
Language(s): Middle French
8.
Martin of Braga, Formula uitae honestae (French translation by Jean Courtecuisse)
Language(s): Middle French
9.
Miroir des pecheurs (French adaptation of Ps.-Bernard, Speculum peccatoris)
Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 274 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 368 × 262 mm.

Layout

1 col., 27 lines, 230–238 × 150–155 mm.

Hand(s)

By the Master of Mary of Burgandy. Written by David Aubert.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 352, pl. XXVII:

Important miniatures.

Important borders.

Binding

Stamped leather on boards, with metal corners, bosses and clasps lost, contemporary Flemish work, rebacked.

History

Origin: 1475 ; Flemish

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. 606
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 607

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (7 images from 35mm slides)

Microfilm

Microfilm available in the open shelf collections in the Weston Library (R. Films 101)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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