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MS. Douce 39

Summary Catalogue no.: 21613

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Metz
Language(s): Latin and Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 193 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 5.625 × 4.125 in.
Dimensions (leaf): 132 × 95 mm.
Dimensions (written): 83 × 57 mm.

Layout

12 long lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 605, pl. XLVI:

Fine miniatures.

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

Binding

Red velvet, mended.

History

Origin: 14th century, middle ; French, Metz

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol 15v are the (added) arms, azure, three garbs (?) or: which belong to several French families.

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. 500
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 501

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 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

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Data

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