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MS. Douce 50

Summary Catalogue no.: 21624

Contents

Psalter (portable)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 535, pl. XLI:

Fine miniatures.

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

History

Origin: 1240s (?) ; French, Paris (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Summary description based on Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 280–6. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 504

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (15 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 72

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.