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MS. Douce 51

Summary Catalogue no.: 21625

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
1. (fol. 1)

Calendar

2. (fol. 14)

Passion according to St John

3. (fol. 29)

Salve sancta facies

4. (fol. 31)

Offices of the Cross and the Holy Ghost (fol. 39)

5. (fol. 48)

Mass of the Virgin with pericopes from the gospels (fol. 52)

6. (fol. 59)

Obsecro te, O intemerata (fol. 62v)

7. (fol. 65v)

Commemorations

8. (fol. 74)

Office of the Virgin

9. (fol. 153)

Penitential Psalms with litany (fol. 165)

10. (fol. 176)

Office of the dead.

Additional prayers (fols. 24, 105, 139v, 151, etc.)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Composite: main volume (fols. 1–12, 28–224) made in Flanders about 1490, with fols. 13–27 added in France, c. 1500.
Form: codex
Support: parchment
1 + 223 + 1 fol. (215 is double)
Dimensions (leaf): 135 × 95 mm.
Dimensions (written): 75 × 50 mm.

Layout

17 lines

Binding

Red velvet with silver clasps, worn.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Bernard de Bonnoel of Bordeaux (fols. 222v-223).

Margaret de Bonnoel of Bordeaux (ibid.).

Jehan Vitrac of Bordeaux, 1582 (ibid.).

His granddaughter Marguerite Brun of Bordeaux(ibid.).

Given by her in 1655 to her grandson Jacques de Maures of Bordeaux (ibid.)

Francis Douce, 1757–1834: acquired by him in 1831.

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834.

MS. Douce 51 – Part 1 (fols. 1–12, 28–224)

Physical Description

Decoration

Good miniatures.

Borders.

Initials. By the Master of Edward IV. Pilgrim badges fixed to fols. 45v, 58v, 59r(2), 74r. (Pächt and Alexander i. 365, pl. XXIX)

History

Origin: c. 1490 ; Flemish

MS. Douce 51 – Part 2 (fols. 13–27)

Physical Description

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 817:

Miniatures.

Borders.

Initials.

History

Origin: c. 1500 ; French

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (June 2019) from the following sources:
The Douce Legacy (1984), no. 243
S. J. P. van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, typescript (1957), IV, p. 296
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , I (1966), nos. 365, 817
Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 504
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 505

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (48 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 296

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.