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MS. Douce 59

Summary Catalogue no.: 21633

Psalter (portable secular Psalter)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Codex aureus purpureus. Pächt and Alexander i. 416, pl. XXXIV:

Important miniatures, ornaments.

Important borders.

Important initials.

Binding

Green velvet, modern.

History

Origin: French, area of Rheims ; 9th century, middle

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. 264–70. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 507

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 508

Availability

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Please note in addition that this item will be on loan from 21 Sept. 2023 – 18 Feb. 2024 to the exhibition ‘Colour revolution: Turner to Whistler’ (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). It will not be orderable between those dates or for a short period before and after.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (354 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. 70

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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