MS. Douce 8
Summary Catalogue no.: 21582
Contents
Offices and prayers for private use
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: xxix + 457 pages
Dimensions (binding): 4 × 3 in.
Dimensions (leaf): 94 × 70 mm.
Dimensions (written): 52 × 40 mm.
Layout
12 long lines.
Decoration
Some fine, many good miniatures.
Borders.
Initials. By various hands. Italian script. (Pächt and Alexander i. 371, pl. XXX)
Binding
Red morocco with gilt ornament, with embroidered filigree work inside each cover. (18th cent.).
History
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (68 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. 319
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.