A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Douce 99

Summary Catalogue no.: 21673

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Ly rommans de Moralites
Rubric: Cy en commence ly Rommans de Moralites
Incipit: Talent mest prins de raconter les enseingnemens des phylosophes
Language(s): Middle French
2. (fol. 27)
Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius (French translation: 'ly liures de Lucydaires')
Rubric: Cy en commence ly liures de Lucydaires
Incipit: Souuentes foys mauoient nostres disciples requi, que je lour desloyasse
Language(s): Old French
3. (fol. 80)
Le roumant du marquis de Saluce et de sa femme Grisilidys
Rubric: Cy apres sensuyt le Roumant du Marquis de Saluce & de sa femme Griselydis,
Incipit: Vng poete de Lombardie | Franchoys pietat je uous affie
(version of Boccaccio, Decameron, X, 10)
Language(s): Middle French
4. (fol. 98)
Jean de Baissegny, Prophetie
Rubric: Cy apres sensuyt la Prophetie de maistre Jehan de Baissegny
Incipit: Je Jehan de bayssegny en une sentence, de lan mille cccc. et xiiii. en quell est jusques en lan mille cccc. et xxii
Explicit: Sy luy prions par sa saincte poissance, quil luy plaise tout ce moderer et nos cuers humiler. Amen.
('Baillegny' in the Summary Catalogue is a transcription error: Martha Kleinhans, ‘Lucidere vault tant a dire comme donnant lumiere’: Untersuchung und Edition der Prosaversionen 2, 4 und 5 des Elucidarium, Lucidaires [Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1993], 74 and n. 90)
Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 104 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8.625 × 6.375 in.

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

'From the Duc de la Valliere's library, no. 1242.': Louis César de La Baume le Blanc (1708-1780).

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the following sources:
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840), p. 15
Summary Catalogue (1897)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2025-05-22: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897) and other printed sources