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

MS. Douce b. 5

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in S.C. (late accession)

Guardbook of fragments

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 1

Contents

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Missal

Fragments, containing portions of the temporale from the third to the fourth and from the eight to the ninth Sundays after Pentecost with (fol. 3) votive masses

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: parchment
Extent: two leaves, with contemporary foliation CLIII and CLXI, and a fragment

Layout

2 cols., 32 lines

History

Origin: 14th century ; German

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 2

Contents

(fol.4)
Lectionary (fragment)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: [not specified]

Provenance

‘liber monasterii sancti Godehardi Hildesiens(is) ........’ (recto)

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 3

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Deed,

concerning the grant to John de Malteby, by John son of Simon and Sybil his wife, of the manor of West Beckham (Westbecham), dated Norwich, 1312

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1312 ; English, Norfolk

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 4

Contents

(fol.6)
Breviary (leaf from a portable breviary containing part of the office of Sts. Peter and Paul)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 14th century ; French

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 5

Contents

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Rubric: chapiteau du chapitre de St. Georges

Sent to Douce by [A?] Prevost, of Rouen, 1826

Language(s): French

Physical Description

Support: unknown

History

Origin: 1826

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 6

Contents

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Poems

Sixteen quatrains on death

Incipit: Estime qui voudra la mort espóuvantable
Language(s): French

Physical Description

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 17th century

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 7

Contents

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Poems

Eight elegiacs, written in the same hand as part 6

Incipit: Paupertas pacem, dat opes pax, copia luxum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 17th century

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 8

Contents

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Poems

Three stanzas, the first of eight, the second and third of nine lines

Incipit: De ce sublime esprit dont ton orgueil se pique
Language(s): French

Physical Description

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 17th century

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 9

Contents

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Petition,

to the Duke of Buckingham, warden of the Cinque Ports by his chaplain, John Symmys, vicar of Westerham, Kent, complaining of assault by William Weevare

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: parchment

History

Origin: c. 1450–60 ; English

MS. Douce b. 5 – Part 10

Contents

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Drawing of Cicero

With an elegiac couplet similar to those found in Icones 24 priorum imperatorum … qui visuntur in horto Tabrotiano, Lingonis, 1592, and a scroll with the words ‘Bernard Cousin m'a fait l'an 1590’.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: parchment

Decoration

Drawing

History

Origin: c. 1590

Provenance

Fly leaf of E. Tabourot's copy of J. Mazochius, Illustrium Imagines (Douce I. 207)

Additional Information

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian library staff

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 5: Fragments - Mass Books (typescript, 1957), p. 242

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.