MS. Douce d. 19
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in S.C.: late accession
Collection of illuminated and historiated initials cut from various MSS.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834. Transferred to the Ashmolean Museum with Douce printed and engravings, 1863, and returned to the Library, 1915
MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 1
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Physical Description
Decoration
Fine penwork initials (Pächt and Alexander iii.609).
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 2
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Physical Description
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Fine historiated borders, initials. By the same hand as MS. Barlow 22, from Peterborough (Pächt and Alexander iii.574). Four initials showing: David playing bells and figure with portative organ; Seated angel playing psaltery; Angel playing rebec; Angel playing portative organ
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 3
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Fine historiated initials (Pächt and Alexander iii.774, pl. LXXIV). Two initials showing the nativity, and adoration of the Magi.
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 4
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Physical Description
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Fine initials (Pächt and Alexander iii.837)
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 5
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Physical Description
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Fine and good initials (Pächt and Alexander i.509).
Two illuminated and fifty-three flourished initials
History
MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 6
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MS. Douce 381, fols. 63v-65v are from the same manuscript, and further cuttings are in Philadelphia Free Library, MS. Lewis 3, fols. 1–28 and MS. Lewis 8, fols. 1–4)
Three further cuttings with historiated initials in the Lilly Library, Bloomington, Indiana, are identified and discussed by Peter Kidd in a blogpost of May 2020 (original, archived)
Physical Description
Decoration
Fine borders, initials (Pächt and Alexander i.284 (as corrected in reading room copy), iii.459).
Six historiated initials showing (fol.10) : Monk writing, tempted by demon; Male and female martyrs executed by swordsmen; Virgins receiving book from seated monk with sword; (fol.11) Martyrdom of St. Catherine; (fol.12) Christ carrying the Cross; Resurrection;
245 illuminated initials in blue, white and rose on a gold ground, with many human, animal and grotesque figures, arranged alphabetically.
History
MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 7
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Physical Description
Layout
ruled in purple, 13 long lines
Decoration
Good historiated borders and initials (Pächt and Alexander i. 208, pl. XV).
Twenty-two leaves, each with a historiated initial and border of which the subjects are: (fol.41) Visitation, in border St. Catherine; (fol.42) Nativity, in border St. Geneviève (?); (fol.43) Angel and Shepherds, in border St. Peter; (fol.44) Adoration of the Magi, in border St. Appollonia; (fol.45) Flight into Egypt, in border St. George with dragon; (fol.46) Presentation in the Temple, in border St. Paul; (fol.47) Coronation of the Virgin, in border St. Anthony abbot; (fol.48) Betrayal of Christ, in border angel with cross; (fol. 49) Christ before Pilate, in border angel with hammer and nails; (fol.50) Christ crowned with thorns, in border angel with pillar and scourges; (fol.51) Scourging of Christ, in border angel with crown of thorns; (fol.52) Crucifixion, in border angel with sponge and pail; (fol.53) Deposition from the Cross, in border angel with thirty pieces of silver; (fol.54) Entombment, in border angel with torch and lantern; (fol.55) Trinity, in border St. John the Evangelist; (fol.56) Abraham and angels, in border St. Christopher; (fol.57) Vision of Ezechiel, in border St. Appollonia; (fol.58) Two angels holding body of Adam (?), Trinity above, in border St. Andrew; (fol.59) David with harp as psalmist, in border saint holding fish (?); (fol.60) Vision of Isaiah, in border St. James the less; (fol.61) Jeremiah, in border St. Thomas; (fol.62) Christ enthroned, blessing, in border saint holding bowl.
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 8
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Physical Description
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31 long lines
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 9
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Physical Description
Decoration
Decorative initials (Pächt and Alexander i.381).
Eleven crude flourished initials in red and blue
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 10
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 10a
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Physical Description
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Initial (Pächt and Alexander i.256)
History
Provenance
From MS. Douce 383, fol. 20
MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 10b
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Physical Description
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Fine miniatures.
Borders.
Initials, perhaps by Lievin van Lathem and also attributed to the Master of the London Passionary (Pächt and Alexander i.345, with MS. Douce 381, fols. 78–88).
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 10c
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 11
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Historiated initial (Pächt and Alexander i.259). Historiated initials showing the judgment of Solomon.
History
MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 12
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Historiated initial (Pächt and Alexander i.398). Initial D incorporating grotesque head.
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 13
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 14
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Initials, probably from the same book as MS. Douce 381 fols. 89–103 (a Book of Hours in Dutch) (Pächt and Alexander i.226). Five initials in gold, blue, and rose
History
MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 15
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Physical Description
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 16
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Physical Description
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Fine decorative initial (Pächt and Alexander i.233).
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MS. Douce d. 19 – Part 17
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Prayer; cf. e.g Horae ad usum Romanum (Paris, 1490, istc ih00365000), fol. 12r, after the Gospel pericopes.
A cutting from a border, formerly kept on this folio, was moved to MS. Douce a. 1, fol. 155b, in 1967.
Physical Description
Decoration
Miniature. Bleeding wound of Christ in chalice decorated with nails of the Crucifixion, angel on either side.
Border on all sides with acanthus, flowers, strawberries and monogram 'T B' linked by love knot.
Decorative initials.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (31 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-12-19: Revised description of fol. 77.