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MS. Lat. liturg. f. 6

Summary Catalogue no.: 29745

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin and Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
ii + 190 + ii fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 122 × 86 mm.
Dimensions (written): 55 × 40 mm.

Layout

14 long lines.

Decoration

Two styles, that of the calendar related to the school of Anjou, that of the full page miniatures to the work of Jean Colombe. Mutilated, stained, and worn. Pächt and Alexander i. 731, pl. LVII:

Fine miniatures.

Fine historiated borders.

Fine initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; French, Central

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1905). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 5, p. 684
Summary Catalogue, vol. 5, p. 685

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (4 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. 133

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.