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
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1905). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
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.