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MS. Lyell 24

Contents

1.
Penitential psalms
Language(s): Latin
2.
Office of the Dead, Use of Sarum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
2 + 98 + 2 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 130 × 90 mm.
Dimensions (written): 72 × 46 mm.

Layout

17-18 long lines

Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

On fols. 1r, 8v, 26v, 65r, painted foliate initials in pink, blue, green, and mauve on gold backgrounds, joined to gold bar borders, with coloured foliate decoration and sprays of tiny leaves, which frame the text. Other initials in blue flourished in red. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1046)

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)
Catalogue, p. 52
Catalogue, p. 53
Catalogue, p. 54

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 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. 329

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.

Data

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