MS. Lyell 24
Contents
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
Provenance and Acquisition
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)
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.