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MS. Lyell 25

Contents

1.
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Language(s): Latin
2.
Psalter
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

On fol. 8r (much worn) painted foliate initial in colours (blue, orange, pink, green) on gold background, joined to gold bar border, with coloured foliate decoration, which frames the text. Similar initials with smaller borders on fols. 41v, 52v, 59v, 72v, 80v. Smaller painted initials, similar or in gold on coloured backgrounds with sprays of coloured leaves and rayed gold studs on fols. 22r, 28r, 66r, etc. Other initials in blue flourished in red. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1107)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; 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. 54
Catalogue, p. 55
Catalogue, p. 56

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 65

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-06-15: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.