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MS. Lyell 47

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Laurent d'Orleans, Somme le Roi
Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

The initials are flourished with penwork in Bruges style; that on fol. 1r is red and blue flourished in blue and red, the rest are red with blue or blue with red.

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; French, Bruges (?)

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. 126
Catalogue, p. 127
Catalogue, p. 128

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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.