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MS. Lyell 69

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 66, pl. VI

Decorated initials.

Pen drawings: fol. 1r, King Solomon; fol. 13v, Christ preaching (?); fol. 121v, head of Christ, and a monster; fol. 144r, a bishop, in the border are a monster and a bird. On fols. 56v-57r similar drawings have been coloured, chiefly in deep blue, with pale blue, orange, green, and violet: fol. 56v, miniature of King Solomon on his throne.

fol. 57r, initial with a bishop.

Border of curling foliage.

Smaller initials in red.

History

Origin: 13th century, early ; Italian

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. 207
Catalogue, p. 208

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.