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MS. Lyell 7

Contents

Bible
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 380, pl. XXXIV

Larger initials are blue and red with foliate decoration painted in green, brown, and yellow on a red ground.

Border with miniatures on fol. 5.

Lesser initials are red and blue flourished in the same colours, or blue flourished in red, or red in blue.

History

Origin: 13th century, second 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. 14
Catalogue, p. 15
Catalogue, p. 16

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.

Data

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