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MS. Lyell 71

Contents

1.
Hugo de Folieto, De auibus
Language(s): Latin
2.
Peter of Poitiers, Compendium historiae
Language(s): Latin
4.
Hugo de Folieto, De medicina animae
Language(s): Latin
5.
Meditation on Ps. 44
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Miniatures. Diagrams. On fols. 3r, 4v, 30r, 34r, 35r, 41r, 49r, painted initials on gold grounds, in orange red, violet, pale blue, and pink, shaded and diapered, with scrolled foliage, and framed in dark blue, or pink (fol. 4v only); on fol. 29r large initial in blue and red, flourished in red and blue. Small initials blue flourished in red or red in blue. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 144, pl. XIV)

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; Italian, North

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. 211
Catalogue, p. 212
Catalogue, p. 213
Catalogue, p. 214
Catalogue, p. 215
Catalogue, p. 216

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (29 images from 35mm slides)

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.