A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Lyell 72

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 763:

Red initials flourished in red.

A series of simple pictures, added c. 1400.

History

Origin: 14th century ; Italian, North-east (?)

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)

Availability

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (6 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

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.