MS. Lyell 75

Legendary account, with illustrations, of the founding of the Monastery of SS. Abundius and Abundantius (S. Bonda) near Siena

Language(s): Latin and Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Eight miniatures in decorated frames. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 255, pl. XXIII)

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italian, Siena (?)

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. 224

Catalogue, p. 225

Catalogue, p. 226

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.

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