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MS. Lyell 77

Contents

Homiliary (from Advent to Easter Saturday)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Historiated initial and border on fol. 1r. Decorated initials. Headpiece on fol. 182v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 610, pl. LIX)

History

Origin: 1466 ; Italian, Padua

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)
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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 646

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.