Hugo de Folieto, Peter of Poitiers — c. 1300; Italian, North
MS. Lyell 71
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Hugo de Folieto, Peter of Poitiers — c. 1300; Italian, North
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 71
Place of origin
Italian, North
Date
c. 1300
Language
Latin
Contents
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.
Acquisition
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Provenance
James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948
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