Bible, Table of Hebrew names, Calendar and Litany followed by prayers. — Multiple dates; French
MS. Lat. bib. d. 9
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Bible, Table of Hebrew names, Calendar and Litany followed by prayers. — Multiple dates; French
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. bib. d. 9
Place of origin
French
Date
13th century, middle,
with additions 13th-14th cent.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
326 leaves (fol.238 is double, fol.107, 110, 129, 135, 152 were lost after the MS. was foliated, fol.329–330 are paper flyleaves)Edges badly cropped by binder.
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1317). Illuminated initials cut out except on fol. 285v, 286 (large), and 141v, 191v (small).
Initials to Psalms alternately blue and red with pen flourishing in red or blue, or both colours.
Binding
17th cent. leather binding.
Acquisition
Given by him to the library (formerly Dep. d. 239).
Provenance
14th-century Oxford Dominican Calendar added
V. J. B. Clarke of Kingstanley, Gloucestershire
Sotheby's 18–19 Dec. 1944, lot 301, bought by Maggs for £20
N. R. Ker
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