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Douce, Francis, 1757-1834

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  • Statutes of England, nova statuta, 1327–78 — 14th century, last quarter; English MS. Douce 16

  • Genesis–2 Chronicles in the Earlier Version of the Wycliffite Bible — 14th century, end; England MS. Douce 370

  • Psalter with Antiphons, Dominican Use; Italy, Brescia, 15th century, third quarter (after 1455, but before 1461 (?)) MS. Douce 272

  • Illustrations of medieval fools and jesters: illuminations from manuscripts, original sketches and copies — 14th century -19th century; Multiple places of origin MS. Douce b. 4

  • Marguerite de Navarre — c. 1540; French MS. Douce 91

  • Romance — 14th century, second quarter; French MS. Douce d. 13

  • Twenty-one letters, chiefly on literary subjects, from Francis Douce to mr. Pinkerton of Paris MS. Douce d. 2

  • Odo de Cheriton — 15th century MS. Douce 169

  • Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — c. 1400; France, Paris MS. Douce 371

  • Portable Psalter, Franciscan Calendar and Added Hours, Use of Metz; France, Paris (?), Metz; 13th century, between 1235 and 1255 (?), and 14th century, early MS. Douce 48

  • John Harding — 15th century, third quarter (after 1464); English MS. Douce 345

  • Ps.-Augustine — 15th century, first half; English MS. Douce 34

  • Chronicle of the Kings of England, Belin to Stephen — 16th century; English MS. Douce 341

  • Philip of Clairvaux, Stefano Maconi, Henricus Suso — 15th century; English MS. Douce 114

  • Poems, Medical recipes, The Siege of Jerusalem (Titus and Vespasian) — 15th century, third quarter (?); English MS. Douce 78

  • Autographs, including a note by F. Douce on the miracle of Bolsena MS. Douce d. 7

  • Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht — c. 1500; Netherlands, Utrecht MS. Douce 30

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, end; French MS. Douce 31

  • Christoforo Barzizza of Brescia — 16th century, beginning; Italy or France (?) MS. Douce 73

  • Documents relating to Thury, Normandy, Account of Robert Gringore, receiver of Thury, 1458–9 — c. 1459; French, Thury MS. Douce 379*

  • John of Seville, Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum de regimine sanitatis (recension of Thomas of Cantimpré); Thomas of Cantimpré, de lapidibus; Annals, 413-1553. Germany, c. 1535 MS. Douce 85

  • Letter from Edward Foxhall and letter from Francis Douce MS. Eng. c. 2819, fols. 72-76

  • Alanus de Insulis — 1372; [Netherlands] MS. Douce 64

  • Bestiary — c. 1300; English MS. Douce 151

  • Richard Rolle, Ambrosius Autpertus (Ps.-Augustine) — 15th century; English MS. Douce 107

  • The Prick of Conscience — 14th century, end; England MS. Douce 156

  • Rudolphus de Liebegg — 1418; German, South MS. Douce 133

  • La vie des anciens peres — 13th century end; French MS. Douce 150

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 16th century, beginning; Flemish, Bruges or Ghent MS. Douce 112

  • Ps.-Ambrose — 1504; English MS. Douce 110

  • Boethius — c. 1400; French MS. Douce 298

  • Statutes of the Council of Forty at Venice with additions up to 1401 — before 1401 (1394?); Italy, Venice MS. Douce 339

  • De infantia saluatoris (Gospel of Ps.-Matthew) — c. 1470–1480; France MS. Douce 237

  • William of Conches, Ps.-Aristotle — 14th century, first half MS. Douce 128

  • John Audelay — 15th century, second quarter; English MS. Douce 302

  • Letters to John Payne Collier MS. Eng. misc. d. 14

  • Apocalypse with commentaries ('The Douce Apocalypse'); England (?Westminster), c. 1265–1270 MS. Douce 180

  • Pierre de Langtoft — 14th century, early; England MS. Douce 120

  • Ps.-Aristotle — 15th century; English MS. Douce 95

  • Pierre de Luxembourg, Gerard of Liège (?), Ps.-Seneca, Martin of Braga — 1475; Flemish MS. Douce 365

  • Book of Hours, Use of Ghent — c. 1480; Flemish MS. Douce 223

  • Dives and Pauper — 15th century, first half; English MS. Douce 295

  • Augustine, Ps.-Augustine, Isidore — 12th century, third quarter; French, Liessies MS. Douce 198

  • New Testament — 14th century, second half; English MS. Douce 250

  • Book of Hours — c. 1450–1470; France MS. Douce 77

  • George Cavendish — c. 1578–1580; English MS. Douce 363

  • Secular Psalter; England, North, 12th century, third quarter MS. Douce 293

  • John Stow — c. 1560–70; English MS. Douce 225

  • Portable Psalter; France, Paris (?), 13th century, 1240s (?) MS. Douce 50

  • An album of 41 Indian pictures with calligraphic panels signed by Mīr ʻAlī — Assembled c. 1650 MS. Douce Or. a. 1

  • Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — 15th century, end; France MS. Douce 195

  • Roger of Wendover, Roger of Howden, Henry Kirkstead (?) — 14th century, beginning; English MS. Douce 207

  • Hugh Oldham — 16th century, first quarter MS. Douce 96

  • Grandes Chroniques de France — 14th century, end; French MS. Douce 217

  • The Prick of conscience, The Siege of Jerusalem (Titus and Vespasian), Religious poems — 15th century, first half; English MS. Douce 126

  • Manual (?) — 15th century, first half; English MS. Douce 22

  • Explanation of words used in the Psalter — 15th century; English MS. Douce 103

  • Book of Hours — 15th century, third quarter; Dutch, Delft MS. Douce 243

  • Sequences ‘Commendation of the Souls’ and Psalms of the Passion, characteristic of the Sarum Books of Hours, in English, The Wycliffite commentary on the Athanasian Creed, Gospel readings for Christmas (John 1; only verses 11–14 survive, because of the loss of leaves), Easter (Mark 16), Ascension Eve (John 17), Ascension Day (Mark 16) and St Thomas’s Day (John 20) in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible with rubrics in red., General epistles in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible: James, with the usual prologue–3 John, 1–6 — 15th century, first quarter; England MS. Douce 258

  • Portable Psalter; French Flanders, Diocese of Thérouanne, region of St-Omer (?); c. 1270–1290 MS. Douce 49

  • William FitzStephen, John of Salisbury, Henry of Huntingdon — after 1176; English MS. Douce 287

  • Sir John Fortescue (attrib.) — 15th century, end - 16th century; English MS. Douce 54

  • Book of Hours, Use of Besançon — c. 1470; French, Besançon MS. Douce 267

  • Album amicorum — 1583–1604 MS. Douce 32

  • Roman de Troie — 1323; Italian, Verona MS. Douce 196

  • Flores et Blanchefleur — 1553; France MS. Douce 69

  • Psalter ('The Ormesby Psalter'), Calendar, Easter table, Psalter, Weekly canticles, each followed by a collect; no rubrics, Confitebor tibi domine, Ego dixi, Exultauit cor meum, Cantemus domino, Domine audiui, Audite celi, Daily canticles, prayers and creeds, each except the Te Deum followed by a collect; no rubrics, Te deum, Benedicite omnia opera, Benedictus dominus deus, Magnificat, Nunc dimittis, Quicumque vult, Litany, Litany of Norwich cathedral — 13th century, late; additions, c. 1310–20 and c. 1325; English, East Anglia; additions, Norwich MS. Douce 366

  • An Album of 16 Indian Paintings. — Compiled in the 18th century. MS. Douce Or. a. 2

  • Douce Manuscripts Douce 310; Douce Adds. 47-48, 99; Douce B. 426, B. 639; Douce BB. 139, BB. 165, BB. 169, BB. 171-172, BB. 188; Douce CC. 388; Douce FF. 59, FF. 63; Douce Prints c. 50, e. 1; Douce S 857-859; MSS. Anglesey a. 2; MSS. Douce 1-390, 390**, 391-393; MSS. Douce a. 1-2, b. 1-4, c. 1-3, d. 1, d. 3-6, d. 8-16, e. 1, e. 3, e. 5-7, f. 1-5, g. 2, R. 458*; MSS. Douce Charters a. 1, a. 3

  • Vincent Ferrer, Laurent d'Orleans — 15th century; French, Languedoc MS. Douce 162

  • Accounts of the Controller of Queen Elizabeth's household — 1577–1581; English MS. Douce b. 1

  • Ps.-Aristotle, Arnold of Villanova — 14th century, beginning; French MS. Douce 2

  • Ps.-Bonaventure — 15th century, first half (?) - 16th century, 1st quarter; English MS. Douce 262

  • Lives of Saints, Passio sanctorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli, Martyrium S. Petri apostoli, a Lino episcopo conscriptum, Martyrium S. Pauli apostoli [eodem Lino auctore], Passio sancti Andreæ apostoli, Miracula sancti Andreæ apostoli cum prologo, Passio sancti Iacobi apostoli, fratris beati Iohannis evangelistæ, Assumptio sancti Iohannis apostoli et evangelistæ, cum prologo, Passio sancti Bartholomæi apostoli, Passio sancti Matthæi apostoli, Passio sanctorum apostolorum Simonis et Iudæ [ex Africano fortassis excerpta], Passio sancti Thomæ apostoli, Passio sancti Iacobi apostoli, Assumptio sancti Philippi apostoli, Sermo in natali sancti Matthiæ legendus, Sermo sancti Augustini episcopi de omnibus apostolis, Passio sancti Marci evangelistæ, Bedae prologus in epistolam sequentem, Epistola aviti presbiteri (Luciani) de reliquiis S. Stephani, Inventio corporis sancti Stephani prothomartyris, Nichodemi, Gamalielis, atque Abibon, Relatio translationis corporis B. Stephani ab Hierosolymis Constantinopolim, Passio S. Vincentii, archidiaconi et martyris, Sermo S. Augustini in natali S. Vincentii martyris, Passio S.Hippoliti sociorumque eius, Sermo S. Fulgentii episcopi in natali S. Stephani, Homilia B. Maximi episcopi in natali eiusdem Stephani, Sermo S. Augustini episcopi de miraculis B. Stephani, Sermo B. Severini [sive Severiani] in natali Innocentum, Sermo B. Iohannis [Chrysostomi] de eisdem SS. Innocentibus, Eiusdem Chrysostomi sermo de eisdem SS. Innocentibus, Venerabilis Bedae homilia de eisdem — 11th century, end; France, North MS. Douce 174

  • Berengaudus, John Chrysostom — 12th century, beginning; English, Canterbury (?) MS. Douce 330

  • Illustrated Piers Plowman; Ireland, 1427–28 MS. Douce 104

  • Statutes of England, nova statuta, 1327 to 1445 — 15th century, middle MS. Douce 312

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 16th century, beginning; Flemish MS. Douce 20

  • Medical recipes, Arithmetical terms — 15th century MS. Douce 45

  • Calendar — 14th century, early; English MS. Douce 88

  • 'Thomas', Robert Grosseteste, Marie de France — c. 13th century, middle; English (?) MS. Douce 132

  • Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht — 15th century, second half; Dutch, Utrecht MS. Douce 57

  • Haimo of Auxerre, Gregory the Great — 12th century, third quarter; Italian, Central, Florence (?) MS. Douce 145

  • The Prick of Conscience, Religious poems and treatises — 15th century, first half; English MS. Douce 141

  • Mechtild von Hackeborn — 15th century; Netherlands MS. Douce 44

  • Homiliary (?) (11th century), with sermons (15th century) added in the margin MS. Douce d. 3

  • Book of Hours in Middle Dutch; Delft, mid-15th century MS. Douce 248

  • Breviary (Franciscan) — 14th century, second quarter; additions, 15th century, beginning; French, Paris MS. Douce 245

  • Lancelot Cycle, Branch 1 — c. 1300; French MS. Douce 303

  • Pierre Bersuire — 15th century, first half (?); English MS. Douce 177

  • Numbers 20:2–Baruch 3:20 in the Earlier Version of the Wycliffite Bible with usual prologues, Numbers 20:2 (4?), Deuteronomy (5), Prologue to Joshua, Joshua (6), Judges (7), Ruth (8), Prologue to 1 Kings, 1 Kings (9), 2 Kings (10), 3 Kings (11), 4 Kings (12 and ezechie), Prologue to 1 Chronicles, 1 Chronicles (13), Prologue to 2 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles (14), Prayer of Manasseh, Prologue to 1 Ezra, Commendation of Ezra, 1 Ezra (15), 2 Ezra (16), 3 Ezra (17), Prologue to Tobit, Tobit (18), Prologue to Judith, Judith (19), Prologue to Esther, Esther (20), Prologue to Job, Job (21), Prologue to psalms, Psalms (22), Prologue to Proverbs, Proverbs (23), Prologue to Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiastes (24?), Song of Songs (25), Prologue to Wisdom, Wisdom (26), Prologue to Ecclesiasticus, Ecclesiasticus (27), Prologue to Isaiah, Isaiah (28), Prologue to Jeremiah, Jeremiah (29), Lamentations of Jeremiah (30?), Prayer of Jeremiah, Prologue to Baruch, Baruch (31?) — 1390s (?); England MS. Douce 369

  • Psalter; England, East Anglia; c. 1340–1348 (?) MS. Douce 131

  • Maurice de Sully, Honorius Augustodunensis, Wace — 12th century, end; English, Durham MS. Douce 270

  • The Three Kings of Cologne — 15th century, second half; English MS. Douce 301

  • Epistre de Ysaac: Enuoyee a sa mere Sarra — 16th century MS. Douce 160

  • Twenty-six letters from Francis Douce to sir Henry Ellis MS. Douce d. 18

  • Documents (transcripts) relating to espousals, marriages and christenings of the royal family of England, between 1500 and 1736, with one of 1254 — 16th century - 18th century; English MS. Douce 194

  • Ovid — after 1531; French MS. Douce 117

  • Boccaccio — 15th century, third quarter; France, West MS. Douce 331

  • Ordinances of Charles VI of France for the regulation of single combat, issued in 1406 — c. 1460–1470 MS. Douce 182

  • Amis and Amiloun, Religious poem — 15th century; English MS. Douce 326

  • Vegetius, Walter Map, Valerius Maximus — c. 1400; English MS. Douce 147

  • Hélie de Boron — before 1500; Flemish MS. Douce 383

  • Bestiary — 13th century, third quarter; English MS. Douce 167

  • Bible, Epistle and Gospel list, Use of Sarum — Multiple dates; French; list added in England (?) MS. Douce 327

  • E. Price — 16th century; English MS. Douce 290

  • Eighteen short letters from Francis Douce to T. Lloyd MS. Douce d. 17

  • Roman de Renart — 1339; French MS. Douce 360

  • Gospel of St. Matthew, Gospel of St. Mark — 11th century, second half (c. 1060 (?)); Flemish, Liège, or German, Lorsch (for full discussion see the description at Bibliotheca Laureshamensis) MS. Douce 292

  • A paper manuscript of Ṛgveda Prātiśākhya, sometimes attributed to Śaunaka. At the end, there are 18 verses and a short prose, forming a short commentary Varṇakramalakṣaṇa, written by Jaggannātha. MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 9

  • Jacques de Longuyon — 14th century, first half; French MS. Douce 165

  • Jean Boutillier — 15th century; France (?) MS. Douce 386

  • 'Autographs of Bodleian benefactors, 1752-1832' MS. Autogr. d. 3

  • Louis le Blanc (attrib.) — 1509–1510; France MS. Douce 92

  • Antiphonal — 15th century, second quarter; Italian, Venice MS. Douce a. 1

  • L'Estoire del saint Graal, Merlin en prose, Suite-vulgate du Merlin — c. 1270; Italian, Bologna MS. Douce 178

  • Book of Hours — 14th century, end; English MS. Douce 275

  • Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur — c. 1450–1470 (before 1463?); French MS. Douce 134

  • The Prick of Conscience — c. 1400; England MS. Douce 157

  • Machines et utensils de guerre — 1582; Portuguese (?) MS. Douce b. 2

  • Boethius — c. 1460; France MS. Douce 352

  • Nicholas Trevet — 15th century, first quarter; England MS. Douce 119

  • Richard Maidstone (?) — 15th century; English MS. Douce 232

  • Valerius Maximus — 15th century (after 1401); French MSS. Douce 202-3

  • John Lydgate (?) — 15th century, second quarter; England MS. Douce 229

  • Tobit in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible — 15th century, first half; England MS. Douce 36

  • 1 copy of An Arabic copy-book — 18th cent. MS. Douce 76

  • Guyart Desmoulins — 14th century, first quarter; French, Paris MSS. Douce 211-12

  • Book of Hours, Use of Paris, Calendar in French, Gospel Pericopes, Obsecro te and O intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms and Litany, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French, Seven Requests to Our Lord, Long Hours of the Cross (Hours of the Passion), Suffrages — 15th century, early; French, Paris MS. Douce 62

  • Medical treatise — 15th century; English MS. Douce 304

  • Book of Hours, Dominican Use ('The Hours of Engelbert of Nassau') MSS. Douce 219-20

  • Arthur and Merlin — 15th century; England, Dorset (? See eLALME) MS. Douce 236

  • John Mirk, Richard Lavynham — 15th century, second half; English, South MS. Douce 60

  • Thomas Walsingham — c. 1400; English MS. Douce 299

  • Statutes of England (statuta vetera) — 14th century, second quarter (?); English MS. Douce 26

  • An Album of 38 Indian Paintings and calligraphic panels. — Compiled in the 18th century. MS. Douce Or. a. 3

  • Samuel Israelita — 15th century, third quarter; Italian, Venice or Verona MS. Douce 247

  • Psalter; Italy, Sora, near Naples (?); 11th century, end MS. Douce 127

  • Wycliffite treatises — 14th century, end; English MSS. Douce 273-4

  • Bible — 13th century, middle; Italian, Genoa or Milan (?) MS. Douce 113

  • Apocryphal details about the Crucifixion — 15th century; Italian MS. Douce 63

  • Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — 15th century; French MS. Douce 332

  • Miroir des histoires du monde, The Siege of Jerusalem, Apocryphal pieces — 15th century, second half (before 1463 (?)); French MSS. Douce 336-7

  • Edmund of Abingdon — 15th century, beginning; 15th century, end (decoration); English (?) MS. Douce 25

  • Speculum humanae salvationis — c. 1460–1470; Flemish (?) MS. Douce f. 4

  • Ps.-Theotimus — 14th century, third quarter; Italian, Verona or Padua (?) MS. Douce 41

  • Treatise on heraldry — c. 1450–60; French, East MS. Douce 278

  • Primasius — 7th century, late, or 8th century, early (before 719); England, south-west (?) MS. Douce 140

  • Portable Psalter; Flanders (Ghent), 14th century, first half (c. 1320-30) MSS. Douce 5-6

  • Homiliary; Germany (Westphalia), 14th century, first quarter, with additions MS. Douce 185

  • Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Alexander de Villa Dei — 1381; decoration, 15th century, second half; English MS. Douce 257

  • Guardbook of fragments MS. Douce b. 5

  • Legal texts, Formulary — 13th century; English MS. Douce 137

  • Tabula Psalmorum, Glossary of plant names — 15th century, end; Italian MS. Douce 380

  • Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — 15th century, beginning; French MS. Douce 188

  • 'Romulus' — 14th century, beginning; French MS. Douce 242

  • Willelmus Peraldus — 15th century; German MS. Douce 122

  • Honorius Augustodunensis, Jean de Baissegny — 15th century MS. Douce 99

  • Aristotle — 14th century MS. Douce c. 4

  • Gesta Francorum — 13th century, end; French MS. Douce 297

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — c. 1500–05 (?); Italian, Milan MS. Douce 14

  • John Mirk — 15th century; English MS. Douce 108

  • John Hardyng — 15th century; England MS. Douce 378

  • Ps.-Bernard — 14th century; English MS. Douce 13

  • Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — c. 1460–1470; France MS. Douce 364

  • The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing — 15th century, first half; English MS. Douce 37

  • Collection of illuminated and historiated initials cut from various MSS. MS. Douce d. 19

  • Book of Hours, Use of Sarum — 14th century, second quarter (?) (c. 1325–30 (?)); England MS. Douce 231

  • Gelasian Sacramentary — 8th century, second half; France, Chelles, Benedictine nunnery MS. Douce f. 1

  • Gesta Romanorum — 15th century, second half; English MS. Douce 142

  • Life of St. Éloi — 1294; French, Noyon MS. Douce 94

  • William Langland — 15th century, second half; English MS. Douce 323

  • Ranulph Higden — 15th century, second half; English MS. Douce 138

  • Epistolary — c. 1520; Flemish, Louvain, Parc Abbey(?) MS. Douce 200

  • Book of Hours, Use of Paris — 15th century, beginning and 15th century, second half; French MS. Douce 80

  • Portable Psalter; Flanders, Bruges (?), late 13th or early 14th century MS. Douce 38

  • Caesar — 15th century, last quarter (after 1474); Flemish MS. Douce 208

  • Chronicle of the Kings of England from William the Conqueror to Henry VI — 15th century; English MS. Douce g. 2

  • Religious pieces — 16th century; French MS. Douce 252

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Calendar (Utrecht), Gospel Pericopes, Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome, Penitential Psalms and Litany, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Cross, Prayers to the Virgin in Latin and French, Stabat mater, Veni creator spiritus, The Eight Verses of St Bernard, Suffrages, Quicumque vult, Prayers in Latin and French, Additional prayers — Multiple dates; Dutch, Utrecht MS. Douce 93

  • State papers, 1570–1660, Paston papers, 15th century - 1672 — 15th century - 1723; English MS. Douce 393

  • Book of Hours, Use of Paris — 1408; French, Paris MS. Douce 144

  • Vegetius — 13th century, end; French MS. Douce 149

  • Priest's vade medum including a psalter; English, c. 1433–1475? MS. Douce 18

  • Life of Adam and Eve (IPMEP 25), The Five Wiles of King Pharaoh — 15th century, first half; English MS. Douce 15

  • Odo de Cheriton — 15th century; English MS. Douce 101

  • Willelmus Peraldus — 1441; German, Tübingen MS. Douce 355

  • Portolan charts ('The Douce Atlas'); Venice, early 15th century MS. Douce 390

  • Autograph letters of a few Bodleian or Ashmolean benefactors MS. Autogr. c. 5

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rouen — 16th century, first quarter; French, Normandy MS. Douce 72

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 16th century, beginning; French, North MS. Douce 276

  • 1 copy of An Arabic book of prayers — 16th cent. MS. Douce 334

  • Charters, 1147–1596 — English MS. Douce Charters a. 1

  • Three mas̲navis by Niẓāmī. — Multiple dates; Samarqand MS. Douce 348

  • Isidore of Seville — 12th century MS. Douce 153

  • Prayer book in Latin and English; England, c. 1460 MS. Douce 1

  • Breviary — 1563; French MS. Douce 10

  • Book of Hours, Use of Tournai — 1480 and c. 1500; Dutch (?) MS. Douce 266

  • Vegetius — c. 1445–1447; English MS. Douce 291

  • Book of Hours, Use of Metz — 14th century, middle; French, Metz MS. Douce 39

  • Lancelot cycle, Branch 5 — 13th century, second half; Italian MS. Douce 189

  • Legal customary of Oléron — Multiple dates; French MS. Douce 227

  • Institutes and statutes of the Gilbertine order, 13th century-early 16th century MS. Douce 136

  • Ovid, Ps.-Ovid — 15th century, end; Italian, Padua or Rome MS. Douce 146

  • Medical recipes — 15th century; English MS. Douce 84

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 16th century, beginning; Flemish MS. Douce 256

  • Untitled work or fragment — c. 1490; Flemish MS. Douce 51

  • Autograph letters from benefactors to the Bodleian MS. Autogr. c. 7

  • Johannes Platterberger and Dietrich Truchseß, Excerpta chronicarum, part I; Germany (?Nuremberg), 15th century, second half (after 1459) MS. Douce 367

  • Guillaume de Deguilleville — c. 1400; French MS. Douce 300

  • Psalter ('The Aspremont Psalter'), Companion Volume to a Book of Hours; France, Lorraine (?), late 13th or early 14th century MS. Douce 118

  • Awntyrs of Arthur — 15th century; English MS. Douce 324

  • John Mandeville — 15th century, middle; English MS. Douce 33

  • Offices and prayers for private use — 15th century, end; Multiple places of origin MS. Douce 8

  • Album amicorum of Paul van Dale — c. 1569–1578; Flanders MS. Douce d. 11

  • Lancelot en prose, Queste del saint Graal, Mort Artu — Multiple dates; French MS. Douce 215

  • Abbreviamentum statutorum 1444/1445 — 15th century, middle; England MS. Douce 159

  • Brunetto Latini — 14th century, beginning; Italian MS. Douce 319

  • Rules and Constitutions of the Confraternity of St. Peter Martyr, Valladolid — 1558; Spanish MS. Douce 130

  • Gielis vander Hecken, 1491-1538 — c. 1530 (before 1538), with some additions after 1538; Flemish, Augustinian priory of Zevenborren MS. Douce 373

  • Sermons — c. 1380–1420; German, South MS. Douce 58.

  • Poems written for the Puy of the Fraternity of the Immaculate Conception at Rouen , 1511 — after 1511; French MS. Douce 379

  • Statutes of England, nova statuta, Edward III (1327–77) — 14th century, end; English MS. Douce 27

  • Petrus de Alliaco, John of Garland, John Bridges — 15th century; English MS. Douce 52

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 1527–28; Polish, Cracow MS. Douce 40

  • Ps.-Boethius — 10th century - 11th century; English MS. Douce 125

  • Du chevalier a la robe vermeille — 15th century, end; French MS. Douce 111

  • Portable Psalter; France, Diocese of Amiens, 13th century, third quarter MS. Douce 23

  • Sermons, Treatise on confession — 13th century; English (?) MS. Douce 282

  • Offices and prayers for a lady's private use — 15th century, end; Multiple places of origin MS. Douce 12

  • Register of writs, Statutes of England(vetera statuta), Legal treatises, Song with music — 13th century; English, Coventry (?) MS. Douce 139

  • An Album of 32 Indian Paintings and 3 calligraphic panels. — Compiled in the 18th century. MS. Douce Or. b. 3

  • William Brito — 15th century; English MS. Douce 239

  • An album of 26 Indian pictures with 14 calligraphic panels. MS. Douce Or. b. 1

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 16th century, second quarter; French MS. Douce 135

  • Untitled works or fragments — 12th century - 19th century MS. Douce d. 5

  • Lancelot de Lac, la Queste del saint Graal — 14th century, second quarter; French MS. Douce 199

  • Boccaccio — 16th century, first half MS. Douce 329

  • 1 work on the subject of Commercial treaties — 1602 MS. Douce Or. e. 5

  • Geoffrey of Monmouth — c. 1300; English MS. Douce 115

  • Gospel lectionary — c. 800; Multiple places of origin MS. Douce 176

  • Ps.-Aristotle — 15th century, first half MS. Douce 325

  • Poor Caitiff — 15th century, early; English MS. Douce 288

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rouen — c. 1480; France, Rouen MS. Douce 253

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — c. 1480; Italian, Venice MS. Douce 11

  • Life of St. Juliana — 13th century MS. Douce 381

  • Statutes of England (statuta vetera), Commentary on the Apostles' Creed — 14th century, second quarter; English MS. Douce 17

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 1507; Italian, Florence MS. Douce 9

  • John Lydgate — 15th century, late; Scottish MS. Douce 148

  • Gratian — 13th century, beginning; English, London (?) MS. Douce 218

  • Boccaccio — 15th century, third quarter (before 1467); French, Anjou (?) MS. Douce 213

  • Thomas — 13th century and 14th century MS. Douce d. 6

  • La vie des anciens peres — c. 1300 MS. Douce 154

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Eleanora Gonzaga'); Italy, Rome, 1509 × 1538 (before 1527 (?) or c. 1535-7 (?)) MS. Douce 29

  • Troubadour songs — 13th century, second half; Italian (?) MS. Douce 269

  • Renaut de Montauban — 13th century, first half; French MS. Douce 121

  • Religious treatises, Synodal statutes — 15th century, late; French MS. Douce 263

  • 1 copy of An album of fifty-three pictures representing Hindi Rāgs, harem or zenānah scenes. There are no calligraphic specimens MS. Douce Or. b. 2

  • Olivier de la Marche, Amé de Montgesoie — 16th century, middle; Flemish MS. Douce 168

  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 16th century, second quarter; Italian, Rome MS. Douce 19

  • Geoffrey Chaucer — 15th century; English MS. Douce d. 4

  • Athanasius, Jerome — 12th century, third quarter; English MS. Douce 351

  • Jean Mansel — c. 1470–1480; Flemish MS. Douce 333

  • Rabanus Maurus — Multiple dates; French MS. Douce 192

  • Plutarch, Leonardo Bruni, Basil the Great, Xenophon — 15th century, second quarter; Italian, Florence MS. Douce 214

  • Book of Hours, Use of Bayeux — c. 1450–60; French, Bayeux MS. Douce 268

  • Hours of Louis Quarré MS. Douce 311

  • An alphabetical list of Symbols of Christian Saints MS. Douce e. 2

  • Terence — 1435; Italy MS. Douce 347

  • Gilte Legende — 1438–60; English MS. Douce 372

  • Prayers and devotions for private use — 16th century, beginning; French MS. Douce 264

  • Life of St. Hilary — 12th century, early MS. Douce 226

  • Treatises on heraldry and the Order of the Garter, Religious treatise — 15th century, third quarter; additions, 16th century; English MS. Douce 271

  • Jean Wauquelin — c. 1500; Flemish MS. Douce 205

  • Alphabet of painted capitals — 16th century, beginning; French MS. Douce f. 2

  • Robert of Greatham, Edmund of Abingdon, Simund de Freine — c. 1300; English MS. Douce 210

  • Papers of Francis Douce MSS. Douce b. 6-9, c. 5-12, d. 20-88, e. 9-107, f. 6-26

  • Apollonius of Tyre — 15th century; England MS. Douce 216

  • Missal (Franciscan) — 14th century, middle; French MS. Douce 313

  • Jacques de Longuyon — 14th century, first quarter; French, Metz (?) MS. Douce 308

  • An Album of Paintings and Calligraphic Panels. — 17th-18th century. MS. Douce Or. c. 4

  • Sermons — 15th century, end; French MS. Douce 4

  • John Mandeville — 15th century; English MS. Douce 109

  • Gesta Romanorum — 15th century, first half; English MS. Douce 310

  • Statutes of England (vetera statuta) and tracts — 14th century, second quarter; English MS. Douce 35

  • Table of lections of Type I, New Testament in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible with usual prologues, Wycliffite table of lections of Type I with Old Testament readings written out in full — 15th century, middle; England MS. Douce 265

  • Johannes Bochius — c. 1594–95; Flemish MS. Douce 387

  • Book of Hours, Use of Amiens — 15th century, end; French MS. Douce 152

  • Johannes de Sacro Bosco — 14th century, end; English MS. Douce 129

  • Edward, duke of York — 15th century, middle; English MS. Douce 335

  • Statutes of England:, Statuta Vetera, Nova Statuta, Edward III, Nova statuta, Richard II, Nova Statuta, Henry IV and 1-2 Henry V. — 15th century, beginning; English MS. Douce 362

  • Book of Hours — c. 1400; English MS. Douce 246

  • Jean Galopes, Ps.-Aristotle — 1435; additions, 15th century, late; Flemish, Lille (?) MS. Douce 305

  • Arnaldus de Villa Nova — 13th century MS. Douce 87

  • Rule of St. Benedict — 13th century, first half; French (?) MS. Douce 320

  • Breviary, Use of Rome (Franciscan) — 1473; Italian, Venice MS. Douce 314

  • Boethius — 15th century; English MS. Douce 100

  • Almanac and runic calendar — 1432; Flemish MS. Douce 71

  • Treatise on religious life compiled from Bonaventure — 1522; Dutch MS. Douce 382

  • Book of Fate — 15th century, second quarter; Italian, North MS. Douce 241

  • Household account of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, drawn up by Olivier de La Marche in 1474 — 16th century; France MS. Douce 181

  • Book of Hours, Use of Troyes — 15th century, beginning; French MS. Douce 102

  • Ralph de Hengham, Robert Grosseteste, Walter of Henley — c. 1320–1330; English MS. Douce 98

  • Jean Miélot — c. 1456 (old style, 1457 new style); Flemish MS. Douce 374

  • Vision of St Mawdlen, Golden Letany of the Lyeff and Passion of Christe, Prayer — 15th century, second half; England MS. Douce 42

  • Ps.-Seneca — 1465; Italian MS. Douce 306

  • Speculum humanae saluationis — c. 1430–50; Spanish, Catalonia, Roussillon MS. Douce 204

  • William Taylor — 15th century, first half; English MS. Douce 53

  • Portable Secular Psalter; France, area of Reims; 9th century, middle MS. Douce 59

  • Histoire ancienne jusqu'a César — 15th century, third quarter; French MS. Douce 353

  • King Ponthus — 15th century MS. Douce 384

  • Troper, Proser, Offertorial — 11th century, end; Italian, Breme-Novalesa, Benedictine abbey MS. Douce 222

  • Portable Psalter; French Flanders, Diocese of Thérouanne (?), late 13th or early 14th century MS. Douce 24

  • Map of Palestine — 14th century, second half; English MS. Douce 389

  • New Testament in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible, Table of lections of Type I — 15th century, first half; England MS. Douce 240

  • Richard Rolle, Henricus Suso — 15th century, third quarter; English MS. Douce 322

  • Michael Ott, Kriegsregiment, etc.; southern Germany, c. 1530 MS. Douce 186

  • Psalter ('the Crowland Psalter'); England, East Anglia, 11th century, second or third quarter, with 11th- and 12th-century additions MS. Douce 296

  • Quintus Curtius — 15th century, second half; French MS. Douce 318

  • Jacques Milet — 1461; French, Paris MS. Douce 356

  • Thomas Hoccleve — 15th century, second quarter; English MS. Douce 158

  • André le Moine — 1320s; English, probably London MS. Douce 79

  • Cookery recipes — 15th century, middle; English MS. Douce 55

  • Bede — 12th century, second quarter; English, Winchcomb MS. Douce 368

  • Wycliffite sermons — 15th century, early; English MS. Douce 321

  • Hildebert of Lavardin, Ps.-Bede — 13th century, early MS. Douce 89

  • Richard Coeur de Lion — 15th century, second half (script, watermarks); England, probably Norfolk MS. Douce 228

  • Ambrose — 13th century, second half MS. Douce 284

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