Life of St. Juliana — 13th century

Title

Life of St. Juliana — 13th century

Adam Ross — 13th century

The Destruction of Troy — 13th century

Characters of first eighteen days of the month in relation to good and ill fortune — 15th century

Martijn van Thorout — 14th century, second half; Dutch

Romance of Garin de Montglane (?) — 15th century

Songs — 15th century, late

Songs with music — 14th century, late (?)

Chanson de Jérusalem — 13th century

Collectar and Hymnal — 13th century

Psalter/Hours and Calendar — 13th century, third quarter; Flemish, Liège

Psalter — 13th century, first half; French (?)

Book of Hours — 15th century, third quarter; Multiple places of origin

Book of Hours — c. 1470–80; Dutch

Book of Hours — c. 1480–90; Flemish

Psalter — 13th century, second half; French, Paris

Gradual — 16th century, second half; French

Gradual — 16th century, second quarter; French

Gradual — 15th century, end; Italian, North-west (?)

Gradual — 15th century, middle; Italian, Venice (?)

Book of Hours — c. 1470; French

Cutting — 15th century, third quarter; Flemish

Cutting — 15th century, end; Flemish

Cutting — 15th century, end; Dutch

Book of Hours — 15th century, beginning; French

Cutting — 15th century, end; Flemish

Book of Hours — c. 1480; Italian, Venice

Book of Hours — 15th century, end; Flemish, Ghent

Pericope, prayers — 15th century, third quarter; Flemish

Book of Hours — 15th century, middle; Flemish

Book of Hours — 15th century, end; French

Gradual — 15th century, third quarter; Italian, Lombardy or Ferrara (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 381

Date

15th century, beginning

13th century, second half

13th century, third quarter

c. 1470–80

13th century, first half

13th century

15th century, third quarter

15th century

16th century, second quarter

15th century, late

14th century, second half

15th century, middle

c. 1480

15th century, end

c. 1480–90

14th century, late (?)

16th century, second half

c. 1470

Language

No linguistic content

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Old French (842-ca. 1400)

Middle English (1100-1500)

Anglo-Norman

Contents

Musical notation

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Title

Fragments

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 381

Summary

Made up of separate pieces.

Fragments of MSS., inlaid, but generally imperfect:, comprising:

(fol. 1) (French, on parchment: 13th cent., in double columns) Part of a metrical Life of st. Juliana: beg. 'Onques matins qui est en hart', ends 'conuie vn gaignon': see P. Meyer, Docc. manuscrits de l'ancienne littérature de France. Rapports (1871), i. 200.

(fol. 2) (French, on parchment: 13th cent.) Part of the Vision S. Pol en enfer, by Adam de Ros, in verse: beg. 'E par les chefs', ends 'Ki en cest liu serra pose': see P. Meyer in Notices et Extraits, xxxv. 1. 155, Roman. Studien, i. 392 (n).

(fol. 4) (French, on parchment: 13th cent.) Fragments of a double-columned MS. of the romance of the Destruction of Troy in verse.

(fol. 6) (English, on paper: 15th cent.) The characters of the first eighteen days of the month, in relation to good or ill fortune, the first and last days imperfect: beg. 'Wo so that day take sykkenysse': in six-line stanzas rhyming aabccb.

(fol. 13) (Dutch, on parchment: 14th cent., in double columns) Leaf clxxxiv from a volume of Lives of Saints by Martijn van Thorout: in the first column is 'Hier beghint de prologhe ... an sente Waernere die sturce sijn bloet': see Priebsch, Deutsche Hss. in England (1896), pp. 181, 330.

(fols. 14, 16) (French, on paper: 15th cent.) Two leaves from a MS. of the romance of Garin de Montglane (?): beg. 'Maint paien fist a terre': see Roman. Studien, i. 406.

(fols. 15, 17-19) (French, on paper: late 15th cent., in double columns) Fragments of four leaves of French songs (?): the name Guillot frequently occurs.

(fol. 20) (English and French, on parchment: late 14th cent. ?) Four leaves, damaged, of songs with words in English and French, with music on five-line staves: two begg. 'Hafe set my herte', 'Les eux ouert, la bouche close.' 'E. H.' is on the last page.

(fol. 24) (French, on parchment: 13th cent., in double columns) Two leaves from the Chanson de Jerusalem: see Roman. Studien, i. 392.

(fol. 26) (Latin, on parchment: 13th cent., English writing) A large fragment of a Collectar and (fairly complete) a Hymnal: the latter has musical notes. 'Johannes Hearne' wrote his name in it in the 16th cent.

(fols. 63-end) Fragments of liturgical books, some with illuminations, including parts of a calendar (14th cent., French, fols. 63-5), Psalter (13th cent., Latin, fols. 66-72, cf. 181-2), Calendar (15th cent., Latin, fols. 73-5), Calendar (15th cent., Dutch, fols. 77-88), Hours of the Virgin (15th cent., Dutch, ilium., fols. 89-103), Do. several MSS. (15th cent., Latin, ilium., fols. 105-117, 153, etc., etc.), 13th cent. miniatures of sacred subjects (fols. 122-5), illuminations from a large Latin 14th cent. Gradual (?: fols. 128-152).

Date

written in the 13th-15th cent.

Language

Dutch

Latin

French

English

Physical facet

On paper and parchment

Physical extent

184 Leaves