Ps.-Basil, Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux — 15th century, first half; English
MS. Lyell 19
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ps.-Basil, Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux — 15th century, first half; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 19
Place of origin
English
Date
15th century, first half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Fol. 1 initial in blue and red on gold ground, infilled with interlacing foliage, and joined to border framing the text formed of panels in the same colours, decorated in white, and divided by foliage or interlace on gold grounds and with sprays of leaves extending into outer margins; fols. 57r, 67r, 92r, similar initals with bar borders, similarly decorated, framing the text; smaller initials gold on decorated red and blue grounds with small sprays of leaves. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 856, pl. LXXXI)
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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