Petrus de Herenthals, Richard Ullerston — 15th century, early (after 1415); English, Oxford (?)
MS. Lyell 20
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Petrus de Herenthals, Richard Ullerston — 15th century, early (after 1415); English, Oxford (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 20
Place of origin
English, Oxford (?)
Date
15th century, early (after 1415)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Fol. 1, on gold ground, initial in blue filled with sprouting interlacing foliage in blue, red, and orange, all decorated in white, joined to a bar border on three sides with clusters and sprays of foliage in the same colours. There are some touches of pale green. Similar initials and border on fols. 3r, 34v, 53v, 74v, 99r, 142r, 159v. Other initals in blue, skilfully flourished in red. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 864)
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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