Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, Psalter — 15th century, third quarter; English
MS. Lyell 25
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, Psalter — 15th century, third quarter; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 25
Place of origin
English
Date
15th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
On fol. 8r (much worn) painted foliate initial in colours (blue, orange, pink, green) on gold background, joined to gold bar border, with coloured foliate decoration, which frames the text. Similar initials with smaller borders on fols. 41v, 52v, 59v, 72v, 80v. Smaller painted initials, similar or in gold on coloured backgrounds with sprays of coloured leaves and rayed gold studs on fols. 22r, 28r, 66r, etc. Other initials in blue flourished in red. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1107)
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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