Volume 4

A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

  • Bodleian Library
Date:
1895-1953
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    582/750 (page 562)
    j62 douce MSS.^ 1^34’ 21801—805. 21801. In French, on parchment: written in A. D. 1344: 6|x4^in., iv+164 pages. A ‘collection of legal cases and regulations apparently compiled by the community of Oleron,’ chiefly relating to maritime law and custom : beg. ‘ Pere Robert, sire Andre Bicharz ’ : at end, after a Latin extract from St, John’s Gospel, ‘Deo gratias. Iste liber est magistri lohannis Ramberti [the last word in rasura~\, cui detur Paradisus. Et fuit com- pletus anno Domini ccc®. xlL quarto, scilicet decima die mensis Februarij ’: then follow in a 15th cent, hand ‘ Les chouses qui deuent costumer qui passent per le corea dolleron ’: Douce has added some notes. See no. 21960, art. 4. Owned by W. Dupre, from whom Douce received the book. Now MS. Douce 227. 21802. In English, on paper: written in the 15th cent.: iif X4iin., iv + 41 leaves : imperfect, and with some edges injured. The romance of Richard Coeur de Lion : imperfect at beginning and end: beg. (about 270 lines being lost) ‘ Kyng Richard came out of a valey ’: ends ‘Wynne oure annie for no nede’ (about 445 lines being lostj. / Owned by Francis Blomefield (armorial bookplate, 1736), Thomas Martin of Palgrave and dr. Richard Farmer. Now MS. Douce 228. 21803. In English, on parchment: written in the T5th cent.: 6f X4f in., xiii + 18 leaves. A rhyming calendar, each line fitting into the place of a day in the framework of an ordinary calendar, with seven lines at the end: beg. ‘O Ihesu Lord for thi Circumcision’: stated to be by John Lydgate. Foil, i-xiii, 8-end are blank paper. The names ^Rychard Wynne’ and ‘Thomas Shepery’(?) [‘Sheaperdy ’ ? E. W. B. N.] are on fol. 7 (i6th cent. ?). Now MS. Douce 229. 21804. In French, on paper: written in about A. D. 1800: 6^ X4^in., vi x 58 pages. ‘ Le joyeulx Mistere des Trois Rois [Magi] a dixsept personnages, compose par Jehan d’Abondance Bazochien et notaire royal de la Ville du Pont Saint-Esprit ’: in verse, beg. ‘ Le Messagier . Chretiens qui desirez I’amour | De Jesus Christ notez nos diets.’ Now MS. Douce 230. 21805. In Latin, on parchment : written perhaps in the last quarter of the 13th cent, in England: 6^ xq^ in., i+ 116 leaves : illuminated. Hours of the Virgin Mary, according to the use of Sarum, preceded by a calendar (fol. 7), and followed by the Penitential and Gradual