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.

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    figures being chiefly in grisaille, and many illuminated borders and capitals with grotesques and ornament. Now MS. Douce 248. 21823. In English, on paper: written in the i8th cent, in Scotland: yi ><5 ij^*> iii + 22 leaves. ‘ The farce of the Bellows [covering “ The Apothecary’s Metamor- phosis ”] or Scotch Doctor turn’d Devil. A poetical tale, by an Englishman ’: a coarse story in verse, beg. ‘ If aught may hope of comick lays.’ The scene is perhaps laid at St. Andrew’s. Now MS. Douce 249. 21824. In English, on parchment: written in the second half of the 14th cent.: 7t X 54 in., i + 86 leaves. Parts of a translation of the New Testament into English, containing Matth. i. i-v. 34, Acts i. 1-19, iv. 7-xxviii, James, i & 2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude. Matth. v beg. ‘ Sothly Crist seynge the peple he wente up in to an hylle. & whan he had sette him downe his disciplis come to hym : & he openynge his mouthe techinge hem seyinge.’ Scribbled names are ‘ Nycholas Robyns’ (fob 35'';, ‘Ralph Borton’ (fol. 53), both 16th cent. Now MS. Douce 250. 21825. In Latin, on paper: written in 1698 in England: in., iv + 90 pages. ‘ Archaismus Graphicus ab Henrico Speiman in usum filiorum con- scriptus,’ ‘Transcript 1698 ’ : an alphabetical list of Latin contractions found in MSS. See no. 21863. Now MS. Douce 251. 21826. In French, on paper: written in the i6th cent, in several hands: 7| X 5I in., iii + 31 leaves. Religious French pieces, all but one in verse : the longest is ‘Champ Royal de la Conception de Notre Dame’ (foil. 1-16, a separate MS.: beg. ‘ Prince deuot profund perscrutateur ’): at fol. 28^ is a poetical description of Les Trois Vifs et Trois Morts, from the Danse Maeabre, beg. ‘ Se nous vous apportons nouelles.’ A French description of the volume precedes. Now MS. Douce 252. 21827. In Latin and French, on parchment: written in the first half of the 15th cent, in France : 7i x 54 in., iii + 153 leaves : illuminated : binding, red leather with gold ornament, i8th cent. work. Hours of the Virgin, according to the use of Rouen (fol. 28), pre- ceded by a French calendar (fol. i), Capitula from the Gospels (fol. 13), genealogy of Christ (with Jesse tree miniature: fol. 18), and prayers