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MS. Lyell 20

Contents

1.
Petrus de Herenthals, Collectarius on the Psalter (with index)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

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)

History

Origin: 15th century, early (after 1415) ; English, Oxford (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)
Catalogue, p. 44
Catalogue, p. 45

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-06-15: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.