Heures Gothique
"Heures Gothique, MS. on vellum, 15 miniatures, Life of Joseph, and Calendar, with painted capitals, red morocco, gilt edges"
This can be identified as a Psalter for Franciscan usage acquired by the Bodleian Library in Oxford with the Francis Douce bequest, & now MS. Douce 48. The lot sold for £14. 5s. 0d. to .... from whom it was purchased by Francis Douce. Bequeathed by Douce to the Bodleian Library. It is a manuscript of the late thirteenth century with fine miniatures & borders, & historiated & other initials by a second hand.
Bibliography
Bodleian Library, The Douce Legacy: an Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Bequest of Francis Douce, 17571834 (Oxford, 1984), no.237
Bodleian Library, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts and Printed Books: Guide to an Exhibition (Oxford, 1952), no.51
Bodleian Library. Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts (Oxford, 1953), no.21622
R. Branner, Manuscript painting in Paris during the reign of St. Louis (Berkeley, 1977), 211, 246
Otto Pächt & J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1966-73), no.532 & plate xl
J. F. Willard, "Occupations of the Months in Mediaeval Calendars", Bodleian Quarterly Record, (1932), 38.
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