Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 322 | |
| MS Appellation: | SC 21896 |
| Title: | Devotional Works |
| Contents: | Lydgate's Calendar; 9 lessons of the Dirige; Parce Michi Domine; Orilogium Sapientiae; How to Die, religious didactic works in English prose including 'The XII Chapitres' attributed to Richard Rolle |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
| Dialect: | LP 6240; County: Essex |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | i (original flyleaf) + 101 + i newer paper flyleaf; ends incomplete on f101v with only 4 leaves in last quire. |
| Pagination: | Ink, arabic but not medieval on ff2-11v (numbers 1-20); modern pencil foliation in far upper outer corner, 1-102 including final paper flyleaf. |
| Quiring: | 8 |
| Signatures: | Signatures in second part beginning on f18 with a cross and i-iiij; a+i on f26, b+i on f34, c+i on f42, d+i on f50, e+i on f58. |
| Catchwords: | In scrolls, as on f25v. |
| Page Size: | 275 x 180 |
| Frame: | 4 x vertical enclosing two columns, 2 x horizontal with top line of frame as top of minim line. |
| Writing Space: | 213 x 68 per column = 213 x 142 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | Rubric by the scribe in space left between texts. |
| Marginal Headings: | Rubric headings, sometimes several per page |
| Table of Contents: | By the scribe on f1v which was originally a flyleaf; first quire begins on f2. |
| Historiated Initials: | On f10 an initial of Job and God at the beginning of the 9 lessons on the Dirige; a dying person in bed on f27. |
| Illuminated Initials: | On f18 a 7-line rose initial with white highlights and blue, green, rose, orange on solid gold ground, foliage and sprays into whole of left margin and half of upper and lower margins; also 'KL' of various colours, rose, green with white highlighting on solid gold ground; alternating red and blue with black on calendar pages |
| Miniatures: | On f15 miniature of dreamer and bird at beginning of 'Parce Michi Domine miniature of death on f19v |
| Paragraph Marks: | Alternating red and blue paraphs, red headings and blue initials with red pen-work; blue or red paraphs which precede the marginal glosses extend the length of the gloss, f40. |
| Flourished Initials: | 2-line blue Lombard initials with red pen-work |
| Other Names (not owners): | Coats of arms on f10 and f78; William Baron in top margin of f10 and his arms with another's below first column on f78; the other person's arms are inside the initial in second column on f78; f78 is the beginning of Rolle's 12 chapters 'De Emendacione peccatoris f78 is the middle folio of the quire recto leaf. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | William Baron also owned Oxford, St. John's 208 (copied by Hand C of TCC R. 3.19), and Oxford Bodleian, Bodley 596, part 1 (by Owl artist scribe). Note: Douce 322 was exemplar for Harley 1706, ff1-95. Similar hands in Bodley 596 part 2 and Bodley Laud misc. 416. |
| Further Information: | Douce Catalogue. Lalme 1.148 says: 'Two hands in similar language: religious tracts and verse. Mark of ownership: the arms of Knollys of North Mimms, Herts (SE of St. Albans). Also had connexions with Dartford, Kent'. |