Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Douce 201.
ISTC No.ij00089000
AuthorJacobus de Voragine
TitleLegenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia
ImprintVenice : Christophorus Arnoldus, [not after 6 May] 1478
Formatf°
Languagelat
SubjectHagiography
Keywordsliterature devotional; liturgy
Periodmedieval
Description of Copy
Copy Id00205607
Holding InstitutionOxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
ShelfmarkDouce 201.
NoteBodInc-Id: J-036(1)
Provenance
1701 -
1900
Areae-uk-en
Time period1701 - 1900
Provenance nameDouce, Francis (1757-1834), 1757 - 1834 [Former Owner] (Male, Scholar, No characterisation/lay) Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, bequeathed his collection to the Bodleian Library; see Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce to the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1840); Macray 326; Craster 15-16; `Francis Douce 1757-1834', BQR 7 (1934), 359-84; Munby, Connoisseurs, esp. 35-56; David Rogers, `Francis Douce's Manuscripts: Some Hitherto Unrecognized Provenances', in Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard (Oxford, 1975), 315-40; Douce Legacy; P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973 (London, 1998), ad indicem; I. G. Philip, `The Bodleian Library', in Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part I, ed. M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, The History of the University of Oxford, 6 (Oxford, 1997), 585-97, at 593.
NoteFrancis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate; purchased at the MacCarthy sale for £0. 15. 0, with Douce noted as the purchaser in his copy of the catalogue.
Provenance
1701 -
1900
Time period1701 - 1900
Provenance nameMacCarthy Reagh, Justin (1744-1811), 1744 - 1811 (Unknown) comte; see Catalogue des livres rares et précieux du cabinet de M. L. C. D.M. (Paris, 1779); sales: A Catalogue of a Very Elegant and Curious Cabinet of Books Lately Imported from France; The Property of a Gentleman Resident in that Kingdom... (London: Leigh & Sotheby, 18-30 May 1789); Catalogue des livres rares et précieux... de feu M. le comte de Mac-Carthy Reagh (Paris, 1815); Anthony Hobson, `A Letter from Count MacCarthy-Reagh to J.-B.-B. van Praet', in Festschrift Otto Schäfer zum 75. Geburtstag am 29. Juni 1987, ed. Manfred Arnim (Stuttgart, 1987), 515-21.
Provenance
1602 -
Areae-uk
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