MS. Digby 11

Summary Catalogue no.: 1612

Physical Description

Composite: three parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Fols. 1-91: Oxford, Oxfordshire, Franciscan convent (?) : (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Fols. 149-189: Stanley, Wiltshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin (?) : provenance inferred from contents, cf. fol. 186v, etc. Cf. Hardy, Cat. Mat., 3. 259. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Thos. Allen 7 16 mo and A. 163. (MLGB3)

Cf. H. H. E. Craster in BLR 3 , p. 51, and 4 (1953), p. 243. (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 11 – Part 1

Treatise on natural philosophy

Language(s): Latin

Suda (tr. Robert Grosseteste ; extracts)

Language(s): Latin

Odoricus de Portu Naonis, Relatio de mirabilibus orientalium Tatarorum

Language(s): Latin

Johannis de Plano Carpini, Vita Tartarorum

Language(s): Latin

Notes on Italian cities

Language(s): Latin

Commentary on Walter Map, Dissuasio Valerii

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English, Oxford (?)

MS. Digby 11 – Part 2

Ps.-Aristotle, Physiognomia

Language(s): Latin

Form of a letter

Language(s): Latin

Adelard of Bath

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Digby 11 – Part 3

Sermons.

Language(s): Latin

Theological texts and notes

Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Grammatical verses.

Language(s): Latin

Chronicle of England to 1270.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century and 14th century ; English, Stanley (Wiltshire), Cisterican abbey

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts, repr. with addenda by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, 1999).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 7–8

Quarto Catalogue, col. 9

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 10

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 11

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 70