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MS. Digby 140

Summary Catalogue no.: 1741

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–2 || fols. 3–17

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 140 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Poem on stars
Language(s): Old French
2.
Treatise on seasons
Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good miniatures. (Pächt and Alexander i. 551, pl. XLI)

History

Origin: 13th century, end ; French

MS. Digby 140 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Thomas Stubbs, Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis (to 1139)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 525:

Good miniature (coloured drawing).

Marginal sketches, fol. 17v.

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; English

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). Decoration follows Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 141–2
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 65
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 74

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: 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.