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MS. Digby 147

Summary Catalogue no.: 1748

Contents

1.
Walter of Henley, Husbandry (Latin translation)
Language(s): Latin
2.
Richard of Bury, Philobiblon
Language(s): Latin
3.
Treatises on metre
Language(s): Latin
4.
Alchemical treatise and recipes
Language(s): Latin
5.
Ps.-Seneca, works
Language(s): Latin
7.
Treatises on arithmetic
Language(s): Latin
9.
Astrological treatises
Language(s): Latin
11.
William Merle, De prognosticatione aeris
Language(s): Latin
13.
Alanus de Insulis, De planctu naturae
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 715:

Diagrams.

Penwork borders.

Historiated initials.

Other initials.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Merton, Surrey, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber ecclesie Sancte Marie de Mertone" (fol. 1v, erased). "Liber ecclesie beate Marie de Merton iuxta london' in diocesi Wynton'" (fol. 2r, at top, legible by u. v. light). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

John Gisborne (s. xv). Tho. Allen. (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

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, col. 144
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 145–6
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 66
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 67
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 74

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.