A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Digby 154

Summary Catalogue no.: 1755

Physical Description

Composite: four parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Titchfield, Hampshire, Premonstratensian abbey of the Assumption of St Mary and St John the Evangelist: 'liber Abbacie de Tychefeld, ordinis Premonstr., Wynton. diocesis, iuxta Hamelehoke in comitatu Suth.' (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Table of contents (s. xv) shows that 6 pieces are missing at the beginning. The first was Meditaciones beati Bernardi abbatis. (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 154 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Commentary on the Mass.
Language(s): Latin
2.
Peter of Blois, Compendium in Job
Language(s): Latin
3.
Treatise on scripture
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century ; English

MS. Digby 154 – Part 2

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

MS. Digby 154 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century, end or 13th century, beginning ; English

MS. Digby 154 – Part 4

Contents

1.
Britton (legal treatise)
Language(s): Anglo-Norman

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; 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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

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