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MS. Digby 158

Summary Catalogue no.: 1759

Contents

2.
Defensor, Liber scintillarum
Language(s): Latin
3.
Sententiae Anselmi
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

P&A iii. 146:

Good initial.

Sketches on fly-leaves, 15th century (?).

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; English, Reading

Provenance and Acquisition

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. 158
Quarto Catalogue, col. 159
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 71
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.