MS. Digby 158

Summary Catalogue no.: 1759

Johannes Presbyter, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum

Language(s): Latin

Defensor, Liber scintillarum

Language(s): Latin

Sententiae Anselmi

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 146:

Good initial.

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

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; English, Reading

Provenance and Acquisition

Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Hic est Sancte Marie de Radinge . . .'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

T. Allen. 4 o 14. (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. 158

Quarto Catalogue, col. 159

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 71

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 74