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MS. Digby 168

Summary Catalogue no.: 1769

Physical Description

Composite: six parts (part A comprising several separate booklets)

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Fols. 147-180: Osney, Oxfordshire, Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin (?) : Provenance inferred from contents. 'Hemingburgh' inflated with annals of Oseney as in Cotton Tib. A.ix. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

T. Allen. (MLGB3)

Cf. Hardy, Cat. Mat., 3. 257. Originally foliated xxxix–lxxiii. Marginalia fols. 157–158 show interest in Oseney. (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 168 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Richard of Wallingford, Quadripartitum
Language(s): Latin
2.
Alfraganus, De differentiis
Language(s): Latin
4.
Campanus of Novara, Theorica planetarum
Language(s): Latin
6.
Roger of Hereford, Theorica planetarum
Language(s): Latin
7.
Astronomical treatises
Language(s): Latin
8.
Geometrical treatises
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th and 14th centuries ; English and Italian (fos. 108–15) (?)

MS. Digby 168 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Walter of Guisborough, Chronica (part, 1264–97, with additions relating to Osney Abbey)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th and 14th centuries

MS. Digby 168 – Part 3

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th and 14th centuries

MS. Digby 168 – Part 4

Contents

1.
Theological texts
Language(s): Latin
2.
Sermons.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Penwork (fols. 211–231).

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English

MS. Digby 168 – Part 5

Contents

1.
Theological and medical fragments
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th and 14th centuries

MS. Digby 168 – Part 6

Contents

1.
Table of contents to Robert de Melun, Summa sententiae theologica (formerly part of MS. Digby 197)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th and 14th centuries

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.