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)
Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.
MS. Digby 168 – Part 1
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
MS. Digby 168 – Part 2
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 13th and 14th centuries
MS. Digby 168 – Part 3
Contents
, De gestis Britonum et Anglorum
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 13th and 14th centuries
MS. Digby 168 – Part 4
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Penwork (fols. 211–231).
History
MS. Digby 168 – Part 5
Contents
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
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
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.