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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

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

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

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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 172
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 173–4
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 175–6
Quarto Catalogue, col. 177
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 75
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 76
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.