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MS. Digby 169

Summary Catalogue no.: 1770

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–90 || fols. 91–203

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 169 – Part 1

Contents

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (tr. Leonardo Bruni )
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 968)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 968:

Good border.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Florence (?)

MS. Digby 169 – Part 2

Contents

Virgil, Aeneid (incomplete)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 297)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Florence

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). Decoration follows Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 178
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 76
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 77
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 74

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.