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MS. Digby 172

Summary Catalogue no.: 1773

Physical Description

Composite: A || B || fols. 25–54 || D || fols. 71–77 || F || G || H

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 172 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Walter Burley, De potentiis animae
Language(s): Latin
2.
Walter Burley, De principiis naturalibus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

MS. Digby 172 – Part 2

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

MS. Digby 172 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Life of St. Catherine of Sweden
Language(s): Latin
2.
Life of St. Petrus Olavi
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Penwork.

History

Origin: 1427–1451 ; English

MS. Digby 172 – Part 4

Contents

1.
Treatises on the Virgin Mary.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century ; English

MS. Digby 172 – Part 5

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Diagram. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 504)

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; English

MS. Digby 172 – Part 6

Contents

1.
Roger of Caen , De professione monachorum
Language(s): Latin
2.
Poems.
Language(s): Latin
3.
Aesop, Fabulae
Language(s): Latin
4.
Petrus Riga, Aurora (part)
Language(s): Latin
5.
Theological texts.
Language(s): Latin
6.
Johannes Presbyter, Epistola Manueli
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

MS. Digby 172 – Part 7

Contents

1.
Commentary on Sidonius, Epistles
Language(s): Latin with Middle High German

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, early ; English

MS. Digby 172 – Part 8

Contents

1.
Exempla
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, early ; English

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 (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 179–80
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 181–2
Quarto Catalogue, col. 183
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 77
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 78
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 75

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.