MS. Digby 176

Summary Catalogue no.: 1777

Astronomical treatises and tables.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Fols. 1-86: Oxford, Oxfordshire, Merton College: 'Merton' (fol. 1v). 'Liber Magistri Willelmi Reed Episcopi Cicestrensis cuius partem habuit ex dono Reverendi domini sui Magistri Nicholai de Sandewyco. partem emit de executoribus Reverendi patris domini Thome de Bradwardine Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, partem emit de executoribus Magistri Ricardi Camsale, partem ipse Magister Willelmus scripsit et partem scribi fecit. Oretis igitur pro singulis supradictis et pro benefactoribus eorundem et fidelium animabus a purgatorio liberandis' (fol. 1v). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

2 o folio: 'Notandum quod'. Powicke, Books of Merton, no. 537. (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

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, cols. 187–8

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 189–90

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 81

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 82

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 75