MS. Digby 183

Summary Catalogue no.: 1784

Albertus Magnus, Mineralia

Language(s): Latin

Alkindus, De radiis stellarum

Language(s): Latin

Ps.-Roger Bacon, De conseruatione iuuentutis

Language(s): Latin

Roger Bacon, Opus Maius (extract)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment, paper

History

Origin: 14th century, end

Provenance and Acquisition

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Clare College (formerly University Hall, formerly Clare Hall): Provenance inferred from the sighting of this MS at Clare Hall by Leland, who quoted a marginal note on Roger Bacon from the copy; this note appears in the bottom margin of fol. 38r. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

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, col. 194

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 84

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