MS. Digby 19

Summary Catalogue no.: 1620

Physical Description

Composite

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Merton College: The entry '19 fflowr' shows that the book came to Merton. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

2 o folio: 'testimonium horrens'. Powicke, Merton Books, no. 562: 'Liber M. Willelmi Reed Episcopi Cicestrensis quem emit a domino Thome (recte: Thoma) Tryllek Episcopo Roffensi. Oretis igitur pro utroque' (fol. 1r). (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 19 – Part 1

Ailred of Rievaulx, De genealogia regum anglorum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 268)

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; English

MS. Digby 19 – Part 2

Walter of Wimborne, Ave virgo

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; 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, col. 14

Quarto Catalogue, col. 15

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 13

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 14

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 70