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MS. Digby 196

Summary Catalogue no.: 1797

Contents

1.
Marco Polo, De conditionibus et consuetudinibus orientalium regionum (fragment and extracts; Latin tr.)
Language(s): Latin
2.
Geographical texts
Language(s): Latin
3.
Lapidary
Language(s): Latin
4.
Prophecies
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman
5.
Historical notes
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
6.
Religious notes and extracts
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
7.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (extract)
Language(s): Latin
8.
Ranulph Higden, Polychronicon (extracts)
Language(s): Latin
9.
Chronicles of England
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
10.
Lists of names
Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

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. 212
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 213–14
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 215–16
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 217–18
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 89
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 90
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 75

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

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.