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MS. Digby 198

Summary Catalogue no.: 1799

Contents

1.
John Fortescue, De laudibus legum Angliae
Language(s): Latin
2.
John Fortescue, The Governance of England
Language(s): Middle English
3.
John Fortescue, Declaration on Certain Writings Sent out of England (incomplete)
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; 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. 218
Quarto Catalogue, col. 219
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 90
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 75

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.