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MS. Digby 2

Summary Catalogue no.: 1603

Contents

1.
Astronomical tables
Language(s): Latin
2.
Religious poems
Language(s): Latin, Middle English, Anglo-Norman
3.
Calendar
Language(s): Latin
4.
Treatises on calendar
Language(s): Latin
5.
Logical treatise ('Fallacie')
Language(s): Latin
7.
William of Montoriel, Commentary on Aristotle, Praedicamenta (end; beginning in MS Digby 24)
Language(s): Latin
8.
Treatise on the quadrant
Language(s): Latin
11.
Dictaminal formulary
Language(s): Latin
12.
Grammatical treatise
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Music (see van Dijk 1957).

History

Origin: 13th century, end (in part 1282) ; English, Oxford (?)

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, cols. 1–2
Quarto Catalogue, col. 3
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 8
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 9
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 70

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Bibliography

    Online resources:

    DIAMM: Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 416
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 125

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.