A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Digby 200

Summary Catalogue no.: 1801

Contents

Richard of St.-Victor, works
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good and other initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 329)

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English, Reading

Provenance and Acquisition

Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Hic est liber sancte Marie de Radinge ...'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Th. Allen. (MLGB3)

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). Decoration follows Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.