MS. Digby 201

Summary Catalogue no.: 1802

Language(s): Latin

With continuation to 1451, incorporating:

'Monk of Evesham', Vita Ricardi secundi Variant version no. 4: Trevor Russell Smith, 'Authorship and Further Manuscripts of the Gesta regis Ricardi secundi and Vita Ricardi secundi', Notes and Queries n.s. 67 (2020), 475-480

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Good penwork border, initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1052)

History

Origin: 15th century (after 1451) ; 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). Decoration follows Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 220

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 91

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.

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