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MS. Digby 208

Summary Catalogue no.: 1809

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 199:

Fine border.

Fine diagrams.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; Italian

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 (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 224
Quarto Catalogue, col. 225
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 92
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.