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MS. Digby 211

Summary Catalogue no.: 1812

Bede, Historia ecclesiastica

Language(s): Latin and Old English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 308)

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Waltham, Essex, Augustinian abbey of Holy Cross: 'Lij. al. supp[rioris]' (s. xiv). 'Liber Sancte Crucis de Waltham' on fol. 1v, formerly pastedown, (s. xii–xiii). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

T. Allen. Cf. Plummmer, Bedae Op. Hist., 1. cxxiv. (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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 226

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 211

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 75