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MS. Digby 211

Summary Catalogue no.: 1812

Contents

1.
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica
Language(s): Latin
2.
Cuthbert, Epistola de obitu Bedae
Language(s): Latin (with Bede's death-song in Old English)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i (paper) + 2 + 108 + 1 + ii leaves
Dimensions (binding): 336 × 230 × 37 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 326 × 225 mm.

Collation

13 quires of 8 leaves, followed by a quire of 5 leaves.

Layout

240 × 154 mm. 240 × 69 mm. 13

Hand(s)

One hand (southern textualis) in a dark brown ink.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 308: Good initials.

Flourished initials in red, green, and blue with red and blue contrasting. On fol. 1r at a height of eight lines, then marking the start of a new book at a height of four lines, and marking the start of a new chapter at a height of two lines.

Coloured initials marking headings at a height of one line.

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).

Thomas 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

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Orianne Neyroud and Noah Leach as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 29th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 4th June 2025.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Orianne Neyroud and Noah Leach as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 29th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 4th June 2025.