MS. Digby 212

Summary Catalogue no.: 1813

Physical Description

Composite: three parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Merton College: The contents of fols. 1–10 (originally fols. 44–53) agree with that of MS. seen by Bale at Merton (see Powicke, Books of Merton, p. 256). (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 212 – Part 1

Robert of Leicester (fl. 1294), works

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

MS. Digby 212 – Part 2

Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis (i-iv.16)

Language(s): Latin

Abraham Ibn Ezra, De nativitatibus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

MS. Digby 212 – Part 3

Abraham Ibn Ezra, works

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

Additional Information

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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 226

Quarto Catalogue, col. 227

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 93

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