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MS. Digby 214

Summary Catalogue no.: 1815

Gregory the Great, Registrum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Good and other initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 142)

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; English, Reading

Provenance and Acquisition

Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin (?) : Decoration like and script generally like that in other Reading books (cf. e.g. Digby 184 and Rawl. A.416, Bodley 257). No old flyleaves. (MLGB3: evidence from the style of script or illumination).

Th. Allen (fol. 11). (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. 228

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 94

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