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MS. Digby 215

Summary Catalogue no.: 1816

Contents

2.
Astronomical treatises.
Language(s): Latin
4.
Campanus of Novara, Theorica planetarum
Language(s): Latin
5.
Alfraganus, Liber de aggregationibus
Language(s): Latin
6.
Campanus of Novara, Compotus maior
Language(s): Latin
7.
Alhazen, De crepusculis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 808:

Good diagrams.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italian, North

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. 228
Quarto Catalogue, col. 229
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 94
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 75

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 212

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.