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MS. Digby 217

Summary Catalogue no.: 1818

Physical Description

Composite: five parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 217 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Avicenna, De anima
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, end

MS. Digby 217 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Avicenna, Sufficentia
Language(s): Latin
2.
Thomas Aquinas, De ente et essentia (part)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; Italian

MS. Digby 217 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Avendauth, De universalibus
Language(s): Latin
2.
Alkindi, De quintis essentiis
Language(s): Latin
3.
Plato, Timaeus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; Italian (?)

MS. Digby 217 – Part 4

Contents

1.
Isaac Iudaeus, Liber de diffinitionibus
Language(s): Latin
2.
Alkindus, De intellectu
Language(s): Latin
4.
Algazel, Logica
Language(s): Latin
5.
Treatise on logic
Language(s): Latin
6.
Averroes, De substantia orbis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, end ; Italian (?)

MS. Digby 217 – Part 5

Contents

1.
Avicenna, Metaphysica
Language(s): Latin
3.
Alkindus, De intellectu
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, end ; Italian (?)

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. 230
Quarto Catalogue, col. 231
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 94
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 95
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 76

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

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.