A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Digby 218

Summary Catalogue no.: 1819

Physical Description

Composite: ten parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Fols. 70-91: Oxford, Oxfordshire, Merton College (?) : (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Th. Allen (Folio MS. 35). (MLGB3)

A fragment (1 8 wants 1,2; 2 12 , 3 four). Probably the copy of Ailred seen by Bale at Merton (Index, p. 13); Bale has the form Aldredus, as here. Title: 'Liber Aldredi Rievall' abbatis de uinculo perfeccionis; Collacio abbatis cheremonis; Liber Aldredi abbauts de uita inclusarum; Ieronimus ad Nepotianum de uita clericorum' (fol. 91v). (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 218 – Part 1

Contents

1.
John Pecham, Perspectiva communis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; English

MS. Digby 218 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Jacobus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

MS. Digby 218 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Roger Bacon, Opus minus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

MS. Digby 218 – Part 4

Contents

1.
Aelred of Rievaulx, Speculum caritatis (abbreviated version: 'De vinculo perfectionis')
Language(s): Latin
2.
John Cassian, Collationes (extracts)
Language(s): Latin
4.
Jerome, Epistula ad Nepotianum (ep. 52)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

MS. Digby 218 – Part 5

Contents

1.
Robert Grosseteste, Letters (extracts)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

MS. Digby 218 – Part 6

Contents

1.
Roger Bacon, De laudibus mathematicae
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

MS. Digby 218 – Part 7

Contents

1.
Cabbalistic (?) fragment
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century (?) ; English

MS. Digby 218 – Part 8

Contents

1.
Ecclesiastical documents
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century (?) ; English

MS. Digby 218 – Part 9

Contents

1.
Prophecies.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century (?) ; English

MS. Digby 218 – Part 10

Contents

1.
Ranulph Higden, Polychronicon (fragment)
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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.