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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. (fols. 104-5 / 109-10)
Ars notoria
ed. Julien Véronèse, L'Ars notoria au Moyen Age (Florence, 2007), p. 298
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).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 231–2
Quarto Catalogue, col. 233
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 95
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 96
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 76

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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