MS. Digby 220

Summary Catalogue no.: 1821

Robert Grosseteste; Ps.-Robert Grosseteste, works

Language(s): Latin

Albertus Magnus, De causis et processu universitatis

Language(s): Latin

Arnoul of Provence, De ortu scientarum (abbreviation)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

By two hands. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 954):

Good borders.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Windsor, Berkshire, Royal collegiate chapel of St George: "L. E. ¶ [?]" (large flourished letters, followed by a sort of paragraph -- typical Windor style -- cf. particularly Bodley 141 (LC); on fol. ii verso. Rebound, but traces of chain mark show on the first leaf at foot about the middle. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Thomas Allen (MS. fo. 44). 'To M r E. Dyer' (fol. 188v). (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, cols. 235–6

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 96

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 76