MS. Digby 222

Summary Catalogue no.: 1823

Henry Bracton (attrib.), De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church: Assigned to Christ Church, Canterbury, on the evidence of marks in the margins (see fol. 1r), cf. the note for CCCC S.P.71. (MLGB3: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe).

At foot of fols. 1r, 13r, 21r, 29r, 37r "Dominus Ranð de arundell" (s. xiv in.). See Bracton and Azo, Selden Soc. (MLGB3)

2 o folio: "Hoc autem". (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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 237

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 97

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