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MS. Digby 223

Summary Catalogue no.: 1824

Contents

Lancelot Cycle, branches 3, 4, 5
Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 552, pl. XLII:

Good miniatures.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 13th century, end ; French, North (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

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 (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 237
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 97
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 76

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (39 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

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.