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MS. Digby 233

Summary Catalogue no.: 1834

Contents

1.
Aegidius de Columna, De regimine principum (English translation by John Trevisa )
Language(s): English
2.
Vegetius, De re militari (English translation by John Walton made in 1408)
Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 815, pl. LXXX:

Fine miniatures.

Fine borders.

Fine initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English, Bristol (?)

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 (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 243–4
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 100
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 76

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (13 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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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.