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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

Fine miniatures, borders, initials. (P&A iii. 815, pl. LXXX)

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)

Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas/Mapping Manuscript Migrations 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.'