MS. Digby 4

Summary Catalogue no.: 1605

Physical Description

Composite

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church: "Tractatus super canonem misse ‘Thome de Stureya’" (fol. iv recto). (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription consisting of a title or, when a pressmark, a personal name in the genitive case).

Thomas Allen (1540?--1632) (A 127). Richard Latewann (s. xvii 2 ). (MLGB3)

London, BL, Cotton Galba A.xix and Oxford, Bodl., Digby 4 formed one volume. See N. R. Ker in Medium Ӕvum 5, at. p. 117. (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 4 – Part 1

Richard the Premonstratensian, De canone missae

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Digby 4 – Part 2

Poems. (by Walter of Châtillon and others)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Digby 4 – Part 3

Theological notes.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Digby 4 – Part 4

Macer, De uiribus herbarum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century

MS. Digby 4 – Part 5

Poema morale.

Language(s): Middle English

Poems

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

Additional Information

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, cols. 3–4

Quarto Catalogue, col. 5

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 8

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 9

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 70