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MS. Digby 40

Summary Catalogue no.: 1641

Physical Description

Composite: six parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Oxford, Oxfordshire, University: 'liber 360' | content' | Liber de compositione astrolabii | ...'. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Cf. BLR 5 (1955) 176. Cf. Inscription in Oriel 32, Harley 33 (and BnF, lat. 7805). (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 40 – Part 1

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 292

Diagrams.

Initial.

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning (?) (after 1147) ; English

MS. Digby 40 – Part 2

Contents

2.
Ps.-Euclid, De speculis
Language(s): Latin
3.
Alkindi, De somno
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English

MS. Digby 40 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Roger of Hereford, Compotus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, first half (?) or between 1177 and 1182 (?) ; English

MS. Digby 40 – Part 4

Contents

1.
Abraham ibn Ezra, De astronomia
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; English

MS. Digby 40 – Part 5

Contents

2.
Astronomical treatise
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English

MS. Digby 40 – Part 6

Contents

1.
Albategni, De scientia astrorum (tr. Plato of Tivoli )
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English

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). Decoration follows Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 36
Quarto Catalogue, col. 37
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 22
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 23
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 71

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 417 (fols. 1-8, 21-51)
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 178

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.