MS. Digby 44

Summary Catalogue no.: 1645

Commentaries on Aristotle, Physics (partly by Johannes Versoris )

Language(s): Latin

John Duns Scotus (?), Quaestiones on Aristotle, De anima

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Written by Johannes Saundyre , fol. 185. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1124)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1124:

Good borders.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, end (before 1485) ; English, Oxford

Provenance and Acquisition

Oxford, Oxfordshire, All Souls' College: 'Liber collegii Animarum Omnium fidelium defunctorum in Oxon. ex dono magistri Iohannis Saundyr' ... nuper socii eiusdem collegii cuius anime propicietur deus amen' (fol. 2r at foot). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

2 o folio: 'eleuantur quidem' = Vellum inventory fol. 24r 'Questionista super paruis naturalibus 2 o fo eleuantur'. (MLGB3)

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, col. 40

Quarto Catalogue, col. 41

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 24

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 71