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MS. Digby 46

Summary Catalogue no.: 1647

Contents

1.
Bernardus Silvester, Experimentarius
Language(s): Latin
2.
Treatise on geomancy
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good miniatures (coloured drawings), copies of MS. Ashmole 304. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 659, pl. LXVI)

History

Origin: 14th century, third quarter ; English

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).

Availability

This item will be on display in the Bodleian Libraries exhibition "Oracles, Omens and Answers" (ST Lee Gallery, Weston Library) from 6 Dec. 2024 to 27 April 2025, and will not be orderable between those dates or for a short period before and after.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (43 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

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.

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