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MS. Digby 48

Summary Catalogue no.: 1649

Contents

1.
Calendar and astronomical tables (including those of John Somer )
Language(s): Latin
2.
Treatise on compotus
Language(s): Latin
4.
Astrological and other notes
Language(s): Latin
6.
Abraham ibn Ezra, De natiuitatibus
Language(s): Latin
7.
Henri Bate, Treatise on the astrolabe
Language(s): Latin
9.
Astronomical treatises and tables
Language(s): Latin
12.
Albumasar (?), Flores de electionibus
Language(s): Latin
13.
Alcabitius, Liber introductorius
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good miniatures (drawings). Tables from 1433 and 1438. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 894, pl. LXXXV)

History

Origin: 15th century, second quarter (c. 1433–1438) ; 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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 44
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 45–6
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 25
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 71

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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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.