MS. Digby 5
Summary Catalogue no.: 1606
Physical Description
Composite
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Fols. 1-72: Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church (?) : 'b'' (?) top right fol. 1r (faint). (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).
Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.
MS. Digby 5 – Part 1
Contents
, Declamationes
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
MS. Digby 5 – Part 2
Contents
, Astronomical Calendar
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Diagrams, tables. (Pächt and Alexander, iii. 683)
History
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).
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 183
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.