A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Digby 51

Summary Catalogue no.: 1652

Contents

1.
Albategni, De scientia astrorum (part)
Language(s): Latin
5.
Astronomical and scientific texts
Language(s): Latin
6.
Albumasar, Flores astrorum
Language(s): Latin
7.
Alkindus, Iudicia (tr. Robert of Ketton)
Language(s): Latin
8.
Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Plato of Tivoli)
Language(s): Latin
9.
Albohali, Liber de iudiciis natiuitatum
Language(s): Latin
10.
Razes, Capitula Almansoris (tr. Plato of Tivoli)
Language(s): Latin
12.
Messahala, Libellus interpretationum
Language(s): Latin
13.
Dorotheus, De occultis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 402:

Diagrams.

Initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; Italian

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).

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.