MS. Digby 53

Summary Catalogue no.: 1654

Language(s): Latin with a little Anglo-Norman and Middle English

Serlo of Wilton, Poems

Poems and epigrams (by Walter of Châtillon , Hildebert of Le Mans , and others)

Babio (comedy in elegiacs)

4. (fols. 51r–57r)

Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Summa de coloribus rhetoricis

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Musical Notation:

Neums (see van Dijk 1957).

History

Origin: 12th century, end

Provenance and Acquisition

Bridlington, Yorkshire, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin: 'Liber sancte Marie de Brydlyngton' (fol. 68v, s. xv). 'Hic iacet dominus Robertus Danby, prior huius loci qui obiit quinto die Nouembris anno domini M.CCCCC. septimo' (fol. 1r). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Thomas Allen (?1540–1632): '32', 'A.84'. Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665). (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).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 49–50

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 51–2

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 53–4

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 26

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 27

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

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 6: Fragments - Office Books, Rituals, Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 53