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MS. Digby 56

Summary Catalogue no.: 1657

Physical Description

Composite: A || B || fols. 156–219

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 56 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Bernard de Gordon, works
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

MS. Digby 56 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Biblical commentary in verse
Language(s): Latin
2.
Ps.-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium
Language(s): Latin
3.
Horace, Ars poetica
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English

MS. Digby 56 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Calendar and computistical tables.
Language(s): Latin
2.
Gerland, Compotus (with commentary)
Language(s): Latin
3.
Treatises on compotus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 166:

Good diagrams (some historiated).

Good initials.

History

Origin: c. 1164–1168 (?) ; English

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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 58
Quarto Catalogue, col. 59
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 28
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 29
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 71

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 418
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 119

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.