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MS. Digby 58

Summary Catalogue no.: 1659

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–37 || B || C

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 58 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Astrological texts
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Mutilated. Pächt and Alexander iii. 1166:

Good diagrams.

Good borders.

Good initials (some later additions (?))

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; English

MS. Digby 58 – Part 2

Contents

2.
Sermons
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

MS. Digby 58 – Part 3

Contents

1.
John Peckham, Constitutiones (1281)
Language(s): Latin
2.
Statutes of the Council of Reading (1279). (part)
Language(s): Latin
3.
Peter of Oxford , Summula confessionis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; 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. 62
Quarto Catalogue, col. 63
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 29
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 30
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 71

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.