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MS. Digby 59

Summary Catalogue no.: 1660

Contents

1.
Bede, Life of St. Cuthbert
Language(s): Latin
3.
Life of Bede
Language(s): Latin
4.
Ailred of Rievaulx, Vita S. Edwardi
Language(s): Latin
5.
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica (extracts relating to visions)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 301, pl. XXVI)

History

Origin: c. 1200 ; English

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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 63
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.