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MS. Digby 65

Summary Catalogue no.: 1666

Physical Description

Composite: three parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 65 – Part 1

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Digby 65 – Part 2

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Digby 65 – Part 3

Contents

Language(s): Latin

2. (fols. 164, 168)
Proses
Incipit: Aula vernat virginalis cuius pars est integralis

Pr. Anal. Hymn. 31.20–1, and Mediaevalia et humanistica 15 (1963), 54–68, ascribed to John of Garland.

Incipit: Aurea rosea vinea poderis

Pr. Anal. Hymn. 46.194.

Incipit: Rex celestis curie regalis familie

Apparently unprinted.

The first two with the first line of music. The last one probably incomplete.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 140 mm.

Layout

(fols. 164, 168) written space 170 × 110 mm. , 20 lines.

Musical Notation:

Space for music left blank; 2 lines of square notation on staves of 4 or 5 red lines.

History

Origin: 13th century ; England

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on 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) and supplementary sources; and (fols. 164, 168) on S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford Vol. 1: Mass Books (typescript, 1957), p. 113b.
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 67–8
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 69–70
Quarto Catalogue, col. 71
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 32
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 33
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 34
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 72

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.

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