MS. Digby 68

Summary Catalogue no.: 1669

Astronomical tables and treatises

Language(s): Latin

Albumasar, Ysagoga minor (tr. Adelard of Bath)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; English (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Salisbury, Wiltshire, Franciscan convent: 'De conventu Sar'' (s. xv) erased, but legible under u. v. light, on top margin of fol. 1r, and 'R ·II·' over an earlier pressmark. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

T. Allen. K. Digby. (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, col. 76

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 36

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 72