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MS. Digby 69

Summary Catalogue no.: 1670

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 184-91, quire of a 12th century MS. || main MS.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603-1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 69 - Part 1

Contents

Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century ; English

MS. Digby 69 - Part 2

Contents

1.
Medical recipes and texts.
Language(s): Latin and French
2.
Herbals
Language(s): Latin
3.
Antonius Musa , De herba uettonica
Language(s): Latin
4.
Ps.-Apuleius , Herbarium
Language(s): Latin
5.
Macer , De uiribus herbarum
Language(s): Latin
6.
Description of India
Language(s): French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, end - 14th century, beginning ; English

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.
Quarto Catalogue, col. 76
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 77-8
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 36
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 37
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 38
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 72

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

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