MS. Digby 72
Summary Catalogue no.: 1673
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Bristol, Gloucestershire, Dominican convent (?) : 'Universis et singulis Christi fidelibus presentes litteras inspecturis Iohannes Hylsey prior ordinis fratrum predicatorum Bristolie salutem' (fol. 4v, otherwise blank except for scribbles). He was prior in 1533 (BRUO 1540, 289–90). (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).
Thomas Allen (1540?--1632). Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665). (MLGB3)
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).
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.