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)

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, cols. 79–80

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 38

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