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MS. Digby 74

Summary Catalogue no.: 1675

Physical Description

Composite: two parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 74 – Part 1

Contents

Treatise on geomancy
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 16th century ; French (?)

MS. Digby 74 – Part 2

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; German or Netherlandish

Additional Information

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. 80
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 38
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 39
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.