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MS. Digby 75

Summary Catalogue no.: 1676

Physical Description

Composite: three parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 75 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Herbal
Language(s): Latin
2.
Medical recipes
Language(s): Middle English
3.
Trotula
Language(s): Latin
4.
Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Epistola de magnete (incomplete)
Language(s): Latin
5.
Medical and scientific texts.
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
6.
Ps.-Ptolemy, Centiloquium
Language(s): Latin
7.
Astrological treatise
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper

History

Origin: 15th century (in part 1458) ; English

MS. Digby 75 – Part 2

Contents

2.
Astrological treatise
Language(s): Latin
3.
Arithmetical treatise
Language(s): Latin
4.
Disputacio corporis et animae
Language(s): Latin
5.
Adam of Aldersbach, Summula Raymundi
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

MS. Digby 75 – Part 3

Contents

1.
John Mirk, Manuale sacerdotis
Language(s): Latin
2.
Scientific text in verse (extract from the Legend of St Michael in the South English Legendary)
Language(s): Middle English
4.
Treatise on calendar
Language(s): Latin
5.
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

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, cols. 81–2
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 39
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 72

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 420 (73-91)

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.