MS. Digby 81
Summary Catalogue no.: 1682
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MS. Digby 81 – Part 1
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MS. Digby 81 – Part 2
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Provenance
Tavistock, Devon, Benedictine Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Rumon (?): a very scrappy series of chronological notes - accessions and deaths of kings and bishops, chiefly - ending 1256. The dates of the abbots of Tavistock are given. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).
MS. Digby 81 – Part 3
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MS. Digby 81 – Part 4
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MS. Digby 81 – Part 5
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Decoration
Good miniatures and a coloured drawing. (Pächt and Alexander i. 770)
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MS. Digby 81 – Part 6
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Provenance
Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: At top of fol. 133r (s. xv): "·c·" and "splendement". (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
"Christopher Watson, Dunelmensis, 1573, etat. 27." (cf. Laud Misc. 207, Vesp. A.vi, Tit. A.ii). (MLGB3)
(fol. 134r) Hymnus Bedae de circulo magno (irrelevant). Mynors no. 24. (MLGB3)
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Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.