MS. Digby 92

Summary Catalogue no.: 1693

Physical Description

Composite: three parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church (?) : M. R. James (ALCD, p. 527) ascribes to Christ Church, Canterbury, on strength of item 6: nota "per tabulas domini Iohannis Trendeley, nuper monachi ecclesie Christi Cant. cuius anime prospicietur deus, amen." (fol. 15r). (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Thomas Allen (1540?--1632) A. D. 1596, no. 42. (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 92 – Part 1

Astrological treatises and notes.

Language(s): Latin

William Reed, Tabulae Oxonienses cum canonibus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper, parchment

History

Origin: 14th century

MS. Digby 92 – Part 2

Alexander de Hales (?), Quaestiones

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper, parchment

History

Origin: 14th century

MS. Digby 92 – Part 3

Alexander de Hales, Exoticon (later part; earlier part in MS. Auct. F. 6. 8 fols. 1–12)

Language(s): Latin

Ps.-Boethius, De scholarum disciplina

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper, parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

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, cols. 101–102

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 50

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 51

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 73