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MS. Digby 95

Summary Catalogue no.: 1696

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–10 || B || C

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 95 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Diagrams (hands). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 704)

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; English

MS. Digby 95 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Macer, De uiribus herbarum (English translation)
Language(s): English
2.
Medical and herbal texts and recipes
Language(s): Latin and English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; English

MS. Digby 95 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Medical and herbal texts and recipes
Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; 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). Decoration follows Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 103–4
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 51
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 52
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 73

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.