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MS. Digby 99

Summary Catalogue no.: 1700

Statutes of the bishops of Norwich, c.1257

Language(s): Latin

Prick of conscience

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Thetford, Norfolk, Augustinian priory of the Holy Sepulchre: 'Frater Iohannes Stanys canonicus Thetfordie constat istum librum [sic]'. (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

'Iste liber constat Margarete Salis de Methewolde, cum magno gaudio et honore Amen.' 'Iste liber pertinet Roberto Joley litterato qui pro eo solvit certum precium'. 'Iohannes Fearneley me tenet 1598'. T. Allen (A. 106). (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

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. 113

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 55

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