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MS. Digby Rolls 5

Summary Catalogue no.: 1839

Contents

Astronomical calendar.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: roll
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good drawing (arma Christi). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 966)

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated by him 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). Decoration follows Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 248
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 102
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 76

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-08-15: 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.