Godwin of Salisbury, etc.
MS. Digby 96
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Godwin of Salisbury, etc.
Shelfmark
MS. Digby 96
Date
12th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
5-line initial in red, fol. 8r; 2 line initial in red, fol. 30r.
Sketch of a tonsured cleric, fol. 75r.
Acquisition
Presented by him to the Bodleian in 1634.
Provenance
Annotations in pencil, 15th cent. (?), and ink, 16th cent.
Possibly the manuscript seen at the Benedictine abbey of Abingdon by John Leland (English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, B3.2)
Possibly the manuscript recorded by John Bale 'ex museo Thome Keye, Oxon.' (Index Brittanie Scriptorum, pp. 96, and cf. p. 478): Thomas Kay, master of University College Oxford, d. 1572 (Emden, BRUO 1501–1540, pp. 325–6, 723).
Thomas Allen, 1542–1632.
Given by Allen to Sir Robert Cotton, 1571–1631, as recorded in the 1621 catalogue of Cotton's library (BL MS Harley 6018, fol. 131), where this is no. 359: cf. '359' (fol. 1, cropped).
Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665
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Title
'Meditationes Godwini, cantoris Salesberie, ad Rainilvam reclusam'
Shelfmark
MS. Digby 96
Date
Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
Language
Latin
Physical extent
74 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 1586 acquired by the Bodleian Library (202)
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Collection contents
'Meditationes Godwini, cantoris Salesberie, ad Rainilvam reclusam'
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Connections
People associated with this object
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Clement, I, Pope, pseudo
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Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435
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Kay, Thomas, master of University College Oxford, -1572
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John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
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Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
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Patrick, Bishop of Dublin
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Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631
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Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665
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Godwin, of Salisbury, fl. c. 1109-1122
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Allen, Thomas, 1542-1632
