Poetic miscellany including Piers Plowman (C text) and the Digby poems
MS. Digby 102
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
From Medieval manuscripts in Oxford libraries
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Title
Poetic miscellany including Piers Plowman (C text) and the Digby poems
Shelfmark
MS. Digby 102
Associated place
Westminster
Date
15th century, second quarter
Language
Latin
Middle English (1100-1500)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii (modern parchment) + ii (medieval endleaves) + 142 + ii (modern parchment) leaves
Hands
Horobin (2010) argues that the manuscript is the work of a single scribe working over several stints, a clerk working for the Brewers’ Guild during the opening decades of the fifteenth century.
Binding
Standard Digby binding (Delisle type I). Clasps missing.
Acquisition
Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.
Provenance
Pen trials, early 16th century (fol. iii recto).
Rebus, R A E O (?) and I (?) (fols. 97v, 139v); R (fol. 128r), 16th century?
Thomas Allen; Allen/Digby inventory A·139 (fol. 1r).
Kenelm Digby (inscribed, fol. 1r).
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From Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts
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Title
Will. Langland's Vision concerning Piers the Ploughman; A series of poems chiefly religious; Metrical paraphrase of the Seven Penitential Psalms, and others
Shelfmark
MS. Digby 102
Date
15th century, second quarter
Language
English
Physical extent
139 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 1428 acquired by the Bodleian Library (44). Belonged in whole or in part to Thomas Allen of Gloucester Hall.
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Collection contents
Will. Langland's Vision concerning Piers the Ploughman; A series of poems chiefly religious; Metrical paraphrase of the Seven Penitential Psalms, and others
