Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 72, part II | |
| MS Appellation: | SC 1673 |
| Title: | Astrolabe |
| Author: | Chaucer |
| Contents: | Astrological tables; Treatises from both 14th and 15th centuries; Astrolabe (imperfect) ff79-109 |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1425-1450 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.               |
| Material: | Combination |
| No of Folios: | In Astrolabe section, part 2: 29 paper + 3 vellum |
| Quiring: | 1(14), 2(14), 3 |
| Signatures: | Some remain in the first quire and would have been ai-avij. |
| Catchwords: | None |
| Page Size: | 210 x 138 |
| Writing Space: | 154 x 100 |
| Miscellaneous Info: | The different tracts were probably assembled by Allen himself. |
| Further Information: | In the ownership of Thomas Allen whose books went to Digby in 1632 on his death and thence to the Bodleian in 1634. Macray, W. D. 'Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues: IX Digby Manuscripts', a reproduction of the 1883 catalogue with notes on Macray's descriptions of the manuscript by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, Oxford Bodleian Library 1999. |