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83r: photo by Matthew Holford, Bodleian Library) 204v) continues without break in the Digby portion in the same scribal hand, showing it was originally one work (Bodleian Library, MS Digby 77, f. The text of the Trinity manuscript (TCD MS 514, f. Non erunt…’ (Bodleian Library, MS Digby 77, f. The text continues without break in the same hand on the top line of the Digby manuscript, ‘eternum. The text of Pope Innocent III’s De miseria humanae conditionis ends imperfectly, breaking off in chapter 3, book 26 ‘Discedite a me maligni in ignem’ on the last line (TCD MS 514, f. Barker-Benfield, (ed.), Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues: St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury (London, 2008) volume 2, item BA1.900). There are several signs that demonstrate the portion of the Digby manuscript formerly belonged in the Trinity miscellany (B.C.
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The missing portion of text was bound with a second manuscript later owned by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), Allen’s former student to whom he bequeathed the majority of his books, now housed in the Bodleian Libraries as the Digby collection. 1625-1656), whose collection is now housed in Trinity College Library, Dublin. The miscellany was acquired by Allen’s acquaintance and fellow antiquarian, James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (r. It was during this period that the portion of the miscellany manuscript was separated and added to the second book. The miscellany may have been later owned by English mathematician and antiquarian Sir Thomas Allen (1542-1632), who was an avid collector of works of history and sciences from monastic centres. 3r)įollowing the Dissolution of the abbey in 1538, the books of the library were destroyed or dispersed with many volumes acquired by private individual owners. Opening page of De excidio Troiae historia by Dares Phrygius (TCD MS 514, f. He later donated this book to the abbey and the volume is recorded as item number 900 on the 15th-century library catalogue of St Augustine’s Abbey (now TCD MS 360) explored in a previous blog. 1290-133), a monk of St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury. This manuscript was compiled in the early 14th century by John of London (fl. The Trinity miscellany is made up of 15 separate texts relating to history and theology, including Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae (‘The History of the Kings of Britain’), A history by Dares Phrygius on the fall of Troy, Pope Innocent III’s De miseria humanae conditionis (‘On the Misery of the Human Condition’), and Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger’s Naturales quaestiones (‘Natural Questions’). In this post, we explore the ways of identifying the separated manuscript portion through written and visual signs. One such example is a miscellany book of historical and religious works ( now TCD MS 514), with a section of text missing and now part of a second compilation manuscript ( now Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 77). When modern readers encounter medieval books, they are not always in their original form and the contents of many manuscripts have been altered over time by owners and institutions.