Digby family. Spiritual exercises of the Digby family

Folger bibliographic ID: 233120
Folger call number: V.a.473
Folger holdings ID: 281817
Accession Number: MS Add 802

A collection of readings from Catholic authors, apparently gathered for the use of a particular person, possibly a lady of the Digby family of Buckinghamshire. Includes stories of saints and devout women; extracts from Caesarius' Dialogue (on Miracles), Blosius, and Cassian's Collationes patrum; and several short works such as Derections for the right use of Ideots devotions, or the desiers of love (p. 176), Some few advices to the reader that is but yet a beginner about the use of the ensuing exercises of desiers of love (p. 181), An exercise of thanksgiving for received benefits, A similitude of a pilgrim going to Jerusalem (p. 274), and An exercise of true and perfect resignation of ourselves into the hands of God (p. 339)

General notes

Pages 24-27, 30-31, 34-65, 68-79, 82-95, 93-109, 109-125, 130-167, 176-181, 188-199, 217-241, [2]41-351. Pages 83-95 and 246-351 modern numbering with many pages missing. Gatherings numbered. Written in several hands and/or styles Possibly related to other devotional manuscripts produced by the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and Paris, based on handwriting stints and content. Some passages are from manuscript treatises written by Augustine Baker, including Derections for the right vse of Ideots deuotions Verse listed in the Folger index of first lines Some pages bear childish drawings and scribbles Partial contents tipped in at end. Full list of contents in curatorial file Parchment from pastedown removed; now Folger MS X.d.516 (16) Katherine Digby, 1657 -- W. Stokes, no. 169 -- Mary Stokes MS Formerly Folger MS Add 802 Acquired from B. Weinreb, Ltd., London, 1982 This record contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email HamnetHelp@folger.edu for assistance

Extended title: Spiritual exercises of the Digby family ca. 1650

Women Christian saints Devotional exercises Spiritual life Fathers of the church Catholics

author: Digby family
associated with: Blois, Louis de, 1506-1566
associated with: Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435
associated with: Baker, Augustine, 1575-1641
former owner: Stokes, Mary
former owner: Stokes, W.
former owner: Digby, Katherine
associated with: Caesarius, of Heisterbach, approximately 1180-approximately 1240