Digby

Manuscripts collected by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), given to the Bodleian in 1634-9.

Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, was bequeathed in 1632 the scientific and historical manuscripts of Thomas Allen, his tutor at Gloucester Hall, Oxford. He presented these to the Bodleian in 1634.