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[In Apocalypsim; Threni Ieremie cum glossis]

Archive Item: Ripon Cathedral MS 4 Contains records with digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: [In Apocalypsim; Threni Ieremie cum glossis]

Other titles: Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis; Bible; Bible; Threni Ieremie cum glossis

Level: Item

Classmark: Ripon Cathedral MS 4

Creator(s): Berengaudus (fl. ca. 859)(Author)

Publication city: [England]

Date(s): [ca. 1140-1160]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 1 v. (i, 85, i leaves) (ff.1r-60r: 1 column, 29 lines; ff. 61v-62r: 2 columns; 62v-85v: 1 column with gloss on all four sides)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372718

Collection group(s): Ripon Cathedral | Medieval Manuscripts

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Description

Decoration: 2 large initials infilled with foliage and beasts, and 4 smaller initials in colours.


Written in littera minuscula protogothica textualis.


In the commentary on the Apocalypse, lines containing the biblical text have been marked in the margin with a tironian 'et' symbol.


On long-term deposit from Ripon Cathedral Library.


Principal contents: ff. 1r-60r Commentary on the Apocalypse by Berengaudus (Berengaudus super. Apocalypsim); ff. 61v-85v Gloss on the Lamentations of Jeremiah (Threni Ieremie cum glossis).


See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 209-210.

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19th-century binding with pasteboards. At one time probably bound with Ripon Cathedral Library MS 3, as suggested by the content note in that volume, f.1r: 'Duo libri apocalipsis...'.

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