[Aurora]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Aurora]
Other titles: Aurora (Leeds University Library. Ripon Cathedral Library MS 5)
Classmark: Ripon Cathedral MS 5
Creator(s): Petrus Riga(Author); Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)(Other)
Related people: Hugh
Publication city: [England]
Date(s): [ca. 1140-1160; 1180-1220]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (ii, 100, i leaves) (1 column, ff. 1r-8v: ca. 36 lines; ff. 9r-100v: ca. 42 lines)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372719
Collection group(s): Ripon Cathedral | Medieval Manuscripts
Description
Leaves are missing after ff. 24 and 34, with gaps in the text; ends imperfectly.
Written in protogothic minuscule.
On long-term deposit from Ripon Cathedral.
A letter (1954) about the manuscript from Dr Godfrey Davis, British Museum, is kept with it.
Principal contents: ff. 1r-8v three partial tracts by Hugh of St. Victor, namely De amore sponsi ad sponsam (ff. 1r-v); De verbo incarnato collationes sau disputationes tres (ff. 1v-2r); and Eruditionis didascalicae libri 7 (ff. 2r-8v); ff. 9r-100v Petrus Riga's Aurora, a verse commentary on the Bible.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 210.
Features
Bindings
19th-century binding with pasteboards, uniform with Ripon Cathedral Library MSS 3 and 4.
Provenance
16th-century (?) inscription 'Arthure Dakyns' on f. 34v, possibly the son of George Dakyns of Linton, Yorkshire (as suggested by the note kept within the manuscript). From the library of Anthony Higgin.
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