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[Aurora]

Archive Item: Ripon Cathedral MS 5 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: [Aurora]

Other titles: Aurora (Leeds University Library. Ripon Cathedral Library MS 5)

Level: Item

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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