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Total number of records: 758

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Medieval Manuscripts758
Brotherton Collection642
Ripon Cathedral100

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saints200
christ115
virgin mary104
fabulous animals96
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birds67
angels58
god the father48
fruits47
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)46

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Porphyry (234-305)4
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Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos4
Theon of Alexandria4
Theon4
Hugh3
Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)3
Jesus Christ1

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Materials for Franciscan use
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Materials for Franciscan use

[ca. 1440-1460]

15th-century table of contents inside the front cover. Written in German cursive book script. Principal contents: manual for Franciscan friars with various texts, including ff. 1r-111r Topics prov...

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[Sermons, etc.]
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[Sermons, etc.]

Henricus de Frimaria

[1444-1481 ?]

Bound in a composite volume with three printed works. Red highlighting on ff. 37r-40r, 49r, and 95r-107r. Written in German cursive, by nine different scribes. Bound with three 15th-century publ...

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[Preces]
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[Preces]

[ca. 1500-1520]

ff. iii, 214-218 are contemporary ruled vellum flyleaves. Decoration: 8 full-page borders in designs of flowers, birds and insects on decorated gold ground. 11-line (or smaller), initials throughout...

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Psychomachia, by Aurelius Prudentius Clemens

Clemens, Aurelius Prudentius

13--?

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[Preces]
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[Preces]

[ca. 1500-1520]

Decoration: 41 full-page miniatures. 3- and 2-line initials in blue and red throughout. Written in hybrida. Principal contents: Collections of prayers (ff. 1r-11v, 12r-24v, 25v-87v, 88v-93, 93r-10...

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Legenda aurea sanctorum, by Jacobus de Voragine

de Voragine, Jacobus Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)

c.1312

Includes a 13th century manuscript of Josephus and a 13th century Breviary bound into the codex as fly-leaves

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Tractatus de statu et officio prelatorum; de animabus exutis a corporibus; et de anno jubileo, by Jacobus de Clusa

de Clusa, Jacobus (1381-1465)

14--

Comprises three tractates on Church officials, the disembodied human soul, and the Year of Jubilee

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[Evangelistarium]
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[Evangelistarium]

[ca. 1480-1520]

Decoration: A large incipit initial in blue with a white pattern, and decorated with a leafy design in red, blue, green and purple, and extending as a floral border in the inner margin. In the lower m...

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Ordo visitandi domos ordinis Carthusiensis; etc
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Ordo visitandi domos ordinis Carthusiensis; etc

Guido de Pisis

[ca. 1480-1500]

Vertical catch words. Decoration: 3-line initial in gold on a blue and green ground and a penwork border in purple with flowers and a bird (f. 1r). 2-line initials in blue and red throughout for beg...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1450-1500]

Decoration: 5 (2 to 6-line) initials in blue or pink patterned in white, infilled with flowers, and on gold grounds, within full framed floral borders including designs of hens, berries, a bird and a ...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

Braddyll family

[ca. 1470-1480]

f. iii is a medieval flyleaf. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature depicting the burial service and 1 smaller miniature of the Virgin and Child, defaced in the Reformation period, and partially repaint...

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