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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)

Ptolemy; Theon of Alexandria; Porphyry (234-305); Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos

[14--? ]

Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...

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Theodoretus Interpretatio in Psalmos

c.11th century

An incomplete eleventh-century copy of the Psalm commentaries of the fifth-century theologian Theodoret.

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

[ca. 142-?]

Four gatherings of 12 (Calendar), 8, 8 and 8. Leaves missing after the first two gatherings (Calendar; Gospel Sequences and Obsecro te) and the last two gatherings (Penitential psalms; Penitential psa...

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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest
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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)

Ptolemy; Theon of Alexandria; Porphyry (234-305); Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos

[14--? ]

Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...

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Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts
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Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts

14th century

Comprises: 1) a leaf from a late 14th-century (?) Book of Hours, with a large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The miniature is surrounded by a full decorated borde...

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[Biblia]
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[Biblia]

[ca. 1260]

Decoration: biblical books and divisions of Psalms have historiated 9-line initials in colours, on gold grounds, and with ornamental bars extending to the margins that are often decorated by birds and...

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Le manuel des pecchez

William of Waddington

[ca. 1300-1350]

Includes catchwords at the end of quires. Decoration: 8-line incipit initial 'L' in blue and red, infilled with a leaf decoration in red; 2-line initials in blue, with red ornament, throughout; 1-li...

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[Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Louis XI of France]
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[Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Louis XI of France]

[ca. 1461-1483]

Decoration: 64 miniatures within roundels with toothed edges, 58-83 mm in diameter. 7-line incipit initial 'C' in blue on decorated gold ground. 4-line initials in gold, on pink and blue grounds patte...

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Addiciones super postille biblie magistri Nicolai de Lira
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Addiciones super postille biblie magistri Nicolai de Lira

Paulus a Mercatello; Guilielmus Brito; Moneliensis, Franciscus; Paul of Burgos (1351-1435); Döring, Mathias (1400-1469); Nicholas, of Lyra commentator (1270-1349); Jenson, Nicolas (1420-1480); Johann von Köln (1471-1491); Herbort, Johann (1484); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[1453-1454]

Continuous contemporary foliation at foot of each recto leaf. Decoration: 2 to 8-line initials in red. Running titles, rubrics, and some underlining, in red. Capitals touched in red. Geometrical dra...

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

John Sintram; Bonaventura Saint, Cardinal (1217-1274); Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)

[1412 (-1425?)]

There are 2-line initials in red or the ink of the text. The pastedowns are from a 12th-century sanctoral of a missal, with the vigil and day of Saint Lawrence on the rear board, and (inverted) Sain...

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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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