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Total number of records: 105

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Medieval Manuscripts105
Ripon Cathedral92
Brotherton Collection13

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fabulous animals31
saints25
god the father16
animals11
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)7
king david6
birds4
ethics2
angels2
christ2

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Hugh2
Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)2
John Chrysostom, Saint (407)1
Petrus Riga1
John Chrysostom1
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1153)1
Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109)1
Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)1
Berengaudus (859-)1
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint1

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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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[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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[Anselm, etc.]
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[Anselm, etc.]

Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109); John Chrysostom, Saint (407); Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1153); Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)

[ca. 1200-1250]

There is a late 13th-century list of contents on f. 1v. Decoration: 4 to 5-line initials for each text in blue and red, with pen ornament in both colours. 2-line initials for chapters, alternating i...

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De officiis
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De officiis

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

[12th century]

Ff. 39-41 were written by a later, possibly 14th-century, hand. Annotations throughout the manuscript are written in three different hands. Decoration: a 2-line initial in red begins the first book ...

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[In epistolas canonicas]
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[In epistolas canonicas]

Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)

[ca. 1100-1150]

Quires numbered at the end. Decoration: 7 large initials on decorated blue, or blue and green grounds, outlined and touched with red. Written in Continental Caroline Minuscule. Principal content...

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[Apocalypsis et Epistolae catholicae, cum glossis]
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[Apocalypsis et Epistolae catholicae, cum glossis]

[ca. 1140-1160]

Decoration: A large decorated incipit word 'Apocalipsis' in blue, red and green for the Apocalypse commentary. A large decorated incipit initial in blue, red and green and running titles in red for th...

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Anastasius
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Anastasius

c13th century

Qaestiones et Responsiones. A copy of the questions and responses relating to pastoral theology attributed to the seventh-century monk Anastasius of Sinai, but probably compiled in the ninth or tenth ...

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[In Apocalypsim; Threni Ieremie cum glossis]
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[In Apocalypsim; Threni Ieremie cum glossis]

Berengaudus (fl. ca. 859)

[ca. 1140-1160]

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 co...

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[Aurora]
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[Aurora]

Petrus Riga; Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)

[ca. 1140-1160; 1180-1220]

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...

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Foliate initial (fol. 1r)
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Foliate initial (fol. 1r)

[ca. 1100-1150]

9-line initial 'I' composed of foliage, in red outline, decorated with a light blue strip of paint.

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