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BC MS 31
BC MS 31
[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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BC MS 33
BC MS 33
c.11th century
An incomplete eleventh-century copy of the Psalm commentaries of the fifth-century theologian Theodoret.
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BC MS 1
BC MS 1
[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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BC MS 31/1
BC MS 31/1
[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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BC MS Frag. 1
BC MS Frag. 1
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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Ripon Cathedral MS 1
Ripon Cathedral MS 1
[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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MS 1
MS 1
[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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BC MS 10
BC MS 10
[ca. 1480-1500]
Decoration: 4 full-page arched miniatures within borders decorated with flowers, curled leaves, berries and putti. There are fine 3 to 4-line illuminated initials, on gold grounds and infilled with fl...
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BC MS 100
BC MS 100
[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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BC MS 101
BC MS 101
[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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BC MS 102
BC MS 102
[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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BC MS 103
BC MS 103
[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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BC MS 104
BC MS 104
[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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BC MS 11
BC MS 11
[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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BC MS 12
BC MS 12
[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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MS 122
MS 122
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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MS 123
MS 123
14--
Comprises three tractates on Church officials, the disembodied human soul, and the Year of Jubilee
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MS 124
MS 124
[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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BC MS 13
BC MS 13
[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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BC MS 14
BC MS 14
[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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BC MS 15
BC MS 15
[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...