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Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection)

1100-1499

Leeds University Library holds medieval manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 15th century.

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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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Statutes, (22) of Henry VIII [ (Anno vicesimo secundo Henrici Octavi.)
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Statutes, (22) of Henry VIII [ (Anno vicesimo secundo Henrici Octavi.)

Great Britain

[1551]

Printed copy of a collection of 16 acts, including "An acte concernyng outlandishe people cllyng them selfes Egiptians" [Gypsies/Travellers] (cap. 10) and "An acte concerning how aged, poore, and impo...

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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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The Creation (image 1)
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The Creation (image 1)

[ca. 1461-1483]

Six roundels depicting God's creation: the separation of sky and earth (1), creation of trees and plants (2), creation of waters and fishes (3), creation of animals (4), creation of angels (5), and th...

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Calendar: January (fol. 1r)
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Calendar: January (fol. 1r)

[ca. 142-?]

The double-compartment miniature has Janus looking in both directions while dining, and the zodiacal sign of Aquarius (the water carrier). The scenes in the historiated border are: the stoning of St S...

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Calendar: January (fol. 1v)
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Calendar: January (fol. 1v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border has St. Agnes of Rome holding a palm branch and with her symbol, the lamb; unidentified abbot or a monk holding a palm branch and a book; Pope Marcellus I falling from a horse; ...

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Calendar: February (fol. 2r)
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Calendar: February (fol. 2r)

[ca. 142-?]

The double-compartment miniature has a man warming his feet at a fire, and the zodiacal sign of Pisces (the fish). The scenes in the historiated border are: St. Brigid of Ireland holding a lantern; po...

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Calendar: February (fol. 2v)
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Calendar: February (fol. 2v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border has an unidentified bishop; St. Peter, seated, holding a book and his symbol, the key (corresponding to the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, "Cathedra Sancti Petri"); possibly (...

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