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Brotherton Collection12
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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Ripon Cathedral1
Cookery Collection1

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fabulous animals3
recipes1
theology1
psalters1
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)1
birds1
cooking1
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Archive Collection

DIARY OF RALPH THORESBY

1708-1712

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Recipes for cookery and household remedies
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Recipes for cookery and household remedies

16--

Contemporary pagination (irregular) 3-4, 10-11, 19-20, 23-48, 51-68, 69-71, 76-99, 104-109, 112-115, 122-127, 130-143, 148-167, 170-180. Commencing from the other end, modern ink pagination (irregular...

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Miscellaneous theological notes and summaries, compiled by Anthony Higgin

Higgin, Anthony

c.1575-1615

Contains: (1) ff.1-22: a catalogue of heresies, numbered 7-88; ends 'Finis Catalogi: quanquam quod hic pollicetur Augustinus non prestat'; (2) ff.23-48: 'Institutiones sodalitatis Beatae Mariae Virgin...

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Gold initial (fol. 14r)
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Gold initial (fol. 14r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

5-line initial 'S' in gold on a red/blue background with white penwork ornamentation of flowers and leaves. The initial extends into a 1/4 bar-frame border in gold and red/blue. The rest of the border...

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Floral border (fol. 218v)
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Floral border (fol. 218v)

[ca. 1450-1500]

3-line initial 'D' in gold, decorated with blue penwork. 1/4 bar-frame border in gold and red/blue. The rest of the border is decorated with hairline tendrils supporting barbed quatrefoils, trefoils, ...

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King David's Messenger (fol. 39r)
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King David's Messenger (fol. 39r)

[ca. 1440-1460]

The historiated border includes King David's messenger carrying a scroll.

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Pig and bird (fol. 25r)
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Pig and bird (fol. 25r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

3-line initial 'B' in gold on a red/blue background with white penwork ornamentation of flowers, and decorated with two small quatrefoils at corners. The initial extends into a 1/4 bar-frame column bo...

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[Psalterium]
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[Psalterium]

[ca. 1450-1500]

Decoration: initials in gold on halved blue and red grounds patterned with white penwork. The initials extend into bar borders, usually along one side only, with further decoration in the margings in ...

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Floral border (fol. 52r)
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Floral border (fol. 52r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

4-line initial 'I' in gold and blue, decorated with green and red penwork. 1/4 bar-frame border in gold and blue. The borders are decorated mainly with barbed quatrefoils, gold discs, green leaves and...

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Floral border (fol. 67r)
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Floral border (fol. 67r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

5-line initial 'D' gold, on red/blue background decorated with white penwork of flowers and leaves. 1/4 bar-frame border in gold and blue which develops into hairlines and vines supporting flowers: ba...

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Floral border (fol. 83r)
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Floral border (fol. 83r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

4-line initial 'G' in gold, on red/blue background, infilled with an aroid flower. Floral border composed of hairline tendrils connecting trefoils, golden pine cones, small green leaves, a large aroid...

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