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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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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...