Miscellany notebook on theological subjects, in English, Latin, and Greek, compiled by Anthony Higgin
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Miscellany notebook on theological subjects, in English, Latin, and Greek, compiled by Anthony Higgin
Classmark: Ripon Cathedral MS 16
Creator(s): Higgin, Anthony
Date(s): c.1612
Language: English; Latin; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Size and medium: 1 vol. (211 ff.)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6632
Collection group(s): Ripon Cathedral
Description
Contains notes for sermons and summaries of theological works, including: (1) f.39: Concio 4a, 1 Cor.11.28; (2) f.42: Concio 5a, 1 Cor.11.28; (3) f.42v: De nobilitate; (4) f.82: Headed 'Bilson's suruey' [i.e. 'The suruey of Christ's suffering for man's redemption', 1604, STC 3070]; (5) ff.94v-136: Notes on Joseph Hall's 'Epistles in six decads', 1607-11; (6) f.140: E Gorrano ad Romanos.
Written in Dean Higgin's handwriting. Considerably damaged by damp; several folios at the beginning and end have been mounted. Ff.11-34, 38, 62-78, 176-7, 181-4 are blank, and a few folios have been cut out. Leather binding, gilt tooled with central ornament, and the initials AH.
Biography or history
Anthony Higgin (d. 1624), the son of Thomas Higgin of Manchester, was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1574. In 1583 he became rector of Kirk Deighton near Wetherby in Yorkshire, and in 1608 he was appointed Dean of Ripon an appointment he held until his death. He collected books extensively throughout his life, and left them to the church at Ripon when he died. The surviving part of his collection, which numbers about 1250 volumes, is now preserved in Leeds University Library as part of Ripon Cathedral Library.
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