Miscellaneous sermon notes and Biblical commentaries in Latin, compiled by Anthony Higgin
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Miscellaneous sermon notes and Biblical commentaries in Latin, compiled by Anthony Higgin
Classmark: Ripon Cathedral MS 20
Creator(s): Higgin, Anthony
Date(s): c.1590
Language: Latin; Greek, Ancient (to 1453); English
Size and medium: 1 vol. (80 ff.) accompanied (in a separate envelope) by a facsimile of the music written on both sides of the parchment cover
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6640
Collection group(s): Ripon Cathedral
Description
Contains notes for sermons and commentaries on the Lord's Prayer, Creed, Psalm 62, Commandments, etc. On f.80 are notes of receipts and payments; 'Recepta' begin 'for barlye 40 qr £26.13.4'
Ff.21, 33-6, 49-50 are blank. Text begins at both ends. It is damaged by damp, so that the ink is considerably faded in many places, and almost illegible. Parchment manuscript wrapper containing music, and fragment of a printed service book inside covers.
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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