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Jerome (fol. 2r)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'F' encloses the scene of St. Jerome writing, holding a quill and a sharpening knife. He wears a tonsure, a black cape and white garments. The margin contains a stork-like bird and a head of a...
Saul's suicide (fol. 112r)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'F' encloses the scene of Saul piercing himself with a sword and jumping into the sea. The border includes a head of a deer.
Miscellany notebook on theological subjects, in English, Latin, and Greek, compiled by Anthony Higgin
Higgin, Anthony
c.1612
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 surue...
Two anonymous sermons
c.1675-1700
Comprises: (1) ff.1-43: Sermon headed 'The believer's life in Christ, 1 Ep.Joh.V.11, Later clause, 'And this life is in his Son'; (2) ff.44-67: 'Man's unwillingness to have life from Christ, John 5.4'...
Notes and exposition of the Catechism, compiled by Anthony Higgin
Higgin, Anthony
c.1613
Notes and exposition of the Catechism, beginning (f.1r): 'The Catechisme Qu: In whom doe you beleue. An: I beleue in one God the father the sonne and the holie ghoste...(etc.)'
Notes in English and Latin, apparently for a course of sermons for Sundays throughout the year, by Anthony Higgin
Higgin, Anthony
c.1587
Contains: (1) f.6: in festo Matthaei, Matth.9.9; (2) f.8: Math.9.9. Euangelium on Mathews day 1587; (3) f.11: Dominica 1a post trinit. Luke 16 Dives and Lazarus; (4) f.12: Dominica 2a post trinit. Luk...
Miscellany notebook, mainly containing summaries of Greek and Latin works by Aristotle, Cicero, Homer, and Hesiod, compiled by William Birch, with notes in English by Anthony Higgin
Birch, William
c.1550-1607
Contains miscellaneous notes, mainly summaries in Latin of works of Aristotle, Cicero, Homer, and Hesiod, as follows: (1) ff.1-27: Ex Ethicis lib.1, cap.1 (- to lib.3); (2) ff.28-9: Verba similia, nom...
[Anselm, etc.]
Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109); John Chrysostom, Saint (407); Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1153); Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)
[ca. 1200-1250]
There is a late 13th-century list of contents on f. 1v. Decoration: 4 to 5-line initials for each text in blue and red, with pen ornament in both colours. 2-line initials for chapters, alternating i...
Miscellany notebook on classical subjects, with some additions by Anthony Higgin
c.1600
Contains: (1) f.4: Scilua variarum lectionum a Reuerendo Patre Bernardino Castorio...collecta et anno Domini 1579 Pridie Nonas octobris inchoata, followed by notes on the life and times of Aristotle, ...
Miscellany notebook on theological subjects, including summaries of controversial works, and notes for sermons, compiled by Anthony Higgin
Higgin, Anthony
c.1610
Contains summaries of controversial works, and notes for sermons, including: (1) f.36: E promptuario morali Stapletoni (Thomas Stapleton: Promptuarium morale, 1598); (2) Blackwell's examination, his a...
Catalogus librorum, compiled by Anthony Higgin, followed by Latin exercises and commentaries on Ovid's Heroides and Tristia, written by Roger Phillips
Higgin, Anthony
c.1620
Contains: (1) ff.3-10: Catalogus librorum, containing the theology section of Dean Higgin's library, arranged in 30 classes, under the headings 'Biblia sacra, Conciones, Patres, Leiturgiae & Missalia...
Copies of statutes and charters relating to Ripon Collegiate Church, compiled mainly by Heneage Dering
Dering, Heneage (1665-1750)
c.1735-1814
Contains: (1) f.3: Extract from a manuscript account of the church of Durham, by Dr Thomas Sharp (pasted in); (2) f.4: Descriptions of the bells of Ripon and Durham on recto, Table of deans and preben...