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Floral border (fol. 29r)
[ca. 1350-1400]
Bar-frame border in blue/ rose and gold. 5-line initial 'D' in pink with white penwork ornamentation, on gold background, infilled with a checked flower design. The floral border is decorated with pop...
Floral border (fol. 7r)
[ca. 1350-1400]
Filigree band border in blue and rose, on gold background. 5-line initial 'D' in blue with white penwork ornamentation, on gold background, infilled with entwined vine with flowers, shaped as a heart....
Decorated incipit word (fol. 3r)
[ca. 1140-1160]
Large initial 'A' decorated with stylised fan-shaped leaves and curved pen lines, in green, red and blue, followed by the remaining letters of the incipit word 'APOCALIPSIS' in blue and red.
Testimonial to the Right Reverend Doctor George Armitage Chase, Bishop of Ripon.
1959 (?)
Testimonial with several names of individuals and communities inscribed on the leaves of the book in a large, handsome hand, "to express our thanks to you for all you have been to us during the years ...
Bar-frame border (fol. 19r)
[ca. 1350-1400]
Bar-frame border in rose/blue and gold, with small corner pieces of hairline tendrils with quatrefoils and golden pine cones and ivy leaves. 4-line initial 'D' in gold on rose/blue background decorate...
Bar-frame border (fol. 25r)
[ca. 1350-1400]
Bar-frame border in rose/blue and gold, with small corner pieces of hairline tendrils with quatrefoils and golden pine cones and ivy leaves. 4-line initial 'D' in gold on rose/blue background decorate...
[Aurora]
Petrus Riga; Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)
[ca. 1140-1160; 1180-1220]
Leaves are missing after ff. 24 and 34, with gaps in the text; ends imperfectly. Written in protogothic minuscule. On long-term deposit from Ripon Cathedral. A letter (1954) about the manuscript...
Miscellany notebook, containing extracts from Latin writings, mainly classical, notes on rhetoric and grammar, and translations from Aristotle
15--
Contents: (1) Notes on rhetoric and Latin grammar; (2) Quotations from classical authors, summaries of works of Aristotle, etc., namely: f.4, 'Eloquentia nihil aliud nisi dicendi prudentia', etc; f.13...