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Ripon Cathedral8
Medieval Manuscripts6

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classical literature1
commonplace-books1
latin literature1
latin poetry, medieval and modern1
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)1
poetry, medieval1

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Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)1
Hugh1
Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)1
Petrus Riga1

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Floral border (fol. 29r)
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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...

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Floral border (fol. 7r)
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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....

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Decorated incipit word (fol. 3r)
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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.

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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 ...

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Bar-frame border (fol. 19r)
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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...

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Bar-frame border (fol. 25r)
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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...

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[Aurora]
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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...

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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...

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