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Medieval Manuscripts7
Ripon Cathedral5
Brotherton Collection2

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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)7
bible. pentateuch. hebrew -- texts.2
ethics2
manuscripts, hebrew -- 13th century -- texts.2
atonement1
bible. pentateuch. aramaic. onkelos -- texts.1
finance, public -- england -- norfolk -- history -- sources.1
illustrated works (manuscripts).1
jews -- england -- norwich -- history -- texts.1
karaites -- manuscripts -- texts.1

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Norwich (England)1
Penzance (England)1
Yemen1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hugh2
Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)2
Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109)1
Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)1
Berengaudus (859-)1
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint1
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1153)1
Cicero, Marcus Tullius1
John Chrysostom1
John Chrysostom, Saint (407)1

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[Biblia]
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[Biblia]

[ca. 1260]

Decoration: biblical books and divisions of Psalms have historiated 9-line initials in colours, on gold grounds, and with ornamental bars extending to the margins that are often decorated by birds and...

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[In epistolas canonicas]
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[In epistolas canonicas]

Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)

[ca. 1100-1150]

Quires numbered at the end. Decoration: 7 large initials on decorated blue, or blue and green grounds, outlined and touched with red. Written in Continental Caroline Minuscule. Principal content...

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[Apocalypsis et Epistolae catholicae, cum glossis]
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[Apocalypsis et Epistolae catholicae, cum glossis]

[ca. 1140-1160]

Decoration: A large decorated incipit word 'Apocalipsis' in blue, red and green for the Apocalypse commentary. A large decorated incipit initial in blue, red and green and running titles in red for th...

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[In Apocalypsim; Threni Ieremie cum glossis]
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[In Apocalypsim; Threni Ieremie cum glossis]

Berengaudus (fl. ca. 859)

[ca. 1140-1160]

Decoration: 2 large initials infilled with foliage and beasts, and 4 smaller initials in colours. Written in littera minuscula protogothica textualis. In the commentary on the Apocalypse, lines co...

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De officiis
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De officiis

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

[12th century]

Ff. 39-41 were written by a later, possibly 14th-century, hand. Annotations throughout the manuscript are written in three different hands. Decoration: a 2-line initial in red begins the first book ...

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Archive Judaica File

[Torah ʿim targum ʿArvi-Yehudi : Bereshit 42:30–43:24]. [תורה עם תרגום ערבי־יהודי : בראשית מב:ל-מג:כד]. [Genesismm xlii.30–xliii.24, with Judaeo-Arabic translation after each verse: Oriental (? Karaite)].

[13th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 529. Variant titles: Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah. ח...

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[Anselm, etc.]
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[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...

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[Aurora]
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[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...

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Archive Judaica Item

[Latin account-roll of William de Rothing, Sheriff of Norfolk, directed to the Bailiffs of Norwich, including crown-debts in Norwich, 1286–1287, lists of sums owed by Norwich Christians to the justices of the Jews, 1265–1266, 1270–1271, 1279–1288, and a portrait-caricature of a Jew].

[1287–1288]

Title supplied by cataloguer. First membrane is written on both sides (opisthograph). A discussion and full transcription of MS Roth *270 provides Roth’s student, Vivian D. Lipman, “The Roth...

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Archive Judaica File

[Torah ʿim targum Onḳelos : Devarim 9:25–31:16]. [תורה עם תרגום אונקלוס : דברים ט:כה-לא:טז]. [Pentateuch with Aramaic translation : Deuteronomy 9:25–31:16].

[13th century ?]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Variant titles: Tag'. תאג׳. Taj. Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah. חמישה חומשי תורה. State of text: Incomplete; at least 4 quires at beginning and an ...

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