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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)4
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Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)2
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Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)2
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Snake (fol. 80r)
Archive Piece

Snake (fol. 80r)

[ca. 1100-1150]

5-line initial 'I' decorated with a snake entwined around and through the initial, outlined in black and red, touched in blue and green.

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Aurelii Augustini de ciuitate dei primi libri incipiu[n]t rubricae

Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Johann of Speier (1470); Wendelin of Speier; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

M.CCCC.LXX. [1470]

Signatures: [a-b⁸ c-z¹⁰ A-C¹⁰ D⁸ E¹⁰]. Place of printing and date from colophon. Colophon in verse following the end of the text on leaf [E9r]: Qui docuit Venetos exscribi posse Ioann...

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Summa de casibus per fratrem Astexanum de Ordine Fratrum Minorum compilata ad honorem Dei immortalis et diligentem exhortationem domini Johannis Gaietani diaconi cardinalis Sancti Theodori

Astesano; Bellatus, Bartholomaeus; Lisboa, Gomes de (1513); Koberger, Anton (1440-1513); Grey, Charles Hervey (1875-1955); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930); Crawshaw, Edward

M.cccc.lxxxij.die.xj.mensis May [11 May 1482]

Signatures: [a⁸ b-d⁶ e-g⁸ h-m⁶ n-p⁸ q-x⁶ y-z⁸ A⁸ B-F⁶ G⁸ H-I⁶ K-L⁸ M-S⁶ T⁸ V⁸ Y-Z⁶ 2a-2c⁶]. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on leaf [323v] reads: Summe confessionis...

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[Latin Bible]
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[Latin Bible]

Eden, Sir Robert Johnson (1774-1844); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor; Sams, Joseph

13th century

Manuscript in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textura) on parchment, containing the text of the Old and New Testaments. Decoration: Minimal decoration, but occasional fine decorated capitals in red and blue...

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Legenda aurea sanctorum
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Legenda aurea sanctorum

Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)

[ca. 1300-1320]

The medieval foliation is one too high after f. 45. Quires are numbered and horizontal catchwords included. Decoration: One 10-line historiated initial in blue patterned in white and on decorated ...

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Regiment of Princes
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Regiment of Princes

Hoccleve, Thomas (1369-1426); Selden (1420-); Robinson, John (16th century-16th century); Browne, Thomas (16th century-16th century); Gibbs, Frater (16th century-16th century); Pawson, Esther (17th century-17th century); Heber, Richard (1773-1833); Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

c.1420

Manuscript in Middle English in Anglicana Formata on parchment, copied by the 'Selden Scribe' [ex inf.: Professor Sebastian Sobecki] containing Thomas Hoccleve's ‘Regiment of Princes’. Marginal gl...

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[Vocabularius praedicantium]

Melber, Johannes; Zeninger, Conrad (1480-1489); Suess, Heinricus; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[1481-82]

Imprint from ISTC. Compiled by Johannes Melber from the lectures of Jodocus Eichmann. Hain ascribes the printing of this book to Peter Wagner of Nuremberg who printed an edition of this work in 14...

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[Tractatus et summulae logicales cum commento]

John, Pope (1277); Petrus de Sancto Johanne; Versor, Johannes (1485); Lichtenstein, Hermann (1494); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno salutis 1488.vij.nonas Martij. [March 1488]

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-k⁸ l-s⁶ t¹⁰. Imprint from colophon. Colophon numbered leaf 140 (t10r) reads: Textus summularu[m] logice magistri Petri hispani vna cu[m] expositione earundem versoris c...

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