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Total number of records: 142

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	102
Books and printed items	40

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Ripon Cathedral	142
Medieval Manuscripts	100
Incunabula	39

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
fabulous animals	30
saints	25
god the father	16
animals	11
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)	9
king david	6
birds	4
medicine, arab	4
angels	2
astronomy	2

Count of Place

Place	Count
Greece	1
Rome	1
Yorkshire (England)	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Avenzoar (1162)	4
Averroes	4
Averroes (1126-1198)	4
Paravicinus Patavinus	4
Surianus, Hieronymus	4
Surianus, Hieronymus (1522)	4
Beckenhub, Johann	3
Bersuire, Pierre (1290-1362)	3
Aristotle	2
Gerson, Jean (1363-1429)	2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 900	1
From 1100	8
From 1200	84
From 1300	5
From 1400	44

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 999	1
Up to 1199	7
Up to 1299	85
Up to 1499	49

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Photographs of pages from Pierpont Morgan Lib MS. 23

10th century

Two photographs of facing pages and one photograph of a single opening from a tenth-century gospel-book probably commissioned by Oswald, Archbishop of York 971-992, to replace the gospel-book commissi...

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PRECEDENT BOOK, containing examples from cases heard in the ecclesiastical courts at York in the 15th century. With some additions and marginalia. (After 1497)

15th century

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Sermones Socci de tempore cum triplici eorum registro

Soccus; Conradus de Brundelsheim (1321)

12 February 1484

From colophon: Opus preclarum Sermonum Socci de tempore sic dictorum, cum desuco id est de medulla sacre pagine: stilo sub obscuro exquisitissime sint collecti. Attributed to Conradus de Brundelshei...

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Plvtarchi vitae

Plutarch

1496

Reprint of the 1491 edition of Ragazzo. Wood block illustration with border. Collation: pt.1: a-r⁸, s¹⁰; pt.2: A-S⁸. Colophon: "... die octo Mẽsis Iunius".

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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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M. Annei Lucani vita ex commentario antiquiss

Omnibonus Leonicenus

21 July 1475

By Omnibonus Leonicenus (named as "Omnibonus Vicentinus", f.3r).

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Casus Decretorum Bartholomei Brixiensis

Bartolomeo da Brescia (1258); Kessler, Nikolaus

1489

BM 15th cent. omits the second last gathering (̃t) and indicates only the corresponding number of leaves (182); the gathering is present in GW and in the lib. copy. Printer's device at colophon. ...

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Rationale diuinorũ officiorũ. Editum p[er] reuerendissimũ in Christo p̃rem ac dñm: dñm Guilhelmũ Duranti: Dei & Ap[osto]lice Sedis gratia ẽpm Minateñ. Qui & Speculum juris & Patrum pontificale composuit

Durand, Guillaume (1230-1296)

1488

Title taken from explicit, f.248. Imprint from colophon: Impressum Basilee p[er] Nicolaũ Kesler. Anno... Millesimoquadringentesimooctuagesimooctauo. Decimo vero sexto kalendas mensis Augusti.

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