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Ripon Cathedral Manuscript Fragments
11th-15th century
This collection comprises 65 numbered medieval manuscript fragments, mostly on vellum but some on paper, many in several parts. The majority are loose and housed in boxes. Others remain in situ in the...
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...
Miscellany notebook on theological subjects, in English and Latin, compiled by Anthony Higgin
Higgin, Anthony
c.1572-1577
Contains summaries and notes of sermons, and expositions of various texts, including: (1) f.35: 'March 4. A funerall exposition of Mr Andrews 7th Wrangler'; (2) f.39: 'Doctor nathen Aprilis 4th 1577';...
Miscellany notebook on theological subjects, in Latin, with some English notes in the hand of Anthony Higgin
Higgin, Anthony
15--
Contains notes on theological subjects, Biblical commentary, etc., including the following headings: (1) f.19: 'Lingua peregrina in Ecclesia non utenda; (2) f.23: 'De lingua vulgari'; (3) f.36: 'Desce...
Miscellany notebook, mainly on theological subjects, compiled by Anthony Higgin and another
Higgin, Anthony
c.1586
Contains miscellaneous notes, apparently for sermons, on baptism, the Lord's supper, etc., with summaries of contemporary controversial theological and some classical works, as follows: (1) f.7: Whita...
Miscellany notebook on theological subjects, including summaries of controversial works, compiled possibly by William Birch
Birch, William
c.1560
Contains: (1) ff.1-5: various jottings, including some proverbial sayings in Hebrew on ff.3-4r; (2) ff.8-106: headed 'Bucerus' and apparently a summary of his works in Latin, dated 1551 on f.106v; (3)...
Commentary on Philippians, by Anthony Higgin
Higgin, Anthony
c.1591
Contains: (1) f.1r: a few genealogical notes on the family of Henry VII; (2) f.3r-end: 'Epistola Pauli ad Phillippenses explicata in Collegio Diui Iohannis anno domini 1591, Decembris 8, inchoata'.
Unpublished commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, by Francisco de Vitoria
de Vitoria, Francisco
c.1590
Contains: (1) f.1r: 'Incipiunt annotationes Francisci de Victoria in 4m sentenciarum...(defective text)'; (2) f.12r: 3.P.S.Tho. Q.60. Ar.1 (3 pars S.Thome, questo 60, articulus 1), headed 'iste est an...
Miscellany notebook on theological subjects, including notes for sermons, compiled by Anthony Higgin
Higgin, Anthony
c.1582-1585
Contains: (1) f.2r: a rough drawing apparently for a monument, inscribed 'Antho Higgin posuit Guilielmo Bircheo avunculo M.D.M. The truthe of God endureth for ever'; (2) f.2v: a rough copy of a 'Scott...
Of divorce for adultery and marrying again, by Edmund Bunny
Bunny, Edmund
c.1595
Contains: (1) f.1r: the title: Of that praesupposed libertie, whereby divers are perswaded, that for adulterie they may divorce their wives, and marry others. Wherein is declared, That although divers...
Notes in English and Latin, apparently for a course of sermons for Sundays throughout the year, by Anthony Higgin
Higgin, Anthony
c.1587
Contains: (1) f.6: in festo Matthaei, Matth.9.9; (2) f.8: Math.9.9. Euangelium on Mathews day 1587; (3) f.11: Dominica 1a post trinit. Luke 16 Dives and Lazarus; (4) f.12: Dominica 2a post trinit. Luk...
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...