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Legenda aurea sanctorum, by Jacobus de Voragine
de Voragine, Jacobus Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)
c.1312
Includes a 13th century manuscript of Josephus and a 13th century Breviary bound into the codex as fly-leaves
WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: RADCLIFFE'S COLLECTIONS
19th century
Comprising a volume lettered "Radcliffe's Collections", it contains, extracts from the chartularies of Monk Bretton and Pontefract then in the possession of Mr. Godfrey Wentworth of Woolley. Also extr...
Calendar: November (fol. 11v)
[ca. 142-?]
The scenes in the historiated border are: St. Elizabeth (?) holding a book and a candle; St Clement I holding an anchor; St Catherine of Alexandria holding a spiked wheel and a palm branch; and St. An...
Flagellation (fol. 19v)
[ca. 1500-1520]
Christ after flagellation, tied to a pillar and with wounds to his body. The instruments of torture lie on the ground. A priest kneels in prayer in front of him, holding a scroll with the words 'Aufer...
King David and the Judgement of Solomon (fol. 197r)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'B' encloses a scene of King David playing his harp. The other initial 'B' encloses the scene of the judgement of Solomon, in which Solomon commands a soldier to divide a living child in two. ...