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Total number of records: 8

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Medieval Manuscripts8
Brotherton Collection7
Ripon Cathedral1

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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)6
books of hours5
breviaries2
english poetry1
names, geographical1

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Catholic Church5
Braddyll Family1
Clifton Family1
Hildyard Family1
Kirkby, John1
Kirkby, John Bishop of Ely (1290)1

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Feeding the hungry (fol. 48v)
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Feeding the hungry (fol. 48v)

[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]

The border is historiated with a scene of two men holding plates towards a window of a house from which a group of figures looks out. A face can also be seen appearing in the window on the upper floor...

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Coat of arms (fol. 107r)
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Coat of arms (fol. 107r)

[ca. 1425]

The 5-line initial 'B' is decorated with a coat of arms: three unidentified charges in black (sable) on a red (gules) field. Bar-frame border of gold and blue/rose vine, decorated with diamond motifs,...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

Clifton family

[late 14th century, possibly before 1389]

The original total of leaves is likely to have been 118, with the majority of the missing leaves likely to have contained illuminations and been cut out in post-medieval times. Decoration: Three 8 t...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1404-1425]

Decoration: 16 large (5-8-line) initials in blue and pink with white tracery, infilled with flowers, on gold grounds, and within full borders, of gold and vine bars decorated with acanthus leaves and ...

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[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]
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[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]

[ca. 1440-1460]

Decoration: 27 large arched miniatures, seven historiated 9-line initials, and several 1-4-line decorated initials and line-fillers throughout. Fine rinceaux border throughout the manuscript. Dr J. J....

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]

Some front and some rear flyleaves are on modern vellum. Decoration: 8 full-page (inserted) miniatures, 7 historiated initials of 9-lines with full decorated borders, 41 historiated initials with bo...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

Braddyll family

[ca. 1470-1480]

f. iii is a medieval flyleaf. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature depicting the burial service and 1 smaller miniature of the Virgin and Child, defaced in the Reformation period, and partially repaint...

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[Breviarium Eboracense, etc.]
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[Breviarium Eboracense, etc.]

Kirkby, John Bishop of Ely (1290); Hildyard family

[ca. 1440-1460; 1518; 1550-1600]

Decoration: 2-line initials in blue with red penwork ornamentation (ff. 6-16). Written in textualis quadrata (ff. 6-16), bastard (f. 17r) textualis rotunda (f. 17v), and chancery hand (ff. 18r-71r)....

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