[Aurora]
- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: [Aurora]
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Description:
Leaves are missing after ff. 24 and 34, with gaps in the text; ends imperfectly.
Written in protogothic minuscule.
On long-term deposit from Ripon Cathedral.
A letter (1954) about the manuscript from Dr Godfrey Davis, British Museum, is kept with it.
Principal contents: ff. 1r-8v three partial tracts by Hugh of St. Victor, namely De amore sponsi ad sponsam (ff. 1r-v); De verbo incarnato collationes sau disputationes tres (ff. 1v-2r); and Eruditionis didascalicae libri 7 (ff. 2r-8v); ff. 9r-100v Petrus Riga's Aurora, a verse commentary on the Bible.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 210.
- Date range: [ca. 1140-1160; 1180-1220]
- Date: 1180
- Collection: Ripon Cathedral
- Physical Identifier: Ripon Cathedral MS 5
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/18833
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