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[Aurora]

  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: [Aurora]
  • 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
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 16 Aug 2017 23:02
  • Last Modified: 16 Aug 2017 23:54