(Q43962)
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Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1550-1629
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Conybeare, J. J. 1779-1824
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Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
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Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928
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Miscellanies--England--14th century
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Grotesques--England--14th century
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between 1300 and 1315
14. century
1300Gregorian
1315Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 260 : parchment ; 162 x 222 mm
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Miscellany containing numerous theological works written in England in the early fourteenth century.
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Span folios: ff. 1-260 ("7" skipped in foliation). Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-912 1014 11-1412 1514 16-1712 1816 1914 2012 2112(-10, 11, 12). Catchwords in yellow-tinted frames. 2 columns of 41 lines, ruled in lead, top and bottom 3 lines full across, triple lines between the columns, narrow double rule in the outer and lower margin. Written in a conservative littera textualis, with...
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Decoration: Parted red and blue initials, 4-line, infilled with cross-hatching and void designs of leaves or grotesques, and with flourished extensions in both colors (e.g. ff. 198v, 214v, 234); secondary initials, 3- and 2-line, in alternating red and blue with flourishing of the other color through f. 133, thereafter initials only in blue with red flourishing. Initials within the text...
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On f. i verso: [early 16th c. list of contents; altered mid-16th c.] Contenta: Beda de ymagine mundi, folio primo; Vita secundi philosophi, 17o; Transcripta testamentorum xii patriarcharum, fol. 19; Excerpta Bede de libris plinii de naturis rerum, 40o; Lucidarius id est questiones de theologia et missa, et cetera, 47; Liber de situ Britanie editus a magistro henrico Archidiacono...
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An early 13th century fragment, written in France, of an expanded version of the commentary on Lucan's Pharsalia, Bk. 6.321-409, by Arnulf of Orleans, once loose in HM 1345, now shelved separately as HM 47937.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/24/2012.
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Belonged to the historian Sir James Ley, first Earl of Marlborough. On f. i, the date, 1811, and the signature of John J. Conybeare, Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon. Belonged to William Loscombe; sale of Clifton Wintringham Loscombe, Sotheby's, 19 June 1854, n. 1155 to Upham for Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham; in his "Appendix," n. CXI, with that number in arabic numerals on a...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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