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Aurora : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-282: [Peter Riga, Aurora]: Rubric: Incipit Aurora de operibus vi dierum. Incipit Genesis. Incipit: Primo facta die duo celum terra leguntur. Explicit: Signat eos quibus est danda beata quies//. [The third edition of the Aurora of Peter Riga, with occasional interpolations of Aegidius of Paris, in the following order: f. 3, Genesis; f. 31, Exodus; f. 54v, Leviticus with prologue and with the verses de avibus (Beichner, p. 171) placed at end; f. 69v, Numbers; f. 80, Deuteronomy with prologue; f. 85, Joshua; f. 89v, Judges; f. 95, Ruth; f. 96v, 1-4 Kings with prologue; f. 124v, Tobit ending with an additional 14 lines: Helizabeth genitrix . . . fertilis absque uno; f. 132v, Daniel; f. 146v, Esther ending with 4 lines by Aegidius: Inde quod evasit . . . nomen imposuere phurim; f. 151, Judith; f. 154v, 1-2 Maccabees with prologue; f. 163, Gospels with prologue; f. 217v, Acts with Aegidius' prologue: Dixi me finisse . . . faveto michi; f. 236v, Job with prologue; f. 250v, Song of Songs with prologue, ending defectively on f. 276v; f. 277, Recapitulationes beginning defectively in the section Sine D and ending defectively in the section Sine R. The text is preceded by the 20-line prologue by a Premonstratensian canon (De utilitate legendi hunc librum, Nil homini melius quam si divina legendo . . . Intima declinat noxia vana fugat), by the Teacher's preface (Omnis scriptura divinitus inspirata . . . interfectionem dyaboli a christo), and by Peter Riga's prose preface (Incipit prefacio, Frequens sodalium meorum peticio cum quibus conversando florem infancie exegi . . . et veritatis fulgor patenter illuxit)].
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1385 and 1399]
Call number: mssHM 31189
Creator: Peter Riga (approximately 1140-1209)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On f. i, "Liber magistri Willelmi Waverton Rectoris ecclesie de Tankerslay"; Waverton, a Queen's College "poor boy" in 1399, was rector of Tankersley in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1420 until his death in 1440 (Emden, BRUO, 2000). 2 small parchment strips, 38 x 227 mm., from a deed relating to Yorkshire, 16th century[?], signed "J. Chenche" removed from previous binding and shelved separately. Possibly among the manuscripts collected by Sir Lionel Tollemache ca. 1600; rebound in the mid-eighteenth century by Sir Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (1708-70); the collection was dispersed in private sales 1953-56 and by auction in 7 Sotheby sales, 1955-71 (for a brief history of the collection, see Sotheby's, 14 June 1965, pp. iii-viii with plates of the Dysart arms and crests used on the bindings, and E. Wilson, "The Book-stamps of the Tollemache Family of Helmingham and Ham," The Book Collector 16 (1967) 178-85). This manuscript sold by Sotheby's, 14 June 1965, lot 14. Acquired by the Huntington Library in July 1969 from Dawson's, Pall Mall, Cat. 200 (1969) n. 6.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 146 x 226 mm
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Peter of Poitiers' Distinctiones super psalterium and anonymous distinctions : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-65v: [Peter of Poitiers, Distinctiones super psalterium. Here arranged in schematic form, i.e., the scriptural word that is being interpreted is placed to the left of the text, with lines radiating to the different senses; ends defectively]: Rubric: Incipiunt distinctiones super psalterium. Incipit: Facies michi tentorium in introitu thabernaculi quatuor pretiosis coloribus contextum. Thabernaculum quo in nobis deus habitat ... Explicit: velut in Beatitudine recipiamur; unde, Petite a me et accipietis, pul. [catchword:] et apud vobis//. ff. 66-89v: [Anonymous distinctiones in simple form, primarily of figurative meanings, in alphabetical order with space left for additional distinctiones at the end of each alphabetical section]: Incipit: Angeli, potestas superna. In psalmo, Qui facis angelos suos [sic] spiritus ... Explicit: Secretum consilii, unde, De cuius utero egressa est glacies.

mssHM 46554

Statutes : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-38v. Statuta vetera. Latin; French. ff. 38v-44v. Fet asaver. Incipit: Fet asaver que au comencement de chescun play que est plede en la Court le rey. Explicit: Mes si la terre luy fust donee en franc mariage donc covendra que ele seit//. Rubric: Incipit Summa Fet asaver. French. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 53-96, here ending defectively. ff. 45-50. Hengham Parva. Incipit: //Et iacet solummodo in omni breve de recto ante apparenciam. Explicit: Si compertus fuit ille qui primo cassavit breve verus tenens. Explicit Summa de quinque essoniis. Latin. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 54-71, the "Summa Parva" here beginning defectively. ff. 50-54. Judicium essoniorum. Incipit: Primum capitulum de difficultate essoniorum circa viros et mulieres. Explicit: et sic procedere debent ad alia placita iuxta eorum discrecionem. Explicit Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Rubric: Incipit Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Latin. Woodbine, 116-42. ff. 54-59; f. 59v blank. Cadit assisa. Incipit: Rex vicecomiti salutem. Si Adam Bonde fecerit te securum de clamore suo prosequendo. . ., Cadit assisa si petatur tenementum per assisam. Explicit: si petens ius petendi remanebit possessio suo loco ut predictum est. Rubric: Incipit Summa Cadit assisa. Latin. See Woodbine, p. 1 and n. 4 giving references to Bracton; the text is preceded by an assize of mort d'ancestor by Adam Bonde in the time of Edward I. ff. 60-83v. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right to the sheriffs of London (no names given) and ending defectively in a note concerning disseisin of husband and wife.

mssHM 946

Liber ruralium commodorum libri XII : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-176v. [Petrus Crescentius] Liber ruralium commondorum. Incipit: //Aer namque si bonus est temperatus et clarus. Explicit: Item post medium mensem optime seruntur caules //. Latin. On ff. 177-179v, table of contents beginning defectively in the chapter list of Book 3. Status of text: Beginning and ending defectively.

mssHM 63330

Mariale : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 2-312: [Mariale]: [Chapter list]: Explicit prologus. Capitula i libri et cetera, Quod nullus inveniatur dignus in laude virginis ... [Prologue, beginning defectively]: //que floribus in varios succos mirabili artificio ... de beato iob sumo loquendi principium. Incipit: Quod nullus in laude beatissime virginis inveniatur dignus, liber primus, Iob, Nunquid levabis in nebula vocem tuam. Nebula est caro virginis in qua divinitas latuit unde regum liber iii ... Explicit: ignoscat omnipotens deus et donet omnibus qui circa hoc opus laboraverunt graciam in presenti et gloriam in futuro per sue gloriose matris merita. Amen. [f. 312 blank]

mssHM 26560

Missal, for Cistercian use : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-141v (+ f. 108r-v bis). Latin. ff. 1-50v, Temporale, beginning defectively; ff. 50v-55v, Prefaces and canon of the mass; ff. 55v-130, Sanctorale; ff. 130-139v, Votive masses; f. 140r-v, Office of the dead, beginning and ending defectively; f. 141r-v, Full office of Elizabeth, beginning defectively, several other masses, and prayers for the blessing of water, starting with the blessing of salt.

mssHM 1079

Register of writs : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-104v: [Register of writs; beginning defectively in the section on trespass and ending defectively in the section on writs of attaint; at least 7 quires missing with loss of text at the beginning (2 quires), after f. 56 (3 quires), f. 64 (1 quire), f. 72 (1 quire) and an unknown amount at the end].

mssHM 45147

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