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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)]. Verse commentary on the Bible by Peter Riga written in England at the end of the fourteenth century. ff. 1-282v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-23¹² 24¹²(-1 through 3 and 10 through 12). Quires signed in red roman numerals on the last leaf verso. 29 lines of verse. Ruled in lead with the top and bottom 2 horizontal rules full across; 3 vertical rules to the left of the text serve to separate the first letter of each verse from the rest of the line; in the lower and outer margins additional sets of narrow rules; slash pricking in outer margins. Written in an Anglicana formata. Running headlines with book and chapter number on each page, added 14th/15th century. Fore edges damp rotted. Decoration: 2-line initials alternating in red and blue. Rubrics and arguments in long lines extending to narrow rules in the outer margin. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012. Bound in 1971 in white quarter leather over wooden boards; 2 fore edge clasps; covers from the previous binding of eighteenth century English speckled calf with the Dysart arms mounted as doublures; edges speckled in red. HM 31189. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Bible--Commentaries Latin poetry, Medieval and modern Poems. (rbgenr) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
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.
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