Petrus Riga, Aurora, a summary of the Bible in Latin verse, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy or southern France, first half of thirteenth century (probably pre-1230)] 131 leaves (plus three medieval endleaves), 233mm. by 142mm., complete, collation: i-vi8, vii6, viii8, ix3 (iv cancelled and most probably blank), x10, xi-xvii8, single column, 48-51 lines in two early gothic hands (change of scribe on fol.66r), rubrics and significant sections in red, 3- and 4-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, elaborate penwork dragon in blue and red and a tongue terminating in sprays of foliage (fol.1r), occasional medieval dry-point glossing, some original repairs to a number of leaves and some areas of discolouration, area of erasure on last leaf causing small hole with loss of a few letters from text, else in good condition with wide and clean margins, nineteenth-century armorial brown leather over pasteboards (see below) by T. Gough
Petrus Riga, Aurora, a summary of the Bible in Latin verse, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy or southern France, first half of thirteenth century (probably pre-1230)] 131 leaves (plus three medieval endleaves), 233mm. by 142mm., complete, collation: i-vi8, vii6, viii8, ix3 (iv cancelled and most probably blank), x10, xi-xvii8, single column, 48-51 lines in two early gothic hands (change of scribe on fol.66r), rubrics and significant sections in red, 3- and 4-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, elaborate penwork dragon in blue and red and a tongue terminating in sprays of foliage (fol.1r), occasional medieval dry-point glossing, some original repairs to a number of leaves and some areas of discolouration, area of erasure on last leaf causing small hole with loss of a few letters from text, else in good condition with wide and clean margins, nineteenth-century armorial brown leather over pasteboards (see below) by T. Gough
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