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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Incunable Collection, 3069 Vol. 1
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    ca. 1454-1455
    Language
    lat
    • Songs, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus combine gilding and penwork infill; initial B for Psalms appears to have
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Incunable Collection, 3069 Vol. 2
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    ca. 1454-1455
    Language
    lat
    • Songs, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus combine gilding and penwork infill; initial B for Psalms appears to have
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 88
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    lat
    • Folio 86v: There may have been an outline picture to Luke here but if so, it has been written
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 83
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
    • (a): folio 88r, Ecclesiastes, extracts from chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 7-10, and all of chapter 12: 'and here
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 12
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    lat
    • Provenance: The Benedictine abbey of St Pierre, Luxeuil-les-Bains, France: produced here
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Persian MS 856
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    fa
    • strong>Decoration: The manuscript at present contains 16 miniatures (though there must have
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 80
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Mid 15th century [1444?]
    Language
    enm
    • On folio 271r is recorded 'Here endiþ þe Apocalipis Anno domini m ccco (sic) xliiii' [i.e. 1444].
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 114
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    lat
    • The upper stage also shows the interior of a building: stonework pink, roof scarlet within: windows on
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Medical (pre-1701) Printed Collection, 570
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    1699
    Language
    eng
    • As also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children: from the experience of
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 1635
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb, gre, arc, lad
    • The top and bottom of the frame consist of black and blank bands, the right and left side have a carteled
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Incunable Collection, 18509
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    1473
    Language
    ita
    • Decoration: A few coloured initials at the beginning, otherwise most spaces for initials have
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 895
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    eng, lat
    • Blank spaces on folios 14v, 58v, 62v, 69v and 100r may have been intended for pictures.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 116
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    lat
    • Small portions have been cut away with the left margin.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 182
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    lat
    • including the wooden boards and their heavily-worn covering in tawed (or alum-tawed) skin, both of which have
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 23
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb
    • Decoration: The initial words are made in black ink and have a wavy character
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 209
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    lat
    • Plinius Secundus, Caius, 23-79, also known as Pliny the Elder
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 24
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    lat
    • The Virgin and Apostles, half-length: the feet of Christ ascending seen also.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Incunable Collection, 13490
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    1481
    Language
    ita
    • Citta da Uenezia:per Leonardu[m] Wild de Ratisbona nelli anni del Signore.M.cccc.lxxxiThere is also
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1554
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    1568
    Language
    ita
    • S6v-S7r) have been crossed out in ink and also erased from the index of RVF first lines at the end of
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 39
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb, yid, lad
    • Inscribed (in Hebrew): ‘and she took the fruit and did eat and gave also her husband with her’ (Gen.