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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 85
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • Script: Written in gothic textura from folios 2r-36vThe hand
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 87
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • way, except that the leaf numbers are written below the quire letters (cf.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 88
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    2nd half 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • Binding: 18th-century black morocco, tooled in gilt on the spine with the
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 98
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Mid 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • Secundo folio: n/a (the first quire is lacking the first and second leaves).
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 105
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 15th century
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • Acquisition: Purchased by the John Rylands Library at the Phillipps
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 206
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Second half 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • Acquisition: Purchased by the John Rylands Library at the sale of the George
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 3
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • The recto of the front endpaper bears the heraldic bookplate identifying the codex as having once been
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 50
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    the end of the 14th Century
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • Angus McIntosh, British Library, Harley 1205 is in the same hand.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 63
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    2nd half 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • The initials 'JR' for John Rylands are stamped in gold in the centre of the board.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 81
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • same style at the beginning of all other books;numerous 4-line initials in blue ink with red penwork
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 84
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • Changes of ink, but perhaps not of hand, at folios 72r (beginning of tenth quire), 104v line 7, 111r
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 92
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • Quires are numbered, with the leaf numbers written below the quire numbers.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 410
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    17th-18th century
    Language
    eng
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    • Acquisition: Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the bookseller
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1924
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • An 8th miracle follows the compilation and is written by a different but contemporary hand.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 2
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Mid-15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • There are partial borders at the beginning of books 1, 2, 3 and 5-8 (the leaf at the beginning of book
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 75
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • On the recto of the front endpaper is the John Rylands Library bookplate, dated 1894, with the Latin
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 77
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • infill on burnished gold grounds, and with foliate extensions; at the beginning of the other books are
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 79
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • ;numerous other 2-, 3- and 4-line initials in blue with red penwork infill and flourishes.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 102
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Mid 15th century
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • script is in a secretary hand with some influence from anglicana.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 413
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Early-15th century
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • Meditationes vitae Christi, dating from the beginning of the 15th century.