Beschreibung:

Petrus Riga, Aurora, a summary of the Bible in Latin verse, manuscript on vellum 213 leaves (2 blank), 213 mm. by 125 mm., complete (allowing for 36 leaves being replacements or additions from c.1401), collation: i1+8 [fol. 1 added c.1401], ii-xiv8, xv4 [probably of 8, v-viii cancelled], xvii-xix8 and xx4 [all added c.1401], xxi-xxv8, xxvi5 [of 6, vi cancelled], xxvii10, xxviii5 [of unknown number, vi onwards cancelled], with traces of numerical signatures, 41 lines (beginning above top ruled line), ruled in plummet, written-space 151 mm. by 63 mm., written in dark brown ink in a small slightly backward-sloping gothic bookhand, headings in red, first initial of each line written slightly apart from the rest of the text block, decorated initials throughout, mostly 2 lines high (some larger) in red or blue with penwork in the contrasting colour, additions of c.1401 with 41-42 lines (beginning below top ruled line), written in a much more prickly gothic hand, headings in red, capitals touched in yellow, 2- to 3-line initials in red or dark blue with penwork in dark blue or pale red (added also to the thirteenth-century pages from fol. 199r onwards), including approximately 240 human faces, men, old women, girls, priests, knights, peasants, boys, etc., and many dogs, demons (fols. 119v-120r, etc.), in a wide variety, other signs of use, last leaves a bit cockled, minor wear, generally sound, bound in late medieval wooden boards, lacking covering, rebacked, binding repaired, vellum endleaves added