Call Number:  

HM 132

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Binding

Description:  

Bound, middle or end of the 15th century, probably at St. Werburg, in doeskin stained pinkover bevelled wooden boards.

Call Number:  

HM 132

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Binding

Description:  

Front pastedown and f. i recto, modern note in the hand of George Dunn, and his book label; on f. i, ownership devices of Sir Thomas Phillipps.

Call Number:  

HM 132

Folio:  

Binding

Description:  

Back pastedown with raised mark of the V-shaped binding bands or thongs; in the lower margin, a note on the cost of the binding.

Call Number:  

HM 132

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f. 1

Description:  

Prologue

Call Number:  

HM 132

Folio:  

ff. 4v-5

Description:  

Map of the world with Jerusalem at the center; Adam and Eve at the top with the serpent in the tree.

Call Number:  

HM 132

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ff. 31v-32

Description:  

Copied by Ranulph Higden at St. Werburg's in Chester.

Call Number:  

HM 132

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f. 48

Description:  

Two elevations of the Ark, according to Augustine and to "others."

Call Number:  

HM 132

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f. 51v

Description:  

Source of the note in the lower margin identified as "R," i.e. Ranulph Higden himself.

Call Number:  

HM 132

Folio:  

ff. 109v-110

Description:  

Layout with marginal columns.

Call Number:  

HM 132

Folio:  

ff. 285v-286

Description:  

Alphabetical subject index with reference to book and chapter number in arabic numerals.