Aurora (a compendium of Bible texts in verse)

Item author: Petrus Riga
Item date: early 13th century
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 90,000
Item date acquired: 1991
Item institution: National Trust, Coughton Court
Town/City: Alcester
County: Warwickshire

Bought with six other medieval MSS all belonging to Coughton Court Library. The collection also included Peter Lombards Commentary on the Psalms, three Books of Hours and a Sarum liturgical Manual of about 1450. Illustrated at p.18 of AR

Item Provenance
Bookplate of Sir Robert Throckmorton, Coughton Court