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Aurora

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Author: Peter Riga

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Aurora by Petrus Riga, 13th century

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Identifier: MS 20/ff. 1r-77v
Contents The Aurora, written by the medieval French poet Petrus Riga (c. 1140 – 1209), is an allegorical commentary on the Bible composed in elegiac couplets. The copy of the text preserved in this manuscript is incomplete at the beginning. The text is divided according to the books of the Bible.Exodus: starts on f. 1r with the words Hic sacra digna deo fiunt, hic crimina mundant (corresponding to v....
Dates: 13th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including three texts

Correspondence from J. Paton to Edward Appleton, 1949-1953 and no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.85
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from J. Paton to Edward Appleton, dated 1949-1953. The material mainly relates to aurorae and includes a draft or transcript of a discussion on aurorae between Appleton, Paton and A.C.B. Lovell, no date.

Dates: 1949-1953 and no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Correspondence

Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon and others to Edward Appleton, 1954

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.371
Scope and Contents Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon and others to Edward Appleton, dated 1954. The correspondence relates to U.R.S.I [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] and M.C.I. [Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere] affairs, and especially regarding the meeting at Brussels, August, planned Symposium on Eclipse results, International Geophysical Year arrangements, etc. It includes a paper by J. Paton on aurora 1952-1954, prepared for Rome meeting; paper by A.C.B. Lovell on radio echo research at Jodrell...
Dates: 1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / U.R.S.I [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale/International Union of Radio Science]