Stimulus amoris, etc
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Description
- Title
- Stimulus amoris, etc
- Creator
- Jacobus, Mediolanensis, active 13th century
- Contributor
- Hilton, Walter, -1396.
- Published / Created
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of Stimulus amoris, translated into English by Walter Hilton from a Latin devotional text often attributed to Bonaventure. Followed by an anonymous devotional treatise
- Description
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In Middle English.
Script: Written by a single scribe in bold, upright gothic textura; commentary added in an inelegant cursive (16th century).
One 4-line initial (f. 2v) gold, edged in black, against a blue and red cusped ground with white filigree, attached to a bar border in outer margin, gold, blue, and pink, with white highlights and leafy sprouts at divisions and terminals, orange, blue, red, and gold; the leaves with black hair-spray vines, both straight and in spirals, with small gold leaves and touches of green, filling upper, outer, and lower margins. Six initial I's (ff. 7v, 31v, 36v, 38v, 61v, 83v), 11- to 7-line, gold against blue and red grounds with white filigree and straight hair-spray vines, as above. 2-line gold initials, against blue and/or pink grounds, with white filigree and hair-spray, as above. Gold or blue paragraph marks with blue or red penwork and flourishes. Gold and blue line-fillers, straight, zig-zag, and wavy, some up to 3/4 of a line long. Headings, occasional underlining, and crossing out, in red.
Trimming has affected some marginal commentary; f. 108 badly mutilated with loss of text. Leaves at beginning and end of codex stained and repaired.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Red edges. Brown goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled. - Provenance
- Purchased from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston who presented it to Yale in 1956.
- Extent
- ff. iii + 108 + iii : 226 x 163 (149 x 102) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English, Middle (1100-1500)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 223
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Jacobus, Mediolanensis, active 13th century.
- Subject (Topic)
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Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Jacobus, Mediolanensis, active 13th century
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Jacobus Mediolanensis, Stimulus Amoris, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9795301
- Object ID (OID)
- 15235793
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