Stimulus amoris, etc.

Description

Title: Stimulus amoris, etc.
Creator: Hilton, Walter, d. 1396 and Jacobus, Mediolanensis, active 13th century
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: England,
Abstract: 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: Binding: Nineteenth century. Red edges. Brown goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled.
Script: Written by a single scribe in bold, upright gothic textura; commentary added in an inelegant cursive (16th century).
Trimming has affected some marginal commentary; f. 108 badly mutilated with loss of text. Leaves at beginning and end of codex stained and repaired.
Extent: ff. iii + 108 + iii : parchment ; 226 x 163 (149 x 102) mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Decorated initials
Devotional literature
Hand coloring
Illuminated manuscripts
Marginalia
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Jacobus,--Mediolanensis,--active 13th century
Subject (Topic): Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Jacobus Mediolanensis, Stimulus Amoris, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., MS 223., and Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,

Orbis Record: 9795301
OID: 15235793
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms223.htm