Speculum Christiani.

Description

Title: Speculum Christiani.
Contributor: Catholic Church--Clergy--Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Foyle, William Alfred,--1885---Bookplate.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership.
Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
Published / Created: [ca. 1400-1425]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a version of this fourteenth-century pastoral manual. The text is in eight sections, or Tabulae, in Latin, with extensive passages in Middle English prose and interpolated Middle English verse.
Description: Binding: nineteenth-century morocco.
Decoration: red and blue initials with contrasting penwork.
Ex libris Alfred Henry Huth; Sir Leicester Harmsworth; William and Christina Foyle. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya.
Layout: single columns of 32 lines.
Script: written in an English bookhand.
Extent: 45 l. : parchment ; 340 x 210 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Catholic Church--Clergy--Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Foyle, William Alfred,--1885---Bookplate.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership.
Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic): Christian life--Early works to 1800.
English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Ma

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De G