Mirour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ.
Description
- Title
- Mirour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ.
- Creator
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1450]
- Publication Place
- [England],
- Abstract
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi. Interpolated is an anonymous Middle English translation of the Meditationes de passione Christi.
- Description
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Binding: nineteenth-century vellum.
Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork; six initials in red.
Layout: single columns of 24 lines.
Ownership inscription of Sir John Gage on f. 126.
Previously owned by the Gage family. Ex libris Viscount Gage. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Script: English bookhand. - Extent
- 126 l. : parchment ; 295 x 205 mm
- Extent of Digitization
- Completely digitized
- Language
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English, Middle (1100-1500)
Collection Information
- Call Number
- Takamiya MS 20
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
-
Decorated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century. - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
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Gage, Henry Raynald Gage,--Viscount,--1895-1982--Bookplate.
Gage, John,--Sir,--1479-1556--Autograph.
Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century. Meditationes vitae Christi.
Love, Nicholas,--active 1410.
Love, Nicholas,--active 1410.--Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi. - Subject (Topic)
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Devotional literature, English (Middle)
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- 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 Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437. and Nicholas Love, Mirour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ. Takamiya MS 20.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11735977
- OID
- 16371213