Mirour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ.

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Description

Title
Mirour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ.
Creator
Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
Contributor
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Ownership.
Dourant, Robert--Autograph.
Gibbs, Henry Hucks,--1819-1907--Bookplate.
Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century. Meditationes vitae Christi.
Love, Nicholas,--active 1410.
Lyell, James P. R.--(James Patrick Ronaldson),--1871---Bookplate.
St. John's Cathedral Church (Colchester, England) Inscription.
Published / Created
[ca. 1450]
Publication Place
[England],
Abstract

Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi.

Description
All corners repaired, not affecting main text block. Approximately 34 missing leaves; replaced by manuscript copies of the missing text in a modern cursive.
Binding: nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco.
Decoration: rubricated. Some marginal note initials in blue with red penwork.
Ex libris Harry Keryng of Rede; Robert Doraunt; St. John's Cathedral Church, Colchester; Lord Aldenham (Henry Hucks Gibbs); J. P. R. Lyell; H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence (MS 9). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Includes bibliographic note and Vol. 4 No. 5 of Monthly Notes of The Library Association of the United Kingdom, dated May 15, 1883, at end.
Layout: single columns of 32 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Extent
129 l. : parchment ; 275 x 185 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Takamiya MS 63

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
text
Genre
Armorial bookplates
Decorated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Marginalia
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name)
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Ownership.
Dourant, Robert--Autograph.
Gibbs, Henry Hucks,--1819-1907--Bookplate.
Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century. Meditationes vitae Christi.
Love, Nicholas,--active 1410.
Lyell, James P. R.--(James Patrick Ronaldson),--1871---Bookplate.
St. John's Cathedral Church (Colchester, England) Inscription.
Subject (Topic)
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.

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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 Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
NIcholas Love, Mirour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ. Takamiya MS 63.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
11756423
Object ID (OID)
16371238

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