The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ; Adam of Dryburgh; Thirty-Nine Articles


Description

Title
The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ; Adam of Dryburgh; Thirty-Nine Articles
Alternative Title
Meditationes vitae Christi. English
Creator
Adam, of Dryburgh, ca. 1140-1212 and Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410
Published / Created
[ca. 1450, between 1600 and 1700]
Publication Place
England
Abstract
Manuscript on paper composed of two parts. Part I: The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ (Meditationes vitae Christi), tr. Nicholas Love. Includes Adam of Dryburgh (Adam Scotus) O. Praem, later O. Carth. (d. 1212), De instructione animae; ends incomplete in I.4. Part II: The Thirty-Nine Articles (doctrinal formulas accepted by the Church of England), articles 1-19 only, in diagram form, all pages being organized in three sections titled "the truth", "the creed", and "errors".
Description
Majuscules are heightened in red (?) up to f. 8v. Red paragraph marks (?). Plain red 2- to 4-line initials. A 4-line red (?) flourished initial with rather coarse penwork in (?), including a human head and a fish, on f. 1r.
Script: Part I: Written by two scribes in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary very close to Anglicana). Part II: Written in careful Gothica Cursiva (Secretary).
Two parchment fly-leaves of the original binding are inserted after f. 100; they have been taken from a 13th-century manuscript and contain fragments of Codex Iustiniani, VI.3.
Extent
ff. iii + 102 : paper ; 290 x 215 mm.
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized
Language
English
Latin

Collection Information

Call Number
Beinecke MS 535

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
text
Genre
Charts (Graphic documents)
Decorated initials
Devotional literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Marginalia
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name)
Church of England
Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410
Subject (Topic)
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Theology, Doctrinal

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Citation
The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9600966
OID
9998865
More Information
https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms535.htm

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