- Creator:
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1410]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 8
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 276
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the complete text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi, a text often attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventure or Johannes de Caulibus. This version concludes with the "additional" chapter on the sacrament
- Description:
- In Middle English., Presentation inscription at end of text, in red ink: This booke is gyffyne to Allyse Belacyse. Be the gyfte of Johane Countesse of kente., Presentation inscription following the previous, in black ink: I Allyse Belacyse, gyfe this booke to Elysabeth my serua[n]t wt. my handys., Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: illuminated initial and a full illuminated bar border on the first page of text; other illuminated initials., and Binding: eighteenth-century full paneled calf, gilt. Six-compartmented spine, decorated, gilt. Spine tag in red leather: Lyffe of Jesu Criste.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Women, and Books and reading
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
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- Creator:
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 4
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 210
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the complete text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi, a text often attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventure or Johannes de Caulibus. The manuscript also contains John Lydgate's Fifteen joys of Our Lady and the anonymous poems, The fifteen ooes of Christ and The charter of Our Lord Jesus Christ
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 45 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: illuminated initial and three-quarter border on first page of text; three other illuminated initials with gold., Verse ownership inscriptions of Erkynwald Gyttyns on three back flyleaves, accompanied by pen trials and sketches., Ownership inscription of Francis Layton on verso of third front flyleaf., and Binding: eighteenth-century half calf over marbled boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ