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1. Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
- 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