- Creator:
- Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410
- Published / Created:
- [between 1430 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 324
- Image Count:
- 294
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Crist, translated into English by Nicholas Love. With Memorandum stating that the original copy of the translation was given to Thomas Arundell, Abp. of Canterbury, for his approval, in 1410
- Description:
- In Middle English., Script: Written by one hand in bastard Anglicana., Initials at beginning of each day, 4-line, on ff. 22r, 34r, 53r, 106r, gold against pink and blue grounds, with white filigree, partial borders of acanthus leaves and daisy buds in purple, pink, orange and blue, black hair-spray with green leaves and gold dots. (Similar initials or more important decoration probably occurred on the folios missing at the beginning of Prohemium, Monday, Friday and Chapter 64.) 3- and 2-lines initials gold against pink and blue, with white filigree, short border of hair-spray with green leaves and gold dots. 1-line initials and paragraph marks gold with blue penwork or blue with red used in text and in running titles and notations in outer margin. Line-fillers in blue and gold; rubrics throughout., Outer margin of f. 37 cut off., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Olive green goatskin, blind-tooled, with gold-tooled label. Two clasp-and-catch fastenings. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, ca. 1842-1930). Original flyleaf (f. iv) is a bifolium, inserted sideways, from a manuscript written in England, 14th century, in Anglicana formata. On the recto and verso at top, portions of a prose text by Richard Rolle; on the recto and verso at bottom, Rolle's Commandment of Love.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410. and Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
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- Creator:
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 331
- Image Count:
- 92
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of 1) Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love. 2) Poem added, 16th century, by Richard Hutton. 3) Richard Rolle, The Mending of Life. 4) Verse life of John of Bridlington (d. 1379). Written in a Northern dialect; numerous marginal and interlinear notes in hands of 16th-17th centuries illustrate that the text was being read for comprehension in this period. Annotations include corrections (often by one individual on comments made by another), glosses on particular words, and whole passages transcribed in the margins
- Description:
- In English (Northern dialect)., Script: Written by a single scribe in bastard Secretary script. Marginal and interlinear glosses by several hands, 16th-17th centuries., Blue initials, 2-line, with elaborate pen-work flourishes, in red: zigzags along the margin and foliage designs in and around the body of letter. Underlining, initial strokes, and simple helical line-fillers, in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original, wound sewing on seven small, double, tawed-skin supports laced into grooves on the inside of oak boards and pegged. Covered in pink, tawed skin with two strap-and-pin fastenings, flower-shaped pin bases on the lower board. Fastenings wanting and supports breaking. Original pastedowns from an antiphonal (England, 13th century) with parts of the office for Stephen at Matins and at Lauds; musical notation on 4-line red staves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiphonaries, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The fire of love, etc