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".
Alternative Title:
Meditationes vitae Christi. English
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I: Written by two scribes in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary very close to Anglicana). Part II: Written in careful Gothica Cursiva (Secretary)., 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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Church of England.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
Beinecke copy imperfect: letter-press t.p. wanting; each vol. has engraved t.p. only., Errata on versos of index leaves of v. 1-6; on rectos of index leaves of v. 8-9., Includes index., and Vol. 1 has added engraved t.p.; v. 2-10 have engraved title-pages only.
Publisher:
Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ... To be had of J. White ...
Subject (Name):
Drayton, H. C.--Bookplate. and Jersey, Victor Albert George Child-Villiers,--earl of,--1845-1915--Bookplate.
Imperfect: p. 114-115 (signature, G82) wanting. Bookplate of Sir G. Thomas., In 3 parts, each with special title page. Pages partly blank., and The history of St. Paul's cathedral in London -- A view of the monuments, situate in and about the quire, side-iles, and chappels adjacent; as they stood in September, Anno d. MDCXLI. with their epitaphs exactly imitated -- Appendix in Historian ecclesiæ cathedralis S. Pavli ...
Publisher:
Printed by T. Warren,
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) and Thomas, G.,--Sir--Bookplate
Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold by Francis Saunders at the Blew Anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange, and James Knapton at the Crown in St. Pauls church-yard
Collection Created:
London : Printed for F. Saunders, at the Blue Anchor in the New Exchange in the Strand, 1693