Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium (thick) of Passion of St. Bartholomew (25 August). Text is continuous
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in neat but somewhat uneven Beneventan script. Passages added in cramped text hands, (ca. 1250), in lower margins, f. 2r-v., Leaves trimmed with some loss of text along upper and outer margins; portions of f. 2v illegible due to paste and offset impressions of leather turn-ins and wooden boards., and Bifolium used as flyleaf and pastedown.
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. Spurious and doubtful works
Call Number:
Osborn fa46
Image Count:
190
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
The manuscript contains a Middle English version of the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Stimulus amoris (The Prickynge of Love), attributed in the MS to Walter Hilton, as well as the anonymous work The Chastising of God's Children (also attributed to Hilton in the MS). Written on parchment in Anglicana formata script in the South-East Midlands region during the first half of the fifteenth century
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Colophon on f. 74v: "Thus endith the tretis yclepid the pricke of love the wheche was made of a hye clerke & a devout doctor of divinite yclepid Boneaventure of the ordre of freris menoris, & after ward he was a cardinal of Rome & yclepid dominus Albanensus, and sithin the same tretis was translat out of latyn in to englyshe by the travaile & diligence of a religious persone maister Walter Hilton chanoun & governor of the house of Thurgarton.", Incipit on f. 75r: "Here bigynnyth the kalender of this book now folwing the wheche book was made of a discrete & a reverent clerke & a chanoun ycleipd maister Walter Hilton governour of the hous of Thurgarton biside Newerk in the diosise of Yoorke and he sente the same book unto a religious woman lyvyng solitarie clepying the same book chastising of goddis childrin.", Inscription on f. 53r: Henry Richardson., Inscription on f. 136v: Thomas Shorte., Binding: Modern quarter binding on wooden boards., and Schøyen MS 1701.
Manuscript, on paper, in English cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated June 27, 1586. Includes a commentary on the Ten Commandments
Description:
H. N. might be Henrick Niclaes (Henry Nicholas), the founder of the Family of Love. All of his works were signed H. N. and many were translated into English from Low German., In English., and Binding: contemporary parchment.
