Stimulus amoris, [14--].
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Description
- Title
- Stimulus amoris, [14--].
- Creator
- Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. Spurious and doubtful works
- Contributor
- Jacobus, Mediolanensis, active 13th century.
- Abstract
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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
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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.
Schøyen MS 1701. - Provenance
- Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, 2005.
- Extent
- 1 30 cm. x 21 cm. vol. (198 l.) ;
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English, Middle (1100-1500)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Osborn fa46
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Name)
- Hilton, Walter, -1396.
- Subject (Topic)
- Devotional literature
- Subjects
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Hilton, Walter, -1396
Devotional literature > Early works to 1800
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Stimulus Amoris. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9370495
- Object ID (OID)
- 10884361
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