Horologium sapientiae

Description

Title: Horologium sapientiae
Creator: Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of The Horloge de Sapience, a loose translation and adaptation into French of Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae. With a Colophon, in French verse, stating that the translation was made by a French Franciscan master of theology at Neufchateau in 1389
Description: In French.
Script: Written in batarde script, below top line.
Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, foliation and underlining, all in red.
Binding: 1800-1810, France. Diced brown calf, blind-and gold-tooled. Edges gilt. Stains from turn-ins of early binding on original front parchment pastedown. Rebacked.
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros. of London in 1955 by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. ii + i + 181 + ii : 324 x 222 (228 x 140) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Translations
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.
Franciscans
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts
Devotional literature, French
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mysticism
Subjects: Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
Franciscans > Manuscripts
Devotional literature, French
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mysticism > Early works to 1800
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.