Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ

Description

Title: Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
Creator: Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Contributor: Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century.
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the complete text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi, a text often attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventure or Johannes de Caulibus. The manuscript also contains John Lydgate's Fifteen joys of Our Lady and the anonymous poems, The fifteen ooes of Christ and The charter of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Description: In Middle English.
Layout: single columns of 45 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: illuminated initial and three-quarter border on first page of text; three other illuminated initials with gold.
Verse ownership inscriptions of Erkynwald Gyttyns on three back flyleaves, accompanied by pen trials and sketches.
Ownership inscription of Francis Layton on verso of third front flyleaf.
Binding: eighteenth-century half calf over marbled boards.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Erkynwald Gyttyns. Formerly owned by Francis Layton. Formerly owned by Sir Mark Masterman Sykes. Ex libris Robert Denison. Phillipps MS 8820. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 94 leaves : 305 mm x 195 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic): Devotional literature, English (Middle)
English literature
English poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Denison, Robert, -1788 > Bookplate
Gyttyns, Erkynwald > Ownership
Layton, Francis, 1746-1829 > Autograph
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 > Ownership
Sykes, Mark Masterman, Sir > Ownership
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Nicholas Love, Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ (Takamiya MS 4). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.