Mirour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ

Description

Title: Mirour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
Creator: Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Contributor: Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century.
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi. Interpolated is an anonymous Middle English translation of the Meditationes de passione Christi
Description: In Middle English.
Ownership inscription of Sir John Gage on f. 126.
Layout: single columns of 24 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork; six initials in red.
Binding: nineteenth-century vellum.
Provenance: Formerly owned by the Gage family. Ex libris Viscount Gage. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 126 leaves : 295 x 205 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.
Subject (Topic): Devotional literature, English (Middle)
English literature
English prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English prose literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Gage, Henry Raynald Gage, Viscount, 1895-1982 > Bookplate
Gage, John, Sir, 1479-1556 > Autograph
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Nicholas Love, Mirour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ (Takamiya MS 20). General Colleciton, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.