Devotional writings

Description

Title: Devotional writings
Contributor: Winter, Simon, d. 1448.
Published / Created: [ca. 1500]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper. Includes passages from the Lay Folks' Catechism; The Virtues of the Mass; and Symon Wynter's Amplification of the Life of St. Jerome, drawn from the Legenda aurea and from the apocryphal correspondence between Sts. Cyril and Augustine, and supplemented with revelations of St. Birgitta. Also contains excerpts concerning the Virgin Mary and confession
Description: In English and Latin.
Watermarks: unidentified bull's head, small in size, buried in gutter.
Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in Secretary script, with additions and corrections added in the 16th century.
Edges frayed and upper portion of most leaves stained, with loss of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Title, in gold, on spine: "Life of St. Jerome. M. S.". Remains of early place mark on f. 22.
Provenance: Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 1052) and to Professor Charlton Lewis, Yale 1886. Given to Yale in 1964 by Charlton M. Lewis, Jr., Grace Lewis Case, and Penelope Lewis Rainey, in memory of their father, Professor Charlton M. Lewis.
Extent: ff. iii + 56 + ii : 215 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 317
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Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance England 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic): Catechisms
Confession
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Exempla
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Catechisms
Confession > Early works to 1800
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Exempla > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
England > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Devotional Writings. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.