Creator: Love, Nicholas, active 1410 / Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Creator:: Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Published / Created:: [ca. 1450]
Call Number:: Takamiya MS 20
Image Count:: 266
Resource Type:: unspecified
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., and Binding: nineteenth-century vellum.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
Subject (Topic):: Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ

Creator:: Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Published / Created:: [ca. 1450]
Call Number:: Takamiya MS 63
Image Count:: 345
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi
Description:: In Middle English., All corners repaired, not affecting main text block. Approximately 34 missing leaves; replaced by manuscript copies of the missing text in a modern cursive., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: rubricated. Some marginal note initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
Subject (Topic):: Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ

Creator:: Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Published / Created:: [ca. 1450]
Call Number:: Takamiya MS 4
Image Count:: 210
Resource Type:: unspecified
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., and Binding: eighteenth-century half calf over marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Love, Nicholas, active 1410. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):: Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ

Creator:: Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Published / Created:: [ca. 1410]
Call Number:: Takamiya MS 8
Image Count:: 276
Resource Type:: unspecified
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. This version concludes with the "additional" chapter on the sacrament
Description:: In Middle English., Presentation inscription at end of text, in red ink: This booke is gyffyne to Allyse Belacyse. Be the gyfte of Johane Countesse of kente., Presentation inscription following the previous, in black ink: I Allyse Belacyse, gyfe this booke to Elysabeth my serua[n]t wt. my handys., Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: illuminated initial and a full illuminated bar border on the first page of text; other illuminated initials., and Binding: eighteenth-century full paneled calf, gilt. Six-compartmented spine, decorated, gilt. Spine tag in red leather: Lyffe of Jesu Criste.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut, New Haven., and England.
Subject (Name):: Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
Subject (Topic):: Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Women, and Books and reading
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ

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