Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of Hilton's Scale of Perfection. Volume also contains the complete text of Hilton's brief tract, Of angels' song
Description:
In Middle English., Ownership inscription of John Price on recto of front flyleaf., Ownership inscription of Samuel Courthope Bosanquet on recto of second front flyleaf., Layout: single columns of approximately 30 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: contemporary white tawed leather over wooden boards; remains of hardware. Modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hilton, Walter, -1396.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. Spurious and doubtful works
Call Number:
Osborn fa46
Image Count:
190
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
The manuscript contains a Middle English version of the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Stimulus amoris (The Prickynge of Love), attributed in the MS to Walter Hilton, as well as the anonymous work The Chastising of God's Children (also attributed to Hilton in the MS). Written on parchment in Anglicana formata script in the South-East Midlands region during the first half of the fifteenth century
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Colophon on f. 74v: "Thus endith the tretis yclepid the pricke of love the wheche was made of a hye clerke & a devout doctor of divinite yclepid Boneaventure of the ordre of freris menoris, & after ward he was a cardinal of Rome & yclepid dominus Albanensus, and sithin the same tretis was translat out of latyn in to englyshe by the travaile & diligence of a religious persone maister Walter Hilton chanoun & governor of the house of Thurgarton.", Incipit on f. 75r: "Here bigynnyth the kalender of this book now folwing the wheche book was made of a discrete & a reverent clerke & a chanoun ycleipd maister Walter Hilton governour of the hous of Thurgarton biside Newerk in the diosise of Yoorke and he sente the same book unto a religious woman lyvyng solitarie clepying the same book chastising of goddis childrin.", Inscription on f. 53r: Henry Richardson., Inscription on f. 136v: Thomas Shorte., Binding: Modern quarter binding on wooden boards., and Schøyen MS 1701.
