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Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
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Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ.
Created
[England], [ca. 1450]
Physical Description
94 l. : parchment ; 305 x 195 mm
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
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.
In Middle English.
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.
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Summary
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.
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Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 14, 2013
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Nicholas Love, Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ (Takamiya MS 4). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Nicholas Love, Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ (Takamiya MS 4). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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