COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0920270dc
Reference Number:
English MS 94
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Book of the craft of dying
Alternative Image Title:
Ars Moriendi
Parent Work Title:
Meditations on the Life of Christ and other 15th century manuscripts
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Meditatione Vitae Christi
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Mirror of the life of Christ
Creator:
Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410
Creator Role:
Translator
Creator Attribution:
Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century
Display Creator:
Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410
Date Created:
15th century
Page:
125v
Image Sequence Number:
125v
Description:
Book of the craft of dying. Chapter one: on the commendation of death and on knowing how to die well. The written space is 265 x 153 mm, with two columns in short-r anglicana formata.
Language Code:
lat-GB
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Religion
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Item Height:
362 mm
Item Width:
240 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Northamptone, Gulielmus
Provenance:
Wanley, Humfrey, given to Coventry School.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
References:
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 415. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.21.
Bibliographic Citation:
Comper, F.M.M. & Congreve, George, 'The book of the craft of dying, and other early English tracts concerning death, taken from manuscripts and printed books in the British museum and Bodleian libraries, now first done into modern spelling' (London; New York: Longmans, Green, and co., 1917)
Cost:
Purchased by Gordon Duff for the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers Bull & Auvache for £50.00 in January 1894.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-05-05
Multi Page Number:
1270
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-08
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Book of the craft of dying
