COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0924352dc
Reference Number:
English MS 98
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Prohemium
Alternative Image Title:
Preface
Parent Work Title:
Speculum Vite Christi
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Meditatione Vitae Christi
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Meditations on the Life of Christ
Translated Parent Work Title:
Mirror of the life of Christ
Creator:
Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410
Creator Role:
Translator
Display Creator:
Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410
Date Created:
15th century [early]
Page:
1v
Image Sequence Number:
001v
Description:
Preface. Red rubrication, illuminated and pen-flourished initials. Latin annotation in margin. The written space is 188 x 130 mm, with two columns. The leaf is affected by damp-staining.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Language Code:
lat-GB
Subject:
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Christianity
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Technique Used:
handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Item Height:
304 mm
Item Width:
204 mm
Current Repository:
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance:
Evans, Thomas William
Provenance:
Knyvett, Robert
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. 416. 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.22.
Bibliographic Citation:
Love, Nicholas, 'Mirror of the blessed life of Jesus Christ: a reading text, edited by Michael G. Sargent.' (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004).
Notes:
The Meditation on the Life of Christ or the Meditatione Vitae Christi was believed to have been written by the famous 13th-century Franciscan John Bonaventura but more recent scholarship has now attributed the authorship to a little known 14th-century Italian Franciscan, Johannes de Caulibus. Little is know of Love himself, though it appears that he was the prior of Mount Grace, a Carthusian monastery in Yorkshire, as a 'Dom Nicholas Love' is listed as such in 1410.
Cost:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers Bull & Auvache for £25.00 on 12 July 1905.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-07-01
Multi Page Number:
40
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-11
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Prohemium
