Detail View: Medieval Collection: Annunciation
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Image Number:
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JRL0924369dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 98
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Previous Accession Number:
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R12144
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Annunciation
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Alternative Image Title:
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Die Lune
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Translated Image Title:
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Monday
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Parent Work Title:
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Speculum Vite Christi
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Meditatione Vitae Christi
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Meditations on the Life of Christ
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Translated Parent Work Title:
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Mirror of the life of Christ
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Creator:
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Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410
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Creator Role:
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Translator
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Display Creator:
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Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410
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Date Created:
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15th century [early]
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Page:
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10r
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Image Sequence Number:
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010r
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Description:
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Meditations on the Life of Christ. The angel Gabriel appears to the virgin Mary telling her that she will conceive and bear a child. Mary asks how this will happen as she is a virgin and the angel answers that she will remain untouched but will conceive through the power of the Holy Spirit. The angel also tells her that her cousin Elizabeth who was considered barren is also with child. Red rubrication, illuminated and pen-flourished initials. The written space is 188 x 130 mm, with two columns.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Subject:
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Christianity
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Subject:
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Religion
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Technique Used:
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handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Time Period Covered:
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1 BCE - 500 CE
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Places Covered:
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Israel: Northern: Nazareth
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People Covered:
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Item Height:
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304 mm
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Item Width:
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204 mm
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Current Repository:
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John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Evans, Thomas William
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Provenance:
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Knyvett, Robert
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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References:
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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.
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.22.
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Love, Nicholas, 'Mirror of the blessed life of Jesus Christ: a reading text, edited by Michael G. Sargent.' (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004).
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Notes:
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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.
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Cost:
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Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers Bull & Auvache for £25.00 on 12 July 1905.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-07-01
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Multi Page Number:
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125
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2010-11
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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