Detail View: Medieval Collection: Mary visits Elizabeth

Image Number: 
JRL0924377dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 98
Previous Accession Number: 
R12144
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Mary visits Elizabeth
Alternative Image Title: 
Die Lune
Translated Image Title: 
Monday
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: 
14r
Image Sequence Number: 
014r
Description: 
Meditations on the Life of Christ. Mary goes to Jerusalem to visit her cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth and and her unborn son John are filled with the Holy Ghost at the sight of Mary. Mary responds to Elizabeth beginning 'my soule magnifieth oure lorde..', the words of the Magnificat prayer. Red rubrication, illuminated and pen-flourished initials. The written space is 188 x 130 mm, with two columns.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Language Code: 
lat-GB
Subject: 
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Religion
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Illumination (image-making process)
Technique Used: 
handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered: 
Israel: Jerusalem
People Covered: 
John, the Baptist, Saint
People Covered: 
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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: 
165
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2010-11
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB