Medieval Collection: Jesus is taken down from the cross

Image Number: JRL0924559dc
Reference Number: English MS 98
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Image Title: Jesus is taken down from the cross
Alternative Image Title: Die Veneris
Translated Image Title: Friday
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: 105r
Image Sequence Number: 105r
Description: Meditations on the Life of Christ. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus come to take down the body of Jesus from the cross. Illuminated and pen-flourished initials. The written space is 188 x 130 mm, with two columns.
Language Code: enm-GB
Subject: Christianity
Subject: Religion
Subject: Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Category of Material: Manuscripts
Sub-Category: Codex
Technique Used: Handwriting
Technique Used: Illumination (image-making process)
Medium: Ink
Support: Vellum
Time Period Covered: 1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered: Israel: Jerusalem
People Covered: Nicodemus (Biblical figure)
People Covered: Jesus Christ
People Covered: Joseph, of Arimathea, Saint
Item Height: 304 mm
Item Width: 204 mm
Current Repository: John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance: Knyvett, Robert
Provenance: Evans, Thomas William
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: 1075
Image Creation Technique: Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 2010-11
Metadata Language: eng-GB