Indiana University Bloomington, Poole 20

Images provided by hosting institution via

Metadata

DS ID:

DS567

Shelfmark:

Poole 20

Title:

Inscription
De Amore Dei
Incipit tractatus Ricardi Heremite de Ampoll de amore dei contra amatores mundi
Horologium Sapientiae
Tractatus Ricardi Heremite de hoc nomine Ihesus
Commentary
De Emendacione Vite sive Regula Vivendi
Tractatus Ricardi Heremite de emendacione Vite sive Regula vivendi
Rule of Living

Author:

John Shirley

John Shirley WIKIDATA

Richard Rolle

Richard Rolle WIKIDATA

Henry Suso

Henry Suso WIKIDATA

Scribe:

John Shirley, ? d. 1456

John Shirley WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

s. XV(med); 1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound in eighteenth-century English red morocco, gilt borders, gilt edges, marbled endleaves, paper flyleaves (one loose), upper cover detached; in a blue cloth case.
Other decoration, ff. 40: 2- to 4-line initials in dark blue; a few marginal notes.
Script, ff. 40: English cursive book hand.
Layout, ff. 40: Collation: i–iii#^8#, iv#^3# [of 4, blank iv canceled after fol. 35], v#^8#, vi#^5# [apparently of 8, blank v–vii canceled after fol. 38], with horizontal catchwords in simple cartouches, traces of leaf signatures; Ruled in plummet, 40 lines to fol. 8v and 41 lines thereafter, written-space approximately 213 mm. by 134 mm.; written in dark brown ink.

Former Owner(s):

Sixteenth-century calligraphic signature W: Newmanat end; Ralph Palmer (1684-1752), first earl Verney, of Little Chelsea, near London, with his armorial bookplate and partially-erased inscription Bibliotheca Palmeriana, Londini, 1747 by descent to Sotheby’s, 12 November 1919, lot 187.

Ralph Verney, 1st Earl Verney WIKIDATA

Sir (Robert) Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937); his sale, Sotheby’s, 15 October 1945, lot 2089; George A. Poole, bought from Lawrence Witten, 1957; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole collection in 1958.

Leicester Harmsworth WIKIDATA

Sir (Robert) Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937); his sale, Sotheby’s, 15 October 1945, lot 2089; George A. Poole, bought from Lawrence Witten, 1957; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole collection in 1958.

Laurence Claiborne Witten II WIKIDATA

Sir (Robert) Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937); his sale, Sotheby’s, 15 October 1945, lot 2089; George A. Poole, bought from Lawrence Witten, 1957; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole collection in 1958.

George Amos Poole WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: The manuscript was clearly in an institutional library in the late Middle Ages, for there is a coppery-green offset from a chain hasp in the lower centre of the back former pastedown.
Bibliography: Allen 1927, pp. 67, 205 and 238; Faye and Bond 1962, p. 179; Marzac 1968, p. 184, no. 202 (as Harmsworth), and p. 185, no. 233 (as Sotheby’s, 1919); Armstrong 1968, passim.
Flyleaf: Latin.
ff. 40: Latin.
Flyleaf: Inscription on the flyleaf, ‘Close the book, for the love [of God]’, is a partial pun on the title of the first text, and it resembles the hand of John Shirley, the London bookseller (d. 1456; cf. Connolly 1998).
Explicit, Flyleaf: Claude librum pro amore dei.
Incipit, ff. 1r-16v: tua dulcedine, Te mecum & meis commendo sine fine, A.M.E.N.
Explicit, ff. 1r-16v: Quoniam mundanorum insania gaudium.
ff. 17r-27r: This is the text discussed in 1968 by Elizabeth Armstrong, who notes its similarity to Oxford, Merton College MS 204, fols. 207v-110v, observing that Thomas Hoccleve clearly based part of his Lerne to Die on a similar abridgement in four parts from Book II, chapters 2-5, of the Horologium sapientiae by Henry Suso (c. 1295-1366; for the Merton manuscript, see now Thomson 2009, p...
Incipit, ff. 17r-27r: de quo loquitur S dominus noster seculorum, A.M.E.N., Explicit, Quarta particula huius libri que docet qualiter pura mente debeas dominum nostrum ihesum xpistum iugiter laudare, AMEN.
Explicit, ff. 17r-27r: Scire more, est paratum habere cor et animam.
Incipit, ff. 28r-29v.: hodie non recedit a me, Ergo benedictum sit nomen ihesu in secula seculorum, Amen”.
Explicit, ff. 28r-29v.: Oleum effusum nomen tuum ideo adolescentule.
ff. 29v-39r.: with chapters 1 (fol. 29v), 2 (fol. 30v), 3 (fol. 31r), 4 (fol. 31v), 5 (fol. 33r), 6 (fol. 33v), 7 (fol. 34r), 8 (fol. 34v), 9 (fol. 35r), 10 (fol. 35v), 11 (fol. 36r) and 12 (fol. 37v).
Incipit, ff. 29v-39r.: eternaliter laudare Cui sit honor . . . seculorum Amen, Explicit.
Explicit, ff. 29v-39r.: Hic est libellus de emendacione.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Poole20_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Poole20_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington