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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9936

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1339

Title:

Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi

Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

Author:

Love, Nicholas, active 1410

Nicholas Love WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 107 : parchment ; 196 x 280 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ingilby, William Henry, 1874-1950

Sir William Henry Ingilby, 4th Bt. WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Nicholas Love's translation of the Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi, written in England in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-107v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-138 142(+3, flyleaf). Catchwords in scrolls; quire and leaf signatures as letters and arabic numerals, some worn or trimmed away. 32 long lines, ruled in ink; top and bottom 2 lines full across; pricking visible in outer margins of most leaves. Written in an anglicana formata script; final motto, f. 106, in textura. The same scribe copied...
Decoration: 6-line initial, f. 2v, and 4-line initial, f. 4v, each parted red and blue; 4-line blue initial with simple void white design on f. 97; 3- or 2-line initials in blue begin the chapters. Alternating red and blue paragraph marks; running title and marginal notes in the hand of the scribe. Biblical texts underscored in red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Said by E. M. Thompson, The Carthusian Order in England (London 1930), 331 and 339, to have once belonged to Mount Grace because of its later Ingilby ownership; however, the manuscript seems to have entered the Ingilby library at a relatively late date, given the frequence of other sixteenth century ownership notes. Notes and pen trials include: a 15th inscription on f. 21, in plummet...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Jesus Christ

Biographies

Early works

Devotional literature, English (Middle)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862168

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens