The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1339
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9936
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1339
- Title:
- Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1450
- Language:
- Middle English
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 107 : parchment ; 196 x 280 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ingilby, William Henry, 1874-1950
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862168
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50981/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
