Item Summary

A compilation of English devotional treatises.

Descriptive Information

Title
[English devotional miscellany].
Call Number
Garrett MS. 144
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpk02cr456
Publisher
[England] ; [between 1475-1500]
Language
Middle English
Date Created
1475-1500
Format
Manuscript
Extent
9 leaves : parchment ; 168 x 111 (132 x 90) mm bound to 176 x 126 mm.
Provenance
Owned in the 16th century by William Hart, son of Thomas Hart of Gloucester. The next attested owner of the manuscript was William Bromley whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedown. Passed down to William Bromley-Davenport. Auctioned by Sotheby's, London in 1903 to Bernard Quaritch, who sold it to Robert Garrett, Class of 1897. Garrett deposited the manuscript (deposit no. 969) in the Princeton University Library--his gift to the Library in 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift; of Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 334-336.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1r-5r: [Variant of the Wycliffite version of the treatise on the Ten Commandments]
2. fol. 5r-6r: De septem operibus misericordie corporalibus. Excerpt from the first chapter of a Wycliffite treatise on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
3. fol. 6r-7r: Septem opera misericordie spiritualia. Excerpt from chapter 7 of a Wycliffite treatise on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
4. fol. 7r-7v: Pater noster qui es in celis et cetera. Common prayers and texts.
5. fol. 7v-9v: [Stipulations for partaking in the Eucharist]
Notes
Incipit: [Variant of the Wycliffite version] "Alle maner men shulden holden goddes biddynges, for withoutten holding of hem may no man be saued ..." -- [De septem operibus] "Criste seithe in a Boke of his gospel: blessid be merciful men for thei shal haue mercy ..." -- [Septem opera misericordie spiritualia] "Hic incipiunt septem opera misericordie spiritualia. Sithe we shulden seruen oure parishones in spirituel almus as thei seruen vs in bodeli almus of sustenaunce ..." -- [Pater noster] "Pater noster qui es in celis et cetera. Oure fader that arte in heuene Ihalewed be thi name ..." -- [Stipulations] "Also we commaunde you on goddis bihalue and under peyne of cursyng that no man be so folehardy to resseyue housell of cristis body ..."
Ms. composite codex.
Title from print catalog.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (paper) + 9 + ii + ii (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 19-21 lines per page ; ruled.
Decoration: Blue 3- or 2-line initials with red flourishes; alternating blue and red paraph marks.
Origin: Written in the third quarter of the 15th century, but is otherwise of unknown origin.
Binding Note
Later binding. England, 18th century. Brown calf over pasteboard. Blind-tooled edging with an acorn in the four corners. Gold-stamping along edges. Rebacked.

Discovery Information

Subject
Devotional literature, English (Middle)—Early works to 1800
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Early works to 1800
Ten commandments—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800
Spirituality—Catholic Church—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
34

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/16d9acb3-3d29-45aa-94e4-2b6f5e5967c8/manifest