Item Summary

The text is an early 15th century Middle English translation by Nicholas Love, Prior of the Carthusian Abbey of Mount Grace, Yorkshire, from Pseudo-Bonaventure, Speculum vitae Christi.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Mirror of the blessed life of Jesus Christ] / [Nicholas Love].
Call Number
Princeton MS. 186
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4q77g557v
Publisher
[London, England], [between 1400 and 1425]
Language
Middle English
Date Created
1400-1425
Format
Manuscript
Extent
22 leaves : parchment ; 285 x 210 (180 x 115) mm bound to 301 x 219 mm.
Provenance
Unknown early and intermediate provenance. Maggs Bros. had the manuscript in 1880. Bernard Quaritch offered it for sale in 1912 and 1916. Prof. David Rolston Bitzer purchased it from Davis and Orioli in 1935 and presumably passed it on to his son David C. Bitzer. The Princeton University Library purchased the manuscript at Swann Auction Galleries, December 2004 (Acc. no. 2005-54).
Source Acquisition
Purchase; 200412.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 464-466.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "... and resurrexionne soo þat a symple soule þat can not þengke bot bodies or bodely þinges ..."
Explicit: "Of þe myracle done at þe brydale of water turned in to wyne. Byfell þat daye twelf moneþ þat oure lorde ihesus was baptized as it is sayde ..."
Ms. codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. iii (modern paper) + 22 + iii (modern paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 34 lines per page ; ruled.
Decoration: Six 3-line blue initials with red pen work decoration. Rubrics, running titles, marginal chapter numbers, and Latin headings in red ink. Paraph marks in red and blue.
Origin: Written in England (London) in the beginning of the 15th century.
Binding Note
Modern binding. United States, 21st century. Rebound in the Preservation Office, Princeton University Library, by Mick LeTourneaux, 2005. Formerly in a 19th-century English binding of red morocco over paste-board with gold-tooled edging, the remains of which are housed with the rebound manuscript.

Discovery Information

Subject
Jesus Christ—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, English—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Medieval—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
54

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0be5bfcc-26c1-4467-b69c-0b413efd61f3/manifest