Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Mirror of the blessed life of Jesus Christ.
Call Number
Kane MS. 21
Identifier
https://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/z603r2568
Publisher
[London, England] ; [between 1425 and 1475]
Language
English
Date Created
1425-1475
Extent
iii, 117, iii : parchment ; 320 x 215 mm
Provenance
Kane MS. 21 is of composite origin. The text of Nicholas Love's Mirror was written by one scribe and decorated in the London area around 1430, while fols. 1v-3r and fols. 114v-117r are the work of two other scribes, the third perhaps being from Norfolk. The manuscript was sold at Sotheby's, London, at a sale beginning on 15 November 1911. Francis Edwards Booksellers, established in London (1855), purchased the manuscript at the Huth sale. In 1917, Grenville Kane (1854-1943), of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., purchased the manuscript from the London and New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Kane's bookplate is on the inside front cover. The Kane Collection was acquired by the Princeton University Library from Kane's heirs in February 1946.
Source Acquisition
Acquired; Estate of Grenville Kane; 1946.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 46-50
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Script: Anglicana formata.
Decoration: two 2-line initials A in gold, blue, green, and rose, and pink with three-quarter foliate border for list of chapter running titles, fol. 4. Latin and English scriptural quotations in red within the text.
Binding Note
England, 19th century; binding by Francis Bedford (1800-1884), who operated his own bindery in London from 1850.

Discovery Information

Subject
Jesus Christ—Biography—Early works to 1800
Jesus Christ—Meditations—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts—England—15th century
Meditations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
120

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/752b7ad6-b535-4207-9285-000b4e39603f/manifest