Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Speculum vitae ; The siege of Jerusalem.
Call Number
Taylor MS. 11
Identifier
https://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/7w62fd56z
Publisher
[London, England] ; [between 1300 and 1400]
Language
Middle English
Date Created
1300-1400
Format
Book
Extent
1 volume (i, 110, i leaves) : parchment ; 360 x 275 mm
Provenance
Taylor MS. 11 was written by a scribe of West Yorkshire origin, probably in Yorkshire, and may have belonged to the Augustinian Priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at Bolton, West Yorkshire. The American antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten (1926-1995), of New Haven, Connecticut, acquired the manuscript and sold it to Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985), of Princeton, New Jersey, Class of 1930. Taylor's blue oval bookplate is on the inside front cover. His bequest to the Princeton University Library, 1985.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert H. Taylor.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 426-428.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
1st work: an anonymous mid-14th-century Middle English translation of Pseudo-Bonaventure's Meditationes passionis Christi; 2nd work: The Siege of Jerusalem, alliterative version, lines 1-1143.
Script: Anglicana formata, the work of one scribe, but heavily corrected by a later 15th-century hand.
Decoration: Each of the three works opens with a 4-line blue initial with red pen flourishes. Sections within each work open with similar 2-line initials.
Binding Note
England, 19th century. Tooled and gilt-stamped parchment over beveled wooden boards (8 mm thick), with leather ties. Sewn on 5 raised bands; endbands with secondary sewing in olive green.

Discovery Information

Subject
Jesus Christ—Biography—Meditations—Early works to 1800
Jesus Christ—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Jerusalem—History—Siege, 70 A.D.—Poetry—Early works to 1800
English poetry—Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
224

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/eb970982-916a-4b1c-b5df-0fe93cf09bf5/manifest