Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi (DS9936) (Q43812)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621685, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862168, mssHM 1339)
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Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi (DS9936)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621685, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862168, mssHM 1339)

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    Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi
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    Jesus Christ--Biography--Early works to 1800
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    Devotional literature, English (Middle)
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    between 1400 and 1450
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    Extent: ff. 107 : parchment ; 196 x 280 mm
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    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.
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    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...
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    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.
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
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    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...
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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