Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 701

Source

Harvard University Library

Library

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Shelfmark

• MS Eng 701

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q252871

Date

• 1400

Language

• Middle English

Title

• Pore caitif
• Here beginneth a treatise that sufficith to every Christian man and woman to live after for to be saved
• Poor caitiff
• Here bigyneþ a tretis þat suffisiþ to evry c[hri]sten man and woman to lyve aftir for to be saved by which is clepid a pore caytif : manuscript, [ca. 1400]
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Description

• Physical Description:
  1 v. (132 leaves) : vellum ; 18 cm.

  Summary:
  Copy of 14 tracts composed as a manual of religious instruction for the laity.

  Notes:
  Written in a textura quadrata script chiefly in black ink, first line in red; with a black initial with red and blue flourishes; and red and blue initials throughout; running head and marginal Biblical citations.
  Title from incipit.
  Bound in 19th-cent. calf.
  In a tray case, 19 cm.
  MS Eng 701. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

  Subjects:
  Moral education -- England -- Early works to 1800
  Christian life -- England -- Early works to 1800

  Form / Genre:
  Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1350-1400.
  Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.

Rights

• Houghton Library, Harvard University
  

License

• http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ois:hlviewerterms

Digitisation

• https://id.lib.harvard.edu/digital_collections/990097113090203941

Manifest URL

• https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:7272380

Related

• https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097113090203941/catalog