Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 165

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Harvard University Library
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Houghton Library, Harvard University
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  • MS Lat 165
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Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Commentary on the Canticles
    • Stimulus compassionis
    • Devota meditacio de beneficiis dei
    • Disputacio inter corpus et animam
    • De mundi miseria
    • Speculum humanae salvationis
    • Oleum effusum nomine tuum : manuscript, [between 1400 and 1450]
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Description
  • Physical Description:
    146 leaves, bound : vellum ; 24 cm.

    Notes:
    Written in England by several unidentified hands, in several scripts; some red and blue ink flourishes; many of the initials in the first two sections are cut away. Parts brought together as early as 15th- or 16th century when contents were listed on front flyleaf.
    In an 18th-cent. (?) green vellum binding, rebacked with brown calf.
    In a tray case, 26 cm.
    MS Lat 165. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

    Subjects:
    Bible -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800
    Salvation -- Early works to 1800
    Religious poetry, Latin

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

    Contents:
    1. Speculum humanae salvationis, in an anglicana script (ff. 1-91) -- 2. Oleum effusum, part of Richard Rolle's Commentary on Canticles, in the same hand and script as previous section (93-113r) -- 3. Stimulus compassionis (incipit: Devota meditacio de beneficiis dei), in a bastard anglicana script (113v-139v) -- 4. Disputacio inter corpus et animam, in a fromal gothic bookhand (140-145) -- 5. De mundi miseria, in same hand and script as previous section (145-146).

Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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