Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 114
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- Latin MS 114
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- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Brief setting out the names of those for whom prayers are asked
- Tituli of houses to which the roll was taken
- Agent
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- Preferred form
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913
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- Lindsay, James Ludovic, Earl (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, 1847-1913
- Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall
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- Description
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- Extent:
Leaf height: 12954 mm, width: 183 mm.
Binding:
Rolled on its original plain wooden cylinder 245mm in length, with a plain metal boss at each end with ring attached.
Decoration:
Headed by a painting. The extreme top has been cut off. This is in two stages. The whole composition is framed in red, and has painted in grisaille, in spandrels at the angles, the Evangelistic emblems: at top, eagle and man, mutilated; at bottom, lion and ox. The lower stage shows the interior of a building, stonework dark, windows right and left, white: three smaller cusped windows above, blue; a large arched field in centre, gold. In centre, the abbess lies dying or dead on a bed, mainly red: her head to left. Tiled floor: a large gold holy water bucket, with asperge in front. At the head and feet kneel clerics: the one on right holds a gold incense ship and swings a gold censer. Eight or nine nuns stand beyond the bed, one of whom holds a very tall gold processional cross, and another a crozier. A third has a large book. The upper stage also shows the interior of a building: stonework pink, roof scarlet within: windows on right and left. In centre the Virgin, in blue, and the Child, seated, full-face: the Child at the Virgin's breast. Below, St Mary. On left St Benedict, in a black habit, with crozier and book. On right. St Elizabeth, in white headdress, and blue mantle over scarlet. She holds an object which may be a church, and a book. All have large gold nimbi.
Start of Brief: Large initial with pink flourished ground representing the Virgin (crowned) and Child, throned on a yellow seat set on a green floor. There is also a partial border of line and leaf work.
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.
Script:
Written in a large upright book hand by a single scribe
Data Source(s):
Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
Subject(s):
Death
Abstract:
Mortuary roll made at the Abbey of Foret (now Voorst) for Elizabeth Sconincx, 17th abbess, in 1458-59.
Format:
Roll
Material:
Parchment.
Provenance:
Lot 129 in the Ashburnham 'Appendix' Sale of 1st May 1899, where it was bought by James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford for £2 (CLL, Ap.-June 1899, nos. 585, 592; CLI, 1899-1900, no. 427).
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