Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 94

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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • English MS 94
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Date
  • 15th Century
Language
  • Middle English
  • Latin
Title
  • Meditations on the Life of Christ and other 15th-century manuscripts (Meditatione Vitae Christi | Mirror of the life of Christ)
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    168 folios(i+168+i) Leaf height: 362 mm, width: 240 mm.
    Acquisition:

    Purchased by Gordon Duff for the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers Bull & Auvache for £50 in January 1894.


    Script:
    Written in short-r anglicana formata
    Subject(s):
    Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500; Christianity; Religion
    Abstract:

    The volume contains six different manuscripts: Bonaventura's Life of Christ, translated by Nicholas Love;
    The Boke of the Craft of Dyinge;
    A tretyse of gostely bataile right devoute;
    A lytil shorte tretyce that telleth howe there were vi masters assembled togedir, etc.;
    Nota de paciencia infirmitatis (in Latin);
    The xii prophetis of tribulacioun


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchment
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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